🐠 TOTM ENTER NOW: May 2025 Tank of the Month Contest (31 US gallons and larger)

[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 31 US gallons (117 litres) and larger 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 "May 2025 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 May 9th 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.

 

[Fishkeeper123]

I’ll enter my beloved 48 gallon community for a second time(I hope that’s allowed). There have been big changes but stocking isn’t confirmed and still some changes to be made. Filter is interpret CF3 adapted to make it more effective. Probably biweekly water changes of 50 percent but parameters get monitored so if nitrates over 40 water change. Stocking is a keyhole cichlid, a Bristlenose pleco, 5 sterbai cories, 7 long finned leopard danios, 6 yellow rainbowfish, a Bolivian ram and an electric blue acara. However I think I’ll rehome the final 2 cichlids for more keyholes but undecided.The tank temperature is 24-25 degrees and is very active tank. Plants are a mixture of things but I know I have anubias and Amazon frogbit but my favourite is the largest one centre-right. It’s not perfectly aquascaped but it’s got plenty of hiding spaces which the fish can go to. They get fed a mixture of fish food. Their favourites are vibra bites, bug bites, frozen daphnia and spirulina wafers. I plan on trying more veggies but the fish don’t seem to enjoy them as much as I hoped.

 

[anewbie]

This is my 600:

You can see some flag cichild (m. festivus) and chocolate cichild (h. temporalis) as well as some headstanders (a. tenetzi) and h. gracis; on the right mid you can see a few of the 30 serpae tetra and a blury L208; in the far middle you can see a l. thayeri (there are 6); what you don't see are the 13 clownloaches; 5 yoyo and 20 zebra. When they want something from me they will arrive next to my desk and start pacing; usually 30 minutes before feeding time.

I actually have 4 chocolates but the other two stay at the far end where they dug a very deep nest - probably should have put in a foot of substrate but it was too heavy to carry into the room. Maybe in another life i will setup a 36 inch tall aquarium with 14 inch of substrate just so my chocolates can dig and dig.

The flag cichild are kind of old and i won't replace them so eventually it will just be chocolate and clowns; or maybe clowns and chocoalte.

And yea the chocolates do breed and even produce millions of frys but remain relatively docile as long as you stay away from their nest which occupies approx 12 to 18 inches at the far end. Try that in a 10.

 

[connorlindeman]

This is my 600:

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You can see some flag cichild (m. festivus) and chocolate cichild (h. temporalis) as well as some headstanders (a. tenetzi) and h. gracis; on the right mid you can see a few of the 30 serpae tetra and a blury L208; in the far middle you can see a l. thayeri (there are 6); what you don't see are the 13 clownloaches; 5 yoyo and 20 zebra. When they want something from me they will arrive next to my desk and start pacing; usually 30 minutes before feeding time.

I actually have 4 chocolates but the other two stay at the far end where they dug a very deep nest - probably should have put in a foot of substrate but it was too heavy to carry into the room. Maybe in another life i will setup a 36 inch tall aquarium with 14 inch of substrate just so my chocolates can dig and dig.

The flag cichild are kind of old and i won't replace them so eventually it will just be chocolate and clowns; or maybe clowns and chocoalte.

And yea the chocolates do breed and even produce millions of frys but remain relatively docile as long as you stay away from their nest which occupies approx 12 to 18 inches at the far end. Try that in a 10.

Please attach a verification photo.

 

[connorlindeman]

You are allowed to reenter as many times as you like any aquarium that has never won before.