Thanks for the answers Paul! Hopefully some of the others will chime in as well about the plants and the background. I'm useing the Leca/peat/sphagnum combo in my dart tank right now but i've found that, at least the way I set up this tank, it is quite hard to do maintenance on cause I can't easily get to the water in the leca layer. Then again I don't have a water feature so that doesn't help.

How does Tightbond hold up submerged?