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

[connorlindeman]

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Please Vote Now
We have 6 great tanks entered in Fishforums' January 2026 Tank of the Month contest featuring tanks sized at 17 - 30 US gallons! 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.

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 January 16 at 5:30 P.M (ET).

 

[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.

 

[gwand]

20 gallon long
A pair of Apistogramma cacatuoides lemon candy morph
10 Glowlight tetras (Hemigrammus erythrozonus)
Anubias, cryptocoryne wentii, Amazon sword, Almond and Oak leaf, Cholla, River stones and 3 coconut caves. Four aquaponic Pothos.
GH 105 ppm, pH 7.0, temp 79F 200 watt Olushy heater.
AquaClear and Seachem Tidal HOB filter

 

[Mudge]

Here is my 20 long, set up about five months ago.
Caribsea Midnight River substrate.
Sicce Shark Pro Pump/filter.
Hygger LED programmable light.
Plantings: Hygrophilia, Amazon Swords, Water Wisteria, Rotala, Hornwort.
Other Bioload: Honey Gouramis, Platinum Rummy Noses, Ember Tetras, Julli Corys, Pygmy Corys, Assorted Shrimp, Assassin Snails, and Bladder Snails.
I feed mostly Aquarium Co-op Magic Nano Feed, Fluval Bug Bites Granules and Flakes.

 

[EmmaS]

Roma 125l setup 12th August 2024
Filtration- Two sponge filters- Pawfly 7w pump.
Light- Aquasky 2.0 - 9 hours
Substrate- Sand and Tropica plant Substrate
Hardscape- Dragonstone
Plants - Various Crypts, Bucephalandra, Bacopa, Limnophila, Water Sprite, Salvinia, Hygrophila, Anubias, Java fern and a few others.
Livestock- Danio Nigrofasciata- 6-7 Celestial Pearl Danio- 15-18 Amano shrimp and cherry shrimp. 1-2 Otocinclus. Fish were bred by me.
NO SNAILS
Water Change- 70% Every month, Sponge filters rinsed under normal tap water every two weeks
Fertilization- 25 ml twice per week TNC Lite
Cleaning- Very little. Glass stays clean
Food- Mainly live and NTLabs Micro Crumb 4 or 5 times per week. Courgette twice per week and shrimp pellets.

Tank below was the hardscape

 

[Gertrudae]

Here is my new aquarium, which depicts a small stream in southern China. I set it up at December 26 2025, included some mud from another tank, NO2 was always not detectable, stocked last saturday December 3rd.
Size: 104x35x30 cm ~ 109 l ~ 29 gallons
Tech: 600l/h flow pump, no name LED Light
Hardscape: Natural sand from the gravel pit, 0 to 2 mm, predominantly fine fraction; red colored Stones from the local river Inn; unknown root from a pile of green waste, some kind of conifer
Plants: dwarf form of Acorus calamus, some unknown moss, Egeria densa, Najas guadalupensis, Algae as a natural part of this habitat are welcome - I introduced a small kind of Cladophora, that looks a bit like C. aegagrophila
Livestock: 7 Tanichthys albiventris "Blue Line", wild catch, some of the usual small water snails.
Planned: Increase the number of Tanichthys to ~ 20 by breeding, plus a small Rhinogobius species.
Water parameters: room temperature from 15° (right now) to 25° (expected), medium hard, pH between 7 and 7.8, a mixture of tap water and cistern water
Planned maintenance: moderate water changes (30% every 14 days), mainly live food, fertilisation as required if the plants show signs of deficiency. Experience has shown that this also works without fertilisation, but the low potassium content may need to be increased.

 

[connorlindeman]

Please scroll up as you review the six 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.

 

[dascrow]

Good luck everyone!

 

[Fishmanic]

Only 12 members have voted. Certainly we have more than 12 active members. If you haven't yet voted, please

VOTE NOW!
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