🐠 TOTM VOTE NOW: August 2026 Tank of the Month Contest (31 gallons and larger)

[connorlindeman31 32]

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Please Vote Now
We have 4 great tanks entered in Fishforums' August 2026 Tank of the Month contest featuring tanks sized at 31 US gallons and larger! View both 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.
If you wish, you may vote for yourself.

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 August 18 at 8:00 A.M (ET)

 

[FattyFish]

Well, after narrowly missing out on the POTM, I thought I would have a pop at the TOTM.
This is my 252 litre/66 US gallon community tank.

The Tank and Stand: Fluval Shaker Oak.
Filters: Fluval 307 plumbed through the base, also an Oase 150 internal filter.
Lights: Lominie LED 25w x2

Fish etc:
20-ish mixed guppies
6 Endlers
6 Panda Cory
17 Ember Tetras
12 Rummy Nose Tetras
18 Cardinal Tetras
2 Gold Honey Guramis
2 Red Honey Guramis
1 Pear Gurami
1 Small common Pleco (this will be moved on and swapped for another small one when he reaches 3-4 inches)
4 Gold Neocaridina Shrimp
4 Armano Shrimp

Decor:
Mixed plants, too many to list. Loads of spider wood. Mixture of house plants.

Thanks for looking

 

[Magnum Man34 148]

this is my 65 gallon “wild type” sword fish breeding tank… but it also has a male high fin sun set platy ( no need to worry about him breeding, he can’t catch anything with the super size “cape” he wears ) also 1 super red bushy nose pleco, a few dwarf mexican orange cray fish, and about a dozen orange neocardia shrimp… there are 2 mature male swords 6-7 mature females and currently 6-7 batches of fry… there are 2 rarer hoya plants growing out of the tank, in pots, with live moss on top…. one variegated ( high white ) and one black margin, then some java fern , and some Cryptocoryne undulata, in pots in the tank

these are actively breeding, as there is another group of new fry today, after the original posting…

 

[gwand33 150]

This is a 60 gallon Lake Tanganyikan tank home to 5 adult J. transcriptus and 2 juveniles, 2 Submu Dwarf Altolamprologus compressiceps and a colony of
Neolamprologus multifasciatus. The Julies and compressiceps live mostly on the rocky left side of the tank and the Multies live in snail shells on the right side of the tank. There are a variety of plants including swords, anubias, guppy grass and crypts. Pothos plants live aquaponically on the right, rear rim of the tank. There are two filters: AC 110 and an air pump driven sponge. The water has a TDS of 550 ppm and a temperature of 79F maintained by an Olushy 500watt heater.

 

[Mazain]

There are a few upgrades made to the discus tank from my last appearance on TFF TOTM. This time i made a video.

I have pruned the dominant pogostomon plant to have background and mid-level plants in the aquarium. The plants added Rotala rotundifolia, Rotala blood red, Ludwigia repens and AR mini.

For planting I had to make a 27cm x 17cm x 10cm frame box shape to hold the stem plants firm and have a fine attachment to the substrate making it compact.

If not It would have cost me a fortune to fill up the tank with substarte and still find the aquasoil coarse, which will make the stem plants to float.

Dimensions of the tank is 133cm x 61cm x 44cm. Volume 345 liters cement wall tank with front glass-wall.
The fish are discus, bosemani rainbows, cardinal tetras, SAE, neo-caradina shirmps and trumpet snails.

Plants
• Cryptocoryne
• Rotala macrandra green
• Cuba
• Pogostomon
• Pothos
• Hydrilla
• Hygrofila pinnatifida
• Rotala blood red
• Rotala rotundifolia
• Ludwigia repens
• Pearl weed
• Anubias nana petite
• AR mini

Water Parameters
• Ph 6 - 7
• Temp. 28c
• Dechlorinated tap water

Low tech tank with double tubeline air-pums, gravel filters 12 inch x 12 inch Filter plates and a sponge filter regular size. DIY canister sump filter 2000 lph with filter media above the fish tank.
Stable lighting 80 cm aibao LED submersible light × 2 along with a auto analog thermometer.

I have switched back to 50% water change every once a week for the new plants to stable. Glass wall is cleaned every water change.
Feeding happens daily.

Fish Foods products
Beefheart homemade discus food.
Trooical krill gran

 

[connorlindeman31 32]

Please scroll up as you review the four 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.

 

[connorlindeman31 32]

VOTE VOTE VOTE

 

[connorlindeman31 32]

Keep the votes coming. Soon we will begin accepting entries for our Fish of the Month contest. This month we are featuring Bettas. Get your pictures ready!

 

[connorlindeman31 32]

Two days till voting ends.