🐠 TOTM VOTE NOW: July 2025 Tank of the Month Contest (17-30 US gallons)

[connorlindeman]

17 to 30 Gallons

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Please Vote Now
We have 6 awesome tanks entered in Fishforums' July 2025 Tank of the Month contest featuring tanks sized at 17 to 30 US gallons! View all the tanks and descriptions below and then go to poll at the top of this thread, click on your choice for TOTM, and then click the "Cast" button.

Please DO NOT post any comments about any specific entry in this thread...such posts will promptly be deleted. You are not allowed to update your entry picture or video once voting has started.

Please Note:
Any attempt to influence competition results, other than by casting your allocated vote, is not permitted and may result in your entry being removed and / or further action being taken. You are not allowed to have friends or family join TFF for the main purpose of voting for you. This is a public poll so source of votes can be viewed.

Winner will be awarded a neat "Tank of the Month Winner" banner in their profile area and will be featured in a "TOTM Winner" thread for all to see and to comment on. Winner will also be added to our TOTM WALL OF FAME

You are allowed to change your vote if you wish.
This poll will end on July 16 at 5 P.M (ET).

 

[Coryking]

This is my 20 gallon aquascape.

It has been set up for a half a year orginally more of a black water nature scape however has shifted into a jungle style.

I do a water change once every two weeks. I feed flakes once a day, frozen daphnia, fine- musselor or cyclops once every other day and a algae wafers once a week. I do not use any fertilizer or CO2. There is a mixture of gravel and sand layered ontop of basic aquasoil. there is also some pods, bark and other long lasting botanicals. For equipment I have a basic internal filter, a heater that came with a different tank and 1 10W sansi grow bulb.

Plants
Cryptocoryne crispatula (background that spread to mid and foreground)
Rotala blood red and H'ra (mid and background)
Bacopa Caroliniana (Background)
myriophyllum mattogrossense (Background)
Echinodorus red diamond pup (foreground)
4 monstera borsigiana

Creatures
long fin albino bristlenose pleco (Ancistrus cirrhosus)
4x bamboo shrimp (Atyopsis moluccensis)
9x cardinal tetra (Paracheirodon axelrodi)
x15? endler's livebearers (Poecilia wingei)
My last African Dwarf frog
A few pest snails

 

[Fishmanic]

THE ARCHWAY​

This is my 29 gallon tank. Plants are all Anubias formed in an archway configuration on a large piece of driftwood. Caves on either side of the tank are made from red colored flagstone and rock. Filtration is a large sponge filter and a Marineland 200 power filter. Substrate is pool filter sand. Heated by a 200 watt heater.

Inhabitants are one Black Skirt Tetra (survivor of a larger group), one Salt and Pepper Cory and 5 Bushy Nose Pleco. The Plecos are a third generation group from spawns in this tank.
Originally I had a pair of BN Plecos that had a spawn of 65 Pleco fry and I gave them all away except about 8 which resulted in a second generation spawn of about 10 more Pleco fry. A couple of those second generation Plecos spawned resulting in about 10 additional Pleco fry. I gave away all but the remaining 5 Plecos to a LFS. Interestingly, one of the present Plecos is an Albino which can be seen on a leaf toward the top of the tank.

 

[Alice B]

Well my Kubotai loach and yoyo loaches are getting along fine in my 29 gallon. They only get shrimp pellets most days, tropical shrimp pie once a week or so. The guppies were kind of accidental but are thriving and multiplying and the chinese algae eater keeps things tidied up. Air driven UG and sponge, plants, it's doing well. I don't add fish much anymore since I don't have a quarantine tank set up right now. If the tank is stable and looks good and healthy, I'm happy.

 

[Innesfan]

One of my 30g longs. (They don't make 'em anymore, sadly.) This one, for several years, was the 'assisted living tank' for geriatrics and last-man-standing fish. It has slowly morphed into a Barb tank currently housing 12 Puntigrus partipetazona (Dwarf Tiger Barb) who are as mild-mannered as their more famous brethren are not, and a few Puntigrus anchisporus that were bycatch to the above, and are also well-behaved..

Plants are anubias, ambulia, val, java moss, java fern. I see in the upper left that one of the val has uprooted. Will fix. No added ferts. Black gravel. Almond leaves. Driftwood. Old school fluorescent strip lights. Temp about 72F (heater is turned off.), 2 HOB Aquaclears and a sponge filter. The thatched hut ornament goes back to my long-ago youth and is a sentimental if tacky feature. Though geographically correct for the barbs! Apologies to the many fine photographers among you whose photos I have enjoyed, but for me, this ain't bad.

 

[anewbie]

This is my 29 gallon a. wolli aquarium. It has an ec of 37 and temp of 77. It has been setup for approx 18 months still in the newbie stage compared to aquariums setup for 10 or 20 years...
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It has a lot of residence and you can see many of them if you look closely. It also has a lot of plants and you can see a few of them but some are hidden.

In the forground you can see 1 of the young a. wolli right center near the leaf. In the back you see a bunch of n. marliyn weaving in and out of the plants. There are some larger a. wolli in the back but they rarely show themselves (once a month if you are lucky) and a few otto. Lots of species of plants including corck screw val and various smaller echinodorus including a fancy twist on right center front and cut off but a small remi on the left front. The stem plant you see back left center and front left corner is ludwigia red skeleton (nice plant) In the left back to right covering driftwood the buce you see was sold as silver powder and if you look closely you can see a bloom or two. There might be something buried by the leaf in the back but i don't think so. Also there is quite a bit of drift wood buried in there. The glare in the lower left is from the discus aquarium - sorry about that but the discus are too temperamental to have their light turned off and on. Last time i pissed them off they wouldn't eat for 2 weeks.
Enjoy !

 

[Whitecloudminnowguy09]

This is my 20-g long tank.

Age, history, and stocking of the tank:

I set it up around 1.5 years ago. It has no current fish because I just transferred some fish to the other tank. There will be harlequin rasboras in the tank soon, as soon as tomorrow actually. It is going to be a community tank. I used to have panda cories in it a half year back (RIP pandas!) but that all went wrong and things went down fast. The tank has made a full recovery and is fully cycled!
Ferts and water parameters:
Ammonia: 0 ppm
nitrite: 0 ppm
nitrates: 25 ppm
Temp in F: 75 degrees
Ph: 7.4

FERTS: Aquarium coop all in one easy green fert, sometimes AC easy Iron, AC easy root tabs.
Filtration, lighting, and maintenance:
I have two aquairum coop sponge filters. Nicrew lighting on a 8 hour cycle, and I do water changes once a week, app 25%.

Decor and plants:
1 amazon sword
10 plus Valisnaria (why cant I spell Val?? lol)
1 anubias nana
1 water wisteria
4 little windelov java ferns
1 moss ball

DECOR: dragon stone, and spiderwood.
I have no feeding schedule cuz no fish at the
moment. lol.

I think thats it??? First entry so here it goes....

 

[Fishmanic]

Please scroll up as you review the 6 awesome entries and then in the poll at the top of this thread, click on your choice for Tank of the Month. Be sure to click the CAST button to register your vote. Good luck to all our entrants.

 

[Fishmanic]

20 votes have been cast already. We’re off to a good start. But did YOU vote? If you didn’t vote yet, please help us crown a winner by casting your vote now.

 

[connorlindeman]

This is a nail biter!

 

[connorlindeman]

We have a three way tie for first place. VOTE! VOTE! VOTE!

 

[Fishmanic]

Please vote. Winner to be announced on Wednesday at 5 PM ET.

 

[Fishmanic]

Just one vote separates the top 3 entries. Only 30 members have voted. Certainly we have more than 30 active members.
If you haven’t voted yet, please

VOTE NOW
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[connorlindeman]

Come on folks, lets get a few more votes in before the poll closes. Winner will be announced tomorrow afternoon.

 

[connorlindeman]

Winner will be announced shortly.