Hmmm, let's see....plecs are around 100 each, then the petricola....dunno what they are worth, the filter is an Emperor 280 and an Ebo-jager 150 and then the tank is a bowfront and was about 100 or something like that...so it's probably around a 500 dollar 7 gallon with the wood and all. ) Needless to say, I really like this tank.
Lovely. Wow, no offence but I could never see spending that much money on a tank unless I was rich. You must be rich! Anyway, I got my 28gallon bow-front for free. My uncle bought for next to nothing at a garage sale. Wish I could post pictures of it but my digital camera won't upload pics onto the computer. Have to take it back. But again, your tank is lovely.
Yeah, that tank proves that less can be more in an aquascape - I'd enter that in the AGA contest. I think the reason everyone likes it so much is because the split in the wood where the plants are poking up is at optical center. Any tank with a well-defined centerpiece at optical center has the potential to look good. My current nice tank (My 10 gallon) is using optical center; but instead of having plants there it will be the only spot that you can see to the back of the tank.