I've been able to do this, mostly by accident, in a 29 and a 40 gallon tank.
The 29 gallon uses a cheap hood I refitted to take a pair of T8 fluorescents and uses some Profile substrate that I got at Home Depot on clearance at the end of summer a few years back.
The 40 gallon has a T5 fixtures that I bought from Big Al's online, and uses cheap tube sand from the hardware store. I like it because it has a nice range of grains, from very fine to small pebbles about 3mm across.
The tanks are both planted and have shrimp and trumpet snails with a variety of community fish. I don't add any supplements and the plants grow well, maybe not at a record setting pace, but I do have to prune them regularly.
I change about 25% of the water ever week to10 days, depending on my work schedule, and algae is easily controlled by the bristlenose I have in each tank (only one in each), and I scrape/scrub every 3 months at most.
Paul
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