Sat and looked at it with my head in my hands and tears in my eyes (and there isn't even any water in there yet lol).
What seemed like a nice easy set up has degenerated into me being too perfectionist (You sure you want that there? When its full of water and fish and plants its too late to change it then!!).
Problems with canister filter (Eheim tank with cut outs at the back for hoses but mine have clamps and have nothing to grip to). Now have many extended suckers to clamp them buggers down!!
Queued for an hour and a half today to get the background that I forgot after queuing for two hours on Saturday
Deliberating about bogwood placement and when i tire of that driving myself crazy with researching online what are ABSOLUTELY the best plants/mosses/cleaners/tankmates for me.
Anyway, hello from a new member and I may have something to post about my tank in the next month or so
To be fair, I am not in a hurry as I want it right first time.
Aim to have wood and water in place by this weekend, have plants in place by the weekend after and will then put a few tetras and cleaners in to start the biological filtration going.
Then will see how the plants are doing and if they are growing in OK give it another couple to three weeks before I decide on which supplier to get the fish from
Triumph-Rat - Do not worry yourself to tears. You can change your awesome tank anytime when you determine the perfect next plant, moss, stone or DW.
Think, Love your tank, not have a perfect tank.
There are variables for different water parameters and fish and whether you use CO2 and which lights, etc. So perfect may not be the same from one tank to another.
Unless this tank is intended to be entered in an international competition there will not be a "perfect" tank.
Perfection defined is also different to different people. Relax. Enjoy the building process and the staging and making a list (if you like lists) of goals or objectives. What other people love doesn't always make the perfect tank. It is what you love.
Another reason people have more than one tank, because sometimes one tank can't fulfill all you love.
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Several days ago I tried to save the latest batch of Cory Cat eggs. The Guppies were going crazy finding eggs to eat like an Easter egg hunt.
The Cories laid eggs on appx. 5 leaves and on about 6 different spots (maybe trying to foil the dim Guppies).
As I tried a couple ways to remove the Cory eggs, I was being attacked by voracious Guppies, mostly getting nipped by the big females!!! The Guppies went crazy for the eggs which were lost to the current.
It looks like the saved eggs are mostly white. Air bubbler and changing water every other day.
Went to the farther away lfs looking for some stones and maybe fancy Goldfish and Ember Tetras and Chili Rasboras... just checking on what was available.
They were out of stock on baby Brine shrimp (frozen). I bought Cyclops and a pack of Rotifers.
None of the fish I was checking on.
Got a couple Dragon / Ohko stones.
Been considering the possibility of making the 72G a fancy Goldfish tank. I was looking at it and thinking that it is not at the potential and happiness factor which I would wish for. (light heartedly commenting, but really a little twinging of anxiety issues every time I see toooooo many Guppies in there.)
No one wants them!
(sorry in advance if this bothers anyone) Had been considering which bigger fish could live in there to nibble on some tiny fry to limit the population. But I will work a little harder and lower the prices locally to find them homes.
Decided maybe a different direction would be a better, the fancy GF. I have a super huge amount of filtration in that tank and it seems it would be great. Need to change the substrate though, and I was going to change half the substrate for the Cories anyway!
Probably 100, they were everywhere in the Hornwort. Every time I looked around a bunch of it(floating at the top) there were more, and more! 
