Planted tank one year later...

[Randa]

I started my planted tank a little over one year ago. I had a small Anubis and Amazon sword in pool filter sand. I upgraded to flora max and added 40+ stems of various low/med light plants to see how it would go.

Here is right after substrate change


Then after added the additional plants.
Included were:
1 Anubias (Anubias lanceolata)

1 Red Amazon Sword

2 Amazon Swords (Echinodorus argentinensis)

4 red Crypt walkeri

5 stems of Egeria (Anacharis) densa

8 stems of Bacopa monnierii

4 stems of Narrow Leaf Hygrophila

5 stems of Ludwigia repens

5 stems of Hygrophila lancea

10 stems of Rotala indica


And this is now:



(Lighting used is
The National Geographic 30" Deluxe Programmable LED Aquarium Light on for around 5 hours each day)
I have some root tabs used on occasion as well.


I clearly have a bit of algae and lost some plants but it's not looking too bad.
I'm not sure if the plant loss is due to lighting, lack of Co2 or ferts and parameters. Any insight would be appreciated.

 

[TMaier]

Looks nice!

 

[Barliman]

You've done well with it. :thumbs:

I don't think any of your plants demand high light or CO2... except maybe the rotala? So it may be the plants that failed were outcompeted for the nutrients they needed. Regardless, it looks like you've done fine job.