i have posted some new photos of what my tank looks like now, i had to do some rearainging of plants and the driftwood centerpiece, i hope you like em, the links to the photos are bellow,

http://www.ratemyfishtank.com/friendemail.php/17366
http://www.ratemyfishtank.com/friendemail.php/17365

ps, don't be afraid to leave comments.

is it the picture or do you have a "day and night" side set up goin on in there? ...looks real sharp either way........day/night........tank would be an interesting consept in a salt system as different things like different light....would give em all a chance to be viewed at most anytime .......

oh the fifty five gal is going to be a salt setup, duh i forgot to add that in my reply.

I like the change in driftwood position. What do you think of making a virtual stream-bed on the right side of the wood and have the grass field you were talking about border the bare stream-bed. Sorry if I'm being too critical or forward. That's probably why I don't have a huge pile of friends. The ones I do have are very close though. I'm trying to do something like this with my new planted tank and it'll be kind of like a cross section of a jungle canyon/valley with virtual stream-bed in the middle, balanced with the obtrusiveness of the wood. Water as it meanders through a valley often is eroding at something like tree roots or rock at one side, and the other side of the stream there is a small area of grass (the inside of a meander) and next to that there is the "jungle" again, growing in from where the stream many years before had once been.
To me a planted tank is like a forest in miniature, and having elements like rocks, wood, virtual stream-bed(element of water), etc, covers the range in elements that Japanese gardens are made up with. Peter