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Originally Posted by Laith

In addition to the sites and info already mentioned, this is a good starting article: http://www.aquatic-plants.org/articl.../01_intro.html

The best thing you can do now is read, read, read...

The search function on this site is your friend!

Speaking as someone fairly new to the hobby I'd have to add to Laith's advice to verify, verify, verify.......... what you read. There is still a lot of info out there that is unreliable so part of the work is reading and another part is sorting out all the different theories. The article Laith refers to is a fairly good one.

As for me I wish someone had told me to start out as Trena recommended up above - medium light and non CO2. I also wish I had known that most of the plant guides which recommend CO2 and high light for every other plant are dead wrong. Just as examples riccia and glosso are both thriving in my tanks and I've yet to see a guide that doesn't recommend CO2 and high light for both. The one down side to non CO2 for me so far is the limited number of red plants but I'm still working on that one. I'm also hopeful that the non Co2 category of the APC aquascaping contest will be an inspiration.

Good luck, Bill