3 gallon eclipse

saram521

saram521

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I have the all-in-one eclipse three gallon system, and would like to have some sort of plant in it. I read on the marineland website (who makes the aquarium I have) that the bulb for my system is a 6 watt T5. I know that it may not be much, but was wondering if I could at least grow a plant like wysteria, anacharis, java moss, or some sort of low light plant without having a significant algae problem (a little algae is tolerable). Any advice would be appreciated :)
 
I grow a lot of anubias nana in mine. Any floating plant should be close enough to the bulb to do all right.
 
I don't connect algae growth with planted tanks in general, but I know that when you have extremely slow growing plants and not enough light, algae can outcompete the plants for nutrients and the like. It has happened to me in my 46 bowfront where I had only anubias, java fern, crypt spiralis, and crypt wendtii. I only have about 1.7 watts of light per gallon for that tank, and most of the plants were getting covered in fuzzy grey algae (black beard I guessed), not to mention hair algae and some other common green algae that is very small (don't know the name).
 
I have that exact tank and have had very good luck with a Crypti Wendtti(sp?) and a Microsword. Both are outgrowing the tank. I had some bba issues but I added Excel and that went away. Unfortuntely it also killed an Anarchis that had been thriving up until that point. I have a betta, a rummy nose tetra, an Oto, and 2 mystery snails so the bio load is very high. I also keep the lights on over 12 hours a day so keep all this in consideration. My substrate is flourite.
 
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