thks all for sticking with me thru my ordeals.
funny you all think these look good - their true nicer colors were not captured, hope to post more this weekend.
as for the diatom or brown algae bloom, I had just did 90% w/c & scrubbed the tank/accessories as well as all the leaves, but it has returned.
also, now I must consider cleaning my filters more often as I have planaria (those pesty white worms). the intermittent partial w/c is not good enough - the major w/c does wonders.
so I think cuz I alternate cleaning my AC110's, the one left untouched develops the planaria & spits them back into the tank.
as for the cosmo glasses - I wanted to have plants but didn't want to deal with gravel substrate & all the debris it collects & then to vac vac vac it thru. cuz, as I have some minimal partial gravel coverage in my angel tank, I can see how much poop is accumulated. so can't deal with that in my discus tank.
so I had these glasses leftover from owning my sushi restaurant & they were just sitting there looking pretty out of water, thought let's try them in water. this way I still get to maintain bare bottom tank. as for cleaning the gravel I don't. hoping what falls in will be fertilizer for the plants. some plants doing good now, but some are not.
thks all again.