🐠 TOTM ENTER NOW: September 2025 Tank of the Month Contest (16 US gallons and smaller)

[connorlindeman]

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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 16 US gallons and smaller 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 "September 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 September 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.

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[Abaddon]

Here is my little *slightly overgrown* jungle gem It's only 2 months old, so it's still figuring itself out but I'm quite happy with it so far. The plants are quite healthy & pearling even though I don't supplement with CO2.
Size: ~8 gallons
Filtration: small internal turbine filter (~400l/h) + dense sponge, no aeration
Lighting: single LED lamp (rgb, 1050 lumens), 7 hrs a day
Substrate: 100% porous lava rock (very thin layer since the tank is mounted on the wall & I wanted to reduce the weight as much as possible while retaining a large surface area for the biofilter)
Decor: 2 pieces of driftwood (completely taken over by the plants at this point, but I promise they're there)
Plants: anubias, Java fern, hornwort, an assortment of mosses, water sprite, water wisteria, salvinia, 2 stray ludwigia stems that have actually decided to put down roots and grow, marimo balls, bucephalandra, pearl weed, bolbitis.
Inhabitants: a small group of (mostly juvenile) barred topminnows (Quintana atrizona), White Pearl shrimp & pink ramshorns. Lots of hitchhiker snails too, plus some seed shrimp.
Maintenance: ~30% WC every week, daily fertilizer (microelements + potassium & magnesium), feeding 2 x day (powdered dry foods, micro worms, frozen cyclops, freeze-dried daphnia, baby brine shrimp). Once a week I supplement with a shrimp stick that everyone nibbles on (it has bee pollen, peppermint and a variety of plant & algae extracts).

 

[connorlindeman]

Its Sunday. While many of you have the day off, take a moment and enter your 16 gallon or smaller aquarium in this months TOTM contest.
Read rules before entering.

 

[connorlindeman]

Here is my 10g Betta aquarium.

I started this one about a year ago because I wanted to try using Co2. I kinda just let this one be a jungle and only trim it when the pearl weed gets too tall.

Plants:

• Cryptocoryne spiralis 'Tiger'
• Rotala Red
• Pearl Weed
• Pennywort Japan
• Anubias Hastifolia
• Purple Fringed Riccia

 

[MattW]

This is my 12L (3gal) fry and shrimp tank. Just a grow-out and breeding tank, which is the reason for no substrate. It's home to 9 Neocardina shrimp, 3 Sawbwa resplendens and 2 Daisy's rice fish. I usually do a 2L WC every day when possible.
Plants include: Water lettuce, Taiwan moss, Süsswassertang, Java fern, Schismatoglottis prietoi, Guppy grass, and Pothos.

 

[Back in the fold]

BEHOLD ! ! ! My ten gallon with one lone male Betta splendens . Plants are Vesicularia dubyana Java Moss and Java Fern which is growing free floating . Filtration is an air driven sponge filter and lighting comes from above by way of a chicken light fixture with a 5 watt LED bulb . This aquarium has been home to many fish in the last few years as they come and go but the Betta has had it as his own for the past year .

 

[Burleson]

This is my six gallon slightly planted tank
There is one bully sail fin Molly in there name sunny though half the time I think I just have an orange slice in my tank and have a mini heart attack
I have a baby java fern in there with some hornwart and an anubia
I do water changes weekly and liquid fertilizer I plan to add more plants soon it looks a bit bare and hopefully get him a friend he doesn’t want to kill