New tank what can I add?

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I am setting up a new 20L as soon as I get the stand made for it in the next week or so. It will be planted with Red Cherry Shimp as the colony is growing.
It will be a 20L with a 55watt DIY from A&H retro fitted into a 30" plastic light hood that came with my 29gal over a glass top. It will have Flourite for the substrate and driftwood. For filtration I think I will be using a sponge filter (currently in a heavy planted ghost shrimp tank) and moving over a small PF that is only for up to 3 gal but it has been running on their (RCS) current tank so would have good bacteria in it.
Right now I only have Najas grass, java moss, frogbit floating on the top and a couple of Algea balls. I also have driftwood with java moss and java fern attached to it that the RCS love to climb all over. I dose Flourish every week. And do 15% wc everyweek with a mix of tap and RO using Prime to condition it.
What sort of plants could I add to this new setup that would thrive? I would like to keep away from CO2 if possible due to inexperience. Would I need to use anything other than Flourish? I have to stay away from copper because of the RCS. PH stays around 7.2 right now in all my tanks.
Thanks in advance for any idea's.
 
with that setup, id say the sky's the limit, especially with a 20L... your substrate is nearer the light than most tank sizes.

i'd recommend some cryptocoryne species... there fairly common and should thrive in your setup. maybe some swords (Echchinodorus) for the backround, although some species will push up to the top.

ludwigia
annubias
sagittaria (great foreground species)

i really like hydrocotyle species, but have never had the light to let it thrive

heres a great sight for browsing

Tropica.com
http://www.tropica.com/default.asp

good luck, i'm a little green with envy
 
Anubias is great, wisteria, amazon sword.
Anachris and ludwigia are pretty but they are stem plants, not bushes, so they come unplanted very often. anachris isn't so bad when it pulls up but the ludwigia can become very messy.
If you don't want to do CO2, I use Florish Excel. I am not familiar with CO2 either so I use Excel. It does the trick. I also have some wierd bulb plant. I don't know what it is.

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