First of all looking at the healthy super aquascaped tanks around the world I would like to say that I don't see only nicely aquascaped tanks but I tend to separate the tanks this days into 2 categories the "fern" tanks as I call them compromised of crypts, ferns, echinodorus some grasses, and some mosses. And the difficult plants tanks, with "difficult" to grow plants. The second type of tank was always the real challenge and the wonder for me. Now this days being able to grow most of them myself I really wonder do lots of guys that have this tanks lie to us? I know Tom has wondered and concluded in the past that some of this plants just won't grow with this near 0 pm NO3, PO4 and the rest tanks. Still this kind of data has been pretty confusing and have let to lots of failures for lots of hobbyists trying to imitate this conditions. The only factor that could be involved with this low column conditions and still growing difficult plants can only be rich substrate but this won't last long and usually brings other troubles with it initially and after 2 years or so substrate depletes and you will still have to revert to the column way. So do they lie to us or they do magic?
Freemann
Freemann