🐠 TOTM ENTER NOW: January 2026 Tank of the Month Contest (17-30 US gallons)

[connorlindeman]

Please enter now!​

Ladies and Gents, Boys and Girls, all our fish lovers around the world - it's time for our monthly Tank of the Month Contest!
This month we are allowing only freshwater aquariums sized at 17 - 30 US gallons to be entered in the TOTM contest.

If you have a tank of the above stated size, please consider entering this month's contest. It doesn't matter whether your tank is planted or not planted and it doesn't matter if your tank is not yet near your final goal. More entrants make the contest more interesting, so enter your tank today!

RULES:
A picture uploaded via our "attach files" tool with a handwritten note held in front or attached to your tank with "January 2026 TFF TOTM" written on it is required to validate your entry. If you wish, you may post either a second recent picture OR a video (not both) without the note attached. (If you post a 2nd pic or video, that pic or video will be displayed as your entry post in the poll). Right under the pictures or the video, post a nice detailed write-up of your tank.
**The write up should include a good description of your tank including size, age of setup, fish stocking, water parameters, ferts used, lighting, filtration type, aeration, tank maintenance procedures, feeding schedules, etc.

• The tank you enter must be in your household
• If you won a TOTM contest previously, you must skip at least 2 TOTM contests before you can enter a different tank.
• Video can be uploaded to youtube and then a link to the video may be posted in this thread.
• A detailed description is required!
• Entries will be accepted till 4 PM ET (US) on January 7th or when we have 10 entrants...whichever comes first. Any entrant who posts an entry after we have 10 entrants will be asked to enter the next TOTM contest and their post will be deleted. The winner will be decided by votes cast by FishForums.net members.
• Please note: you are not allowed to have friends or family join TFF for the main purpose of voting for your entry

What do I win?

• You will get a cool banner in your profile area noting that you are a winner of Tank of the Month.
• Your winning entry will be showcased in a "TOTM Winner" topic for all to see and to comment.
• Your winning entry will be added to our TOTM Wall of Fame

Please don’t post any opinions about any specific entry. Such posts will be promptly deleted. Thread will be cleaned up occasionally for readability.

 

[Whitecloudminnowguy09]

Here is my 20-gallon long community aquarium. It is not really a community at all right now, but it will be soon. I set it up going on 2 years now.
Current stocking and fish:
8 harlequin rasboras
hornwort
amazon sword
anubias nana
moss ball
tiger lotus bulb
Windelov Java Fern
Dwarf sag and Val
(also a few indian almond leaves)
Setup (ferts, light, rock, wood, sand, filters, heaters, etc)
I am using Aquarium Co-op Easy Green at the moment, but I am about to convert to mixing my own fertilizer and creating my own solutions. The rock is dragon stone, and the wood is spider wood. The sand is a pool filter sand from ACE hardware. The two heaters in the corners are tetra 20g and up heaters. And 2 aquarium co-op medium sponge filters. Painted the background with black acrylic paint.

 

[MattW]

This is my 90L (23gal) tank. This scape has been running since late Oct. It's currently home to 5 amano shrimp, 12 Sawbwa Resplendens and many ramshorn snails. I feed Fluval Bug Bites and the occasional alage wafer. Frozen and live foods are also fed when I can get my hands on them. Equipment-wise, I have an APS EF-150 canister filter, an AO GH-100 heater, a Chihiros B60, as well as an airstone and a DIY CO2 system. Which I added yesterday. I also dose a light amount of API leaf zone every week or two. So far, there have been few issues since set up, apart from a diatom phase and a little BBA algae. Future plans for this tank are to add a loach species, preferably from the same area as where the Sawbwa come from.
The plant list is in this thread. It does need to be updated soon, as there have been some changes.