Sorry to answer this so late shade2dope. I'm going to get a tank and buy everything else seperately. I am still researching the filters and such for a 75 gallon tank. I would LOVE to have sand as a substrate not only because I love how it looks but also because I want to get plenty of corycats and I have heard that the softer substrate is somewhat better for them. I am not sure if that would be too hard to take care of as far as water changes and cleaning the bottom of the tank so still thinking about it. I am going to have some live plants in the tank also. I currently have low light plants in my Betta tank,java fern, anacharis and wisteria, and so far they have been very easy to take care of. I am going to plant the trimmings from them in a small tank to grow them out and then transfer them to my large tank whenever I do get it. Still thinking about the type of decorations. I don't want too much because I am really going to try to have it as natural looking as I can. I know for sure that I want a nice piece of driftwood and I am going to let my son and daughter each pick out something they like to put in there. I have made it clear that it has to be something tasteful and not gaudy
My husband has always wanted a sunken ship in whatever aquarium we have so there will be one in there of course
I just don't want to have too much going on in there to take away from the beauty of the fish.
As you can see, I have been thinking about a million and one things in my head in regards to my "dream" aquarium
And the list keeps getting longer and longer!