🐠 TOTM CassCats - February 2025 Tank of the Month Winner (31 Gallons and larger)

[connorlindeman]

We have a winner in Fishforums.net
February 2025 Tank of the Month Contest
We had 5 awesome tanks entered in this month's TOTM contest featuring tanks sized at 31 gallons and larger but only one could win...
And the winner is.......

CassCats

Let's all congratulate them

Here's the winning tank and its description:​

All of the plants and fish are found within the Paraguay region, particularly in the Rio Paraguay and Parana basins. Sources such as GBIF, EOL, and iNaturalist were used to research the occurrences of the plants and fish for this setup. This set up has been running for over a year now, but had been a previous setup that had had multiple failures and restarts. I am happy to say this set up, which was started back from scratch, has been unproblematic and likely my favourite setup to date. This is a subtropical region of South America, and temperatures as low as 60s aren't abnormal for the area. This tank recently had a heater mishap (somehow it got unplugged) and temperatures dipped down well below 64F and the fish had no problems and had even been spawning regardless.

Stock:
15 hoplisoma paleatum
20 hyphessobrycon elachys
9 bario forestii/sanctaefilomenae
2 apistogramma borelli

Plants:
Heternanthera zostifolia
Potamogeton gayi
Sagittaria subulata
Bacopa australis

Hardscape: round river rocks and driftwood collected from local freshwater river.

Temperature: 72-74F
pH 7
GH 5°
KH 3°
TDS 107

Light: JC&P Full Spectrum LED

Filtration: Fluval Fx4 Canister

Heater: Hitop 300w (only plugged in from December to March)

Wavemaker: 528gph Sunsun Brand

Fertilizer: The Plant Guy's All in One fertilizer, a Canadian only product. Comparable to NilocG Thrive for much lower a price.

Water is changed weekly, 75-90% is removed.

 

[Magnum Man]

congrats

 

[connorlindeman]

Congrats @CassCats for the win. Superb aquascaping. Really, really nice.
In 2nd place we have @Doldain. Great job! Your plants look very healthy. Is that Cabomba in the back? It looks great!
In 3rd place is @Magnum Man with his 45 gallon African tetra tank. I really like those roots coming down. Nice touch.

Right now we are accepting entries for our January Fish of the Month contest. We are featuring Barbs. Please consider entering here: ENTER NOW.

 

[emeraldking]

Congrats, @CassCats...

 

[gwand]

Congratulations Cass. Beautiful work as usual.

 

[Innesfan]

Gorgeous. Easy to see why it is your favorite set-up. Really well done. Congrats.

 

[Fishmanic]

@CassCats Great looking tank. You have top notch tanks and fish and this is just one example.

 

[FranciscoB]

Congrats! Beautiful tank. Graeat work.

 

[Fishkeeper123]

Congratulations @CassCats, great tank

 

[MattW]

Congratulations

 

[Essjay]

Congratulations

 

[dascrow]

Congrats @CassCats on another amazing win!

 

[CassCats]

Thank you everyone

 

[OldFishKeeper]

We have a winner in Fishforums.net
February 2025 Tank of the Month Contest
We had 5 awesome tanks entered in this month's TOTM contest featuring tanks sized at 31 gallons and larger but only one could win...
And the winner is.......

CassCats

Let's all congratulate them

Here's the winning tank and its description:​

All of the plants and fish are found within the Paraguay region, particularly in the Rio Paraguay and Parana basins. Sources such as GBIF, EOL, and iNaturalist were used to research the occurrences of the plants and fish for this setup. This set up has been running for over a year now, but had been a previous setup that had had multiple failures and restarts. I am happy to say this set up, which was started back from scratch, has been unproblematic and likely my favourite setup to date. This is a subtropical region of South America, and temperatures as low as 60s aren't abnormal for the area. This tank recently had a heater mishap (somehow it got unplugged) and temperatures dipped down well below 64F and the fish had no problems and had even been spawning regardless.

Stock:
15 hoplisoma paleatum
20 hyphessobrycon elachys
9 bario forestii/sanctaefilomenae
2 apistogramma borelli

Plants:
Heternanthera zostifolia
Potamogeton gayi
Sagittaria subulata
Bacopa australis

Hardscape: round river rocks and driftwood collected from local freshwater river.

Temperature: 72-74F
pH 7
GH 5°
KH 3°
TDS 107

Light: JC&P Full Spectrum LED

Filtration: Fluval Fx4 Canister

Heater: Hitop 300w (only plugged in from December to March)

Wavemaker: 528gph Sunsun Brand

Fertilizer: The Plant Guy's All in One fertilizer, a Canadian only product. Comparable to NilocG Thrive for much lower a price.

Water is changed weekly, 75-90% is removed.

Congrats on the win, CassCats!

 

[OldFishKeeper]

Congrats on the win, CassCats!