Sounds like a wonderful tank! I have thought of setting up a tank sometime with lowered water level, emergent plants, some amphibeans, etc....kind of a more subdued take off on my teenaged dream of a sunken tropical living room--kind of a combo conservatory/aquarium/terrarium sort of a thing....somehow I never got the entusiasm from my family I'd need, to say nothing of the concrete reinforcements in my old farmhouse, to pull it off....ah, it's good to dream.
Harriett