Thanks for all the kind comments
and it looks like i have a new tank, lol for FREE my dads friend at work has just upgraded his tank to a £900 hand built special tank with 1inch thick glass bottom and a hand made cabinet 5ftX2ftX2ft, so his old 3ft is up for grabs...for free!! so i have my name slapped on it, aparantly his 3ft has a thick glass bottom as well because he keeps chiclids and had a lot of rocks etc so it all sounds good to me!