Hard-to-Grow Aquatic Plants Here are some tips for growing
difficult aquatic plants. Q. I have an aquarium that was
consistently giving me problems with disease and algae. I would
treat the aquarium with chemicals, and everything would get
better. As soon as I quit treating it, everything would get
worse. While researching how to solve the problem, someone told
me to put live plants in the aquarium. For the last year and a
half, the aquarium has been free of diseases, algae blooms and
chemicals. I have not lost any fish since I put in the aquatic
plants. This has caused me to research live plants. I'm trying
to find out what the aquarium setup is for plants that would be
classified as hard to grow or requiring very bright light (i.e.
substrate, aquarium size, lighting, etc.). A. Someone could
write a whole book on the different ways to set up planted
aquariums. I'll try to be briefer with some rules of thumb.
Plenty of different methods work, though some people seem to
have greater success with one or another