Stunning - to think you thought of giving up! How tall will that HC get? I've considered putting some in my tank when I re-do it but I don't want anything too tall? Could I just trim it to keep it at a certain height?
HC can get to over 3 inches tall if you let it but its best to keep it trimmed to about 1cm deep otherwise it will eventually uproot and you'll have a floating carpet lol, mine looks deep but its where its growing up the bank is all, its about an inch at the deepest, going with glosso for behind it to have a carpet mix, thank you for the kind comment mate.
Few new pic's, added some finer grain florabase to bank up the back a little and some glosso to add a different carpet to the rear so with time it should be sorted. Also there's some new glassware, the U shaped inlet for CO2 and DC.