wrote:
Limited plant choice, smaller leaves, much slower growth, a big dose
of patience, something lacking in 95% of aquarist, some fiddling to
balance things right. Good deep substrate, some floating plants etc.

Here's my 1 watt per gallon, non CO2 injected tank:
http://home.austin.rr.com/lunamayaxoxo/fish/tank1.jpg
Lush growth in most plants, to the point that some require weekly pruning.
Substrate is gravel mixed with a bag of fluorite. I add Fluorish, Fluorish
Excel, and Fluorish Iron every week (if I remember).

The moral of the story is, YMMV.

--
Victor M. Martinez

http://www.che.utexas.edu/~martiv