🐠 TOTM AquaBarb - April 2023 Tank of the Month Winner (17 to 30 Gal)

[Fishmanic]

We have a winner in
Fishforums.net April 2023 Tank of the Month Contest​

We had 6 awesome tanks entered in this month's TOTM contest featuring tanks sized at 17 to 30 gallons but only one could win...

And the winner is.......


AquaBarb
Let's all congratulate them

Here's the winning tank and its description

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Hi folks,
This is the early stages of my 29g Keyhole Forest. Im lucky to be surrounded by beautiful forests and nature reserves where i live in the Uk so im always taking inspiration and ideas away from my walks. So this tank is based on those ideas to bring nature indoors

Tank setup:
*Substrate: Play sand with a base layer of Tropica soil.

*Decor: Redmoor sticks (tree trunks), Green angel rock, Alder cones.
*Plants:
*Cryptocoryne
Beckettii, Wendtii, Willisii, Balansae, lucens, Parva.
*Anubias Heterophilla,Lanceolata
*Sagittaria Subulata
*Frogbit Floating.
(Plants Fed with Tropica, root tabs and seachem flourish)
*Water Parameters:
Ammonia: 0
Nitrites: 0
Nitrates: 10ppm
PH: 7.4
GH: 9 gdh
KH: 7
*Maintance:
50/75% once a week
*Equipment:
Eheim air pump, 2x Eheim 150w heaters, Inkbird temperature controller, Large duel sponge filter, 6500k Nicrew light (on 8 hrs per day)
*Stocking
4x Keyhole Cichlids (Cleithracara maronii)
5x Fiveband barbs (Desmopuntius pentazona)

Thank you for looking and good luck to everyone

 

[Fishmanic]

Congrat @AquaBarb with your "Keystone Forest" themed 29 gallon tank. Very unique setup you have there. Well deserved win.
Coming in 2nd place is @sharkweek178 with their 29 gallon nicely aquascaped tank. Nice job!
And coming in 3rd place is @jaylach with his 20 gallon cube tank. Nice aquascaping job!

Right now we are looking for entries in our FOTM contest which will feature Tetras for the April contest. If you have Tetras, we hope you enter one of them in the contest. CLICK HERE to view entry thread.

 

[sharkweek178]

Congratulations @AquaBarb. Great tank and I'll second a weil deserved win.

 

[Rocky998]

Congrats!

 

[The603]

Congrats!

 

[BleuTheBetta]

Congrats!! Beautiful tank!

 

[jaylach]

@AquaBarb

 

[Ram419]

Love this tank! Congradulations!

 

[Essjay]

Congratulations

 

[connorlindeman]

Congrats @AquaBarb on 4 TOTM's.

 

[AquaBarb]

Thank you everyone very much appreciate it

 

[dascrow]

Congrats @AquaBarb! That was a tough contest to win!