Here's my tank, and I dont like it. Suggestions welcomed.

I dunno, I like the set up. Let's see... if it were me though, I might do something different with the wood but I see as it may be some kind of comfort structure for the fish..... maybe lie it down in the center of the tank toward the front?

HEY!!!!!!!!!!!!!! that sencond pic down looks like my unknown cichlid a little! What kind of fish is that?????? and your tank looks really, really nice!

Mabey turn that red rock a bit. From this photo, left side to front, right side to back. This will give more of an open space in the middle. And add a plant or two to the right side. You don't really need to do either of those, as the tank looks really good as is, but those are just suguestions. Sometime little 1" changes can make a big difference in the way things look.

I would go with some taller plants on the sides, and maybe replace the wood with a piece a little sturdier and more textured. wood with character. possibly a couple more large smooth stones to replace that element of "roundness" that will be lost with a different pice of wood. your plants seem to be anchored to it nicely though, hopefully you could do the same thing with another piece.

I like the set up. On the side, you mayw ant to buy those plasticwalls with holes. it provides excellent resting place for smaller fish given that it is only 40G. If you could build a high ridge in the middle. It also will please the fish as they will swim up and feel more space.

Think of your tank as a photograph. In photography we use something called the rule of 1/3s. Draw two horizontal and two vertical lines so that your tank is split into 9 sections (in your mind of course). Along these lines and where they intersect are the focal points. Right now your tank has no focal point. The structure on the bottom forms a flat line and the whole top of the tank is devoid of anything.

If it were my tank, I would remove the red rocks all togther (they clash and aren't biotope appropriate IMO). I would replace them with more white rocks and stack them in a triange along one of the vertical lines I was talking about (you could also use the red rocks as a base and partially hide thme behind the existing rocks). Make it so that it reaches almost to the surface. Now the reef has become your focal point and you've opened up the left side for the driftwood. It will create the feeling of being on the edge of two different biotopes (fallen tree / reef) and give the tank more heterogeneity without looking jumbled. Just my humble opinion as an amatuer photographer. You'd be amazed how much better your pictures would look if you just move the subject to one side of the frame.

that's nice processing, mooman I'll bet you lots will learn from it.... I sure did!

The tank is nice...I agree with Moo...I would probably not use the red rock...in my 90g mbuna tank, i used lacy lava rock, fairly dark, stacked with lots of "caves"...mine too has a black background and a lite colored substrate...

Looks OK to me, but "beauty is in the eye of the beholder".

You have 3-4 different colors rocks in your tank. I would get all the same so tank looks more uniform.