so I guess 3rd times a charm the organic clay and ada with soil master gave a high ammonia jump in the 55g. so I took it out cleaned up my tank and hopefully 3rd time will be the charm.
going to use aquarium silicone to keep the branches down and from floating to the top. will use soil master select because I know it works, and I will use what I know works..
desided on a different placement of the driftwood branches.
the driftwood is cypress or manitiia(spelling?).
I'm going with this aqua-scape

and found more inspiration from tom's 180g tank.