The jury is still out on the EB con. As it grows, I'll see what it looks like. Someone in another thread mentioned it looks like a HRP, but we will see. I think everyone on here went through the aquascaping pains with thier first few tanks. It takes a while to find out what your taste is. I started out with a 20G tank with dinosaur skulls and multicolored gravel. Back then, you could not tell me that my tank looked bad. Now that I look back on it, it was hideous. I always set a tank up, and then came on here or saw another tank that I liked and wanted to redo mines. These days, I'm a huge fan of driftwood, lava rock and slate. Now that I've tried sand, I will most likely set up the 125 with sand when put it up.