Update! After nicely planting everything, my wife decides she wants a new substrate, something less white, and in smaller grain... Yippiee!
So like a bandaid i pulled it off quick. Got new substrate from IPU (big suprise on the store
) She chose their bulk darker gravel. I then got home and Uprooted everything, then tried to find the assassin snails. Only found one.... Moved her driftwood to my tank, figured my cleanup crew can have a treat while i work on her tank.
All the old substrate was scooped out and sifted through for assassin snails, no luck, 3 missing so far, Peak over at her driftwood and it had 4 cherry shrimps, 9 amano shrimp, 6 otocs and my bristlenose eating away in my tank, lol.
I take a break to put the kids to bed and turn the filter on so the prefilter gets out a lot of the debris.
Then the fun begins, replanting it... I hate planting glosso and here i was doing it again. The advantage with the smaller grain gravel is i can use my fert sticks again without worrying about extra nitrates or carbonates being added outside of my ei regiment.
Needless to say, its done! yay! After i took the wood out, i found an assassin snail in my tank the next day, so i moved it back to its home, there may be more though, we'll see.
first is a pic of the first guppy baby to colour, i suspect its a gupler but we shall see.
lastly, the new scape, still needs the back left corner to grow out. left room for another plant right in the middle, thinking a red flame or something