since it was my first npt i was pretty much learning as i go. i made a series of mistakes some my fault some not. the plants i ordered from aquariumplants.com arrived 6 days, even though i paid for 2 day delivery. talk about getting screwed over. so the tank was set up with some of my old palnts. when the plants that i ordered finally arrived. i planted them but it kicked up so much soil that i had to add more top gravel to prevent the soil from seeping into the tank. this caused the soil to be 2 inches deep with the top gravel to be another 2 inches. i then used RO water because the tap water here i pretty high. that migt've caused some nutrient deficiency. bc the most of the plants weren't growing too good. the amazon swords had brownish, yellowish leaves with hole in them. the ludwigia and bacopa moneri were dying. i kept the lights on to long. basically the only thing thriving were the tiger lotus and water sprite and a lot of algae.
so i did some researched and posted a lot of questions to find some answers. thank you to all who have taken their time to answer my questions. it was a big help. hopefully things will be better this time around now that i am armed with more knowledge about NPT
