mini planted tank

So, I just completed the planting of my 10 gallon tank for my bedroom, anyone have suggestions on how to make sure the baby tears get rooted correctly as a carpet plant let me know! The previous setup crashed due to algea pretty quickly, I think due to not having enough plants in there from the...

After posting on my other forums, I thought "Hey, what's teh best place to ask about a planted tank? Duh! Plantedtank.net." So here it is: I'm going to set up a low maintenance, low tech planted-only 2.5 gallon mini bow at work. I'm planning to have a black substrate (either Flourite black sand...