very touching everyone,it honestly means a lot. the plan now is to take the reaming 10 fish (embers and silver tip) to MA. what ottos and shrimp i have go to mums tank. ballon ram survived

SAE'E didnt.
red eyd did, and there munching on dead fish.
once there gone, i'll take the thing apart. salvage what i can plant wise, i may set up my other 60, not sure about that one yet. i know there's a load of vultures out there waiting to pick at my bones, but please hang fire on asking for my spare plants. they will become available eventually.
the real bummer is the fact all my good landscape rock is in the MA scape. i could of made an absolute great iwagumi with all the stone i have. that's out the window
just looking through Nature Aquarium book 1 gives me ideas every time i look at it and 1 in particular where he uses NO hard scape....... the thought lingers in my head now.
I'm forgetting about IAPLC now, competition just kills the passion inside me. i got to do this for me..... 8)