Gabriel3303
Aquarium Advice Activist
Everything online is so back an forth on this plant anyone have good or bad luck with it ?
K im only adding excel right now but was gonna get leaf zone soon an start using it too
Lighting and fertilizers make all the difference in the world. I've had good and bad experiences- noticed my fluval spec 5 did really well with eco complete substrate and liquid ferts and flourish tabs for micro swords, crypt Wendtii 'tropical'... Worst failure I've had was in a betta bow 5 with fluorite mixed with river sand and an incandescent colormax replacement bulb.... Hope that helps a little with your research
Incandescent bulbs are never good for growing plants. You always want to stick to full-spectrum lighting.
The API Leaf Zone is good but also using Seachems Flourish Comprehensive along with the Leaf Zone will give you a much better all around fertilizer dosing. My Micro Swords were always slow growers even in a higher light tank so be patient. Also if you get a few plants the split them into 1/2" to 1" sections and plant each section in a checkerboard pattern you can get an area to fill in a tad bit faster. It's still slow but I found doing this yielded better results.