As promised... here are some pictures. This is my 70 gallon, high light, CO2 injected tank... after I came back from a 3 week holiday. I've been meaning to replace a lot of my stem plants with slower growers for the past year, but I never got around to it. As you can see, the stem plants have grown tall enough to provide some decent surface cover, but at a price... it also takes up a lot of room, whereas floating plants do not.
HTH
-Richer