[Rainbo]

With the plants you mentioned you can get away with the light you have on your tank, the only one I'm wondering about is the Amazon Sword. That one likes medium to strong light, but will survive in lower light. The light on your tank looks low to medium.

If you want the plants to really grow well then changing out your light is going to be needed, and unfortunately you'll probably have to change the hood out on your tank to get the light to work with the tank. I'd go with the Aqueon VeraTop, it's a glass canopy and the back has a plastic piece that can be cut to fit your equipment. I just set my lights on top of the canopy as I find that easiest for me. For lights the Finnex is a good one, and the stingray should work with the plants that you have, you can also go with the finnex planted light if you are planning on getting into plants that like a strong light. That's if you are set on the Finnex brand. Right now I'm using the Nicrew lights, they are a medium brightness light, and my plants seem to grow well under them, and the light is cheaper then the Finnex. I have cryps, repens, ruffled amazon, water wisteria, anacharis, and anubias in my tanks.

All of the plants you mentioned, except for the Amazon Sword, are water column feeders and are going to need a liquid fertilizer. I'm not sure if you know aor not, but Seachem Excel is basically just carbon, it's not a liquid fertilizer. The only reason I know is because I got totally confused and ended up researching whether I should get it or the regular Seachem Flourish. Surprise, surprise, it's best to get both but if only getting one go with the Flourish because that one is the liquid fertilizer. I ended up getting both.

For the Amazon Sword you are going to need to get root tabs sooner or later because it will deplete the substrate of nutrient, it also needs iron to do well.

 

[Rainbo]

You're welcome! I'm glad I could help :-D I know that when I started out a year or two ago I was asking just about all the questions you are, and I'm still learning. Just this past month I was researching the Seachem Excel and Flourish because in the past I only bothered with root tabs LOL. I was honestly thinking I would only need one or the other and just going by the name I figured it would be Excel.

I have the second light you listed, but I do not have the particular size you would need. One of mine is bigger, 30-36", but no longer listed on the page, and that's the one I love. The other one is the smaller 12-16", and it is dim, that size I don't like and would not recommend. I honestly don't know how bright the 20-24" light would be, but according to the reviews it's a good, bright, light.

 

[Rainbo]

I'm glad I could help!

I just do fish in cycles, so far it's worked well for me and my boys, the trick is to keep an eye on the ammonia and nitrite, don't let them get above .25ppm, and keep up with the water changes. Speaking of which I need to go test the water and do a water change on my newest boy who's tank is cycling.