I bought the tank from a lady who had moved and let someone else keep the tank, and she decided she couldn't take it back and the guy who was babysitting the tank never cleaned it, 30 long, planted into substrate of soil mix. It was completely neglected 2-3 inches of mulm, all green glass from tons of algae, all the plants were 1/2 dead, with the decaying plant matter piled high around them. Had duck weed on top too.
After cleaning through the sediment and dead plant materials, all the tank the water would stay nice and clear but the mulm gunk would sort of come out of the ground, and just hang there. There were 5 nice Java ferns sort of planted, tucked in and rooted down, but as I cleaned the tank over and over, more than 8 times, it never stopped sifting up and then I found out I had an allergy to blood worms too, and that tank was bothering by allergies, evidently left over blood worm scum left in the bottom so my friend bought it from me and is redoing it to black Diamond or reg blasting sand.
I only had the tank for two months.
I have 5 tiny babies I took out and saved from the mess that I had. Now they are resting with a nano sword and rooted Wisteria I also took out of there in a little 1/2 "goldfish" bowl, waiting to get planted and their light is diffused, not direct sunlight right now.
I am putting up a new to me 37 gal JEBO tank this week end, and get it cycling, I have a nice full filter pad to seed with, and I want to plant the plants, I will be putting the Java Ferns on rocks, I only have one driftwood and it has a JF.
I posted a thread in Equipment about the JEBO and the light and what I might need.
It has a hood with two switches two lights, one broke in transit so I will have 1 Blue Achidnid sorry don't know spelling, 10000K 55W, Mumma replied and ask me about it I couldn't answer very well, but it has a 4 prong two light, I posted a link so you can see what it looks like. Jebo says you need half blue and half of their white light out put for a planted tank. I think it may be exclusive bulb base, I have no experience with planted tank lighting. Please check it out and help me if you can, thanks! I will buy the other bulb, order next week.