I like that tank, should look great when your done.
You may want to consider building all that out of some lighter weight material and then just 'surfacing' it with rock to keep the overall weight down.
I'm not really sure what to recommend fish wise. Most of my comments are just regurgitation of my readings for the short time I have actually been digging deeper into this hobby and I am not yet familiar with many of the different species available.
I like my angels and they are very peaceful, but they can get aggressive and I am unsure how they would behave in a larger group. You may be able to get a school of them going, but I am not sure.
I really don't know of any mid-level fish that get larger that aren't aggressive. Maybe Discus, but I know next to nothing about them. I have heard silver dollars mentioned as larger fish, but again, I don't know anything about them.
Your definitely going to want to go to some sort of canister filter. I would really not worry about flow. Many of these fish come from rivers, and while they may be very lazy rivers, they are not unfamiliar with moving water.
Maybe send s13 a pm. He works for a tank cleaning/maintenance company so he see lots of larger tanks. Maybe he can give some input on filter solutions in your size range.
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