I was trying to go natural, I didn't really have a plan just stuck in what I thought looked nice. Not as nice as most of yours but I love it. I was having a hard time getting a good picture though since there is light coming in from the windows.
Low tech and perfectly balanced. I have 10 rummies, a handful of male guppies that will be moved to my new tank when I set it up, an unknown number of pygmy cories, and a juvenile bristle-nose pleco.
4 months or so. I had to experiment with plants, some melted off entirely (damn ludwigia) but others thrived. My java fern turned into like 30 java ferns which I spread throughout the left side of the tank. I tried some hairgrass but I think I didn't put enough nutrients in the foreground so that all died off, even with root tabs.