1. My tank is the AR620T, so the lighting is attached in a hood. Not standard long singular bulbs ( so I cant change to marine lights or T3's or whatever). They are standard fish lights. The lights run for 8-10 hours a day. Its also in the lounge but the blinds are closed next to it to prevent direct sunlight.
2. I don't use any fertilisers. I used Flourish for a while but my carbon in my filter zapped it all out. So I took out the carbon and now there is just PhosZorb, foam and ceramic noodles in the filter. In my cupboard I have AquaPlus and Cycle, B-Clear, P-Clear, White-Spot Cure(not that I have ever had white spot, but it was just incase). And Furan.
3. My tank is 130L. I do a 25% water change every 2 to 3 weeks. And give the glass/ornaments a good scrubbing. Then if I have time I let them dry to kill the algae completely (depending on how bad it is). Then rinse them before putting them back in. My tank has been pretty good. The algae doesnt bloom in the water. Just attaches itself to ornaments. And I only feed my bottom feeders twice a week to encourage them to eat the algae.
4. I orginally started with Tiger Lotus, Cabomba, and a mixture of swords. Then added a couple of grasses (which died), and have one flax-like grass still surviving (just). I don't know what it is. Looks kind of like a japanese rush but not the right colour for a japanese rush. I also have java fern
All my plants have been munch up and killed by my fish - even though I feed them spirulina and now all my plants look like twiggy-broken-leaf-horrible things. (So I put an advert to buy plants on trade and exchange forum). So I got that funny grass-japanese thing. And Java fern. Thats pretty much what has survived.....
5. Its a community tank:
Schools:
black neon tetra (5)
neon tetra (4)
albino prescillia tetra.(2)
Tiger Barb (3)
Rosy Barb (1)
Bottom Feeder Fish:
Albino Cory (1)
Goldspot Pleco (1)
Black Line Flying Foxes (3)
Straita Loachs (3) - However I just cleaned my tank and can't find them anywhere :-?
Other Fish:
Kissing Gourami (2)
Like I mentioned before. I am trying to get more plants to fill it up with as its looking pretty scraggy at the moment.