Odly enough just going and buying whatever plant I need to finish my aquascape has helped me, I have a free peice of javafern mat, 2 by 2 that is slowly recovering, about 20 wallmart bulbs, mostly lillys and apongeton, and java moss, and a MLP that is giving me h***. oh some vallls, next when I upgrade lighing I am going to get a tiger lotus. I also have plant substrate, and dose Kent plant and kent plant pro, twice a week. i'm in the procces of finding something that will poop to give the tank more TRATES reads 0 all the time. because 25 shrimp is like 1 guppy.
I added all after the cycle, and so far are growing pretty good, but I need more bio load, hoping that these srimp will breed soon...
and I have a freak snail that only comes out at night and likes to walk around on the water surface picking things up that I cant see hes so funny right now he is about 1\4 of an inch and doesn't go after plants.