Wow thanks for the comments!
I'm glad you all liked it...
So far the biggest challenge has been controlling the LIGHT. Because it is a bit more than just a fish tank; i'm actually using jungle-like landscape to provide shading, but the surrounding plants are still not fully grown, so it's not been too easy...
The temperature has behaved pretty well... ussualy constant on the high side (around 82F), its even a bit cooler than my smaller indoor tanks.
The angels love the space, but the thing they love most is the bugs that sometimes fall inside following the lights... between them and the Black skirt tetras they are having a banquet. At night while the lights are still on its pretty difficult to get pics of them as they are all lurking on top waiting for bugs to fall (and the ocassional frog!).
As for money... hmmm much of the things i did with contractors friends of mine in their time offs, so it may have taken a bit longer but i've been able to get good deals on almost everything... the most expensive though have not been the plants/fish, but rather the outdoor landscape (plants, roof and base structure), the
canister filter; i had to spend some extra $ replacing plants that died the 1st time around.......
Will post some more pics and a few more details later today.
Thanks again
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oops! I guess I was spacin' out! 
