72 Gallon Plant Conversion

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-So I thought I'd post a thread on here of my exploration into the world of the planted aquarium. Any advice is very welcome because although I have been reading up as much as I can about the parameters of the planted tank I am still in that "shock" phase at how much thought really goes into maintining a planted aquarium.
-Today I picked up all of the needed supplies except for Excel Flourish which I will be getting after I actually set everything up.
The Tank being converted:
72 Gallon Bowfront Oak Trim Aquarium
The Inhabitants:
7 Painted Tetras
5 Tiger Barbs
2 Bleeding Heart Tetras
2 Bala Shark
1 Baby Sen. Bichir
1 Black Ghost Knife Fish
1 Emerald Corycat
-I will document most steps that I take which will not be that many because I won't be using any type of CO2 diffusion system and the only thing DIY are the risers for the lights.

List of Conversion Supplies:
1 Shop Light
2 Phillips 48", 40 Watt Planted Aquarium Light Bulbs
1 Bag of Eco-Complete
1 50lb. Bag of Quickcrete Gravel
1 Expensive piece of driftwood
5 Plants- 2 Anubias, 1 Aqua Fern, 1 Peacock Fern & 1 Wysteria
1 Piece of Wood f/m my Basement which I cut into two Pieces and stained
 
click the box that looks like a montain with a circle in the top, right now mines next to a globe

the piece of wood you cut and stained, you put that inside your tank?
 
thanks for the help! and sorry about the confusion. I used the pieces of wood to raise the lights off of the aquarium so they weren't flush with the tank.
heres my supplies so far...
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So it took me a while but I finally have the conversion complete. The following pics show the tank partially emptied (~60%) into gas cans and the complete conversion after the substrate swap, addition of driftwood + plants, and the new light set up.
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