Thank you all for the great comments and suggestions, I really appreciate it!
The stand is made from solid oak and finished with natural danish oil and natural polyeurathane (weighs in at 442lbs with the tank installed dry, about 2000lbs fully up and running. When designing this tank, the plan was to stay "clean" for all viewing angles, in other words, no equipment would be visible on the dispay.
The plastic plants are just temporary, I'm selectively buying large "base" live rock from the LFS (not much to choose from at this time), eventually I will have about 200lbs of live rock on display.
The lighting is by Aqualight, one 24" and one 48" double lamp fixtures with two each 65 watt actinic 03 blue and two each 65 watt 10,000k daylight straight pin compact fluorescent lamps.
I'm running the bubbler until I get my skimmer plumbed in, should be history by next Tuesday. The big white pvc tube is the temporary water pickup. I'm looking for a source for clear pvc that I can connect directly to the 1 inch plumbing system. see attached pic of the plumbing.
There is a clown trigger (aka "Spot"), Annularis angel (aka "Angel"), Niger Trigger (aka "Bubba"), Sailfin Tang (aka "Boomertang), and a Blue jaw trigger (aka "Kiki").
