hi, it is sooooooooo long since I have logged in it is embarrassing, tks for the offer of plants Jason, I did set up another tank last year, but this time I set it up slightly differently, I used much heavier branching to avoid them breaking ,bending and cracking as the plants grew, the tank substrate is silica sand, the return flow from the external filter is sent directly back into the water in one corner to illiminate any splashing, the only time there is splashing onto the plants is when i am doing a water change and the tank is fed nothing other than the inhabitants waste and what is delivered via the fresh water changes as the animals living in it would be pretty sensitive to any nutrients added, it is home to a reverse trio of Pipa pipa that have been doing pretty well, growing steadily since i picked them up, fingers crossed and hoping that they will decide to breed in the future, here is a picture of the tank