OK guys i have updates with my rescape! first off things didn't go as planned i hurt myself while working on the tank pulled my groin muscle. there were many other obstacles i didn't anticipate. fist mistake i made was doing this mid work week. i worked a five hour shift the day of this adventure so was a little sore from that, i needed to finish this project rather quickly since i had to go to work the next morning. i was trying to hurry with the tank cleaning and tank water transfer to quickly and pulled my groin muscle right from the start i had 5 g buckets filled with slate rock and buckets filed with water and more buckets with plants and water. in my haste i grabbed one bucket of slate stone and a another with water in it and i felt a bolt of lightning from my groin area that didn't go away. happened with in the first two hours so that really limited my ability to move and work like i needed to. i did endure however! After i removed every thing from the tank except the fish i did i vacuum of my substrate. i then added 15 more pounds og fluorite black substrate then i put only one large piece of wood back in the tank and began replanting. my goal was to have all the tall stem plants in the very back of the tank and mid plants in the mid and short plants in the foreground. i did remove most of my Mayaca Fluviatilis it was taking over my tank. this plant was growing half a inch in a single day if not more! the reason i only put back one piece of wood and no rocks was i simply had to many plants the tank was over crowded with plants, wood, and rock. i have notice my tank is now much more open with swimming room for the fish, and they seem to love it, a lot of shoaling going on like never before. ok now some of the obstacles i Mintken'd the brazilin pennywort was damaged probably from shipping, the stocks were crimped almost broken you will see in the pics that out of the three pots i only have one stock with leaves all the others broke off. then the night mare the Monte Carlo witch is a very petite plant the roots were infused with the rockwool i could not separate the roots from the rockwool as you see in the pics i had 12 pots of Monte Carlo to began with and in the pics you see what i only got from those pots i lost about 7 pots worth of Monte Carlo pots. i do think that my lack of skill level did play apart to this. the roots did not bunch together instead were more like tiny tiny individual roots that was to small and fragile for me to separate from the rockwool. i just did the best i could! so after though, my tank is now more open less of a out of control jungle and i got to do what i love interacting with my water box of aquatic life. over all i didn't come close to what i was trying to accomplish but i am still happy because this is what i love to do. NOW THE PICS! the fist pic is just moments befor i sterted you can see most of the pots of new plants. the pics in between are of the penny wort breaking off and flouting in the water column. notice how little Monte Carlo is actually planted that was from 12 pots! the last pic is the finished tank.