I think one of the most important factors is temp. I see a lot of people failing with plants in their discus tank because they are not choosing plants that can handle the high temps. There is a good sticky here that lists plants that work in discus tanks. I actually purchased a "discus starter pack" from an online store. My plants flourished in my tank but got to be too much. I eventually removed them in favor of the discus growth. Was sad to see them go but much happier with growth and appearance of my fish.
Here's a pic of the plants I had. I was running co2 and dosing ferts7302016211059.jpg7302016205736.jpg
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Looks very nice Ryan, Ill take a look at that sticky for sure. I wont be adding anymore plants anytime soon see how what I got goes and pull the ones that die out. What size tank is that Ryan. Fish look nice and healthy
Ok that makes sense it came with mostly the 10,000k light I think when they stopped working they were changed out for natural light ones. Two of the lights have started to flicker over the weekend. I took all the globes out and sprayed them with contact cleaner and left it in my shed for a day. No luck its still doing it Cant see how to open the unit up either see if there is a starter to change.
Its model number L1800T5 cant find anything on google either
It’s the two smaller ones on the right side, seem to flicker in sync. The other two are fine. I swapped the globes fron this unit to the other one and this unit with different globes still flickered.
160G Discus Planter tank
Various African Ciclid tanks