VOTE NOW!...Fishforums February 2020 Tank of the Month

[Fishmanic]

POLL HAS NOW CLOSED!
PLEASE VOTE!

We have 6 entrants for Fishforums' February 2020 Tank of the Month Contest. View all the tanks and descriptions below and then go to top of page and click on your choice for TOTM

It’s best to view these awesome tanks on a computer screen or a tablet instead of a small phone screen.

Winner will be awarded a neat "Tank of the Month Winner" banner in his profile area and will be featured in a "TOTM Winner" thread for all to see and to comment on.

Please DO NOT post any comments about specific tanks in this thread...such posts will promptly be deleted. This thread will be cleaned up occasionally for best readability.

Poll will close on February 13th at 3:58 PM EST. We at fishforums.net thank you for your participation.

 

[Barry Tetra]

Welcome to my Plastic Plant Paradise!

Tank: 15 Gal
Age: maybe 7 months? can’t remember correctly
Fish stocking: 3 swordtails, 2 balloon mollies, 1 blue ram, 6 kuhli loaches
Heating: no heating (temp 32 C = 89.2 F)
Filtration: Sobo FG 1202 internal filter and sponge filter
Lighting: Can’t remember
Tank maintenance:weekly 75% water changes, filter and gravel clean
Feeding schedules: daily night
Decor: plastic plants and groot
Aeration: 2 Bubble stone
Substrate: gravel
Thanks for reading.

 

[z09050]

Tropical Community Tank!

Febuary Tank Of The Month 2020
On the last photo with the note, the neon tetra has food in its mouth, not fungus
Size: 130l
Fish/Lifestock: 1x Pond Snail, 2x Amano Shrimp, 3x Dalmatian Mollies, 6x Guppies, 8x Neon Tetras, 5x Cardinal Tetras, 5x Corydoras
Heating: 26 Degrees C
Filtrarion: 100 Series Internal Maxi Filter, Not sure on the model
Lighting: Aqua One, Not sure on the model
Tank Matinence: Weekly 25% Water Changes + Testing, Daily Glass Cleaning, Monthly Filter, Weekly Gravel Clean
Feeding time: Every Morning
Decoration: Plastic + Natural Plants, 2x Natural Dry Rock, Driftwood and a nemo that has been in every tank since I started <3
Substrate: Sand
Good luck to everybody who entered + thanks for reading!

 

[BetterWithBettas]

My newest tank which to me is my dream tank for hands down my favorite fish: a betta!

It is the new home for my plakat Elvis and 5 nerites.

Tank size: 4ft
Tabk inhabitants: 1 betta, 5 nerites
Age: 1 week old
Temp: 26 degrees Celsius
Equiptment: 2 internal filters, 2 heaters and 2 lights
Feeding: 2 pellets morning, frozen food at night (blood worms, brine shrimp or mosquito lavae)
Substrate: gravel and sand
Decorations: live plants and drift wood

 

[CryptFan]

Tank: 36 gallon bowfront
filtration: fluval c3, and tetra whisper 40-75 gallon
lighting: Nicrew classicled g2 planted aquarium light
substrate: Black diamond blasting sand, Fluval stratum in pot
hardscape: ohku stone, terra cotta planter, driftwood(mopani?)
plants: amazon sword, Anubias nana, various crypts, struggling Va, ozelot sword, struggling marble sword, floating plant sold as salvia.
firtillizer: diy root tabs, and api leaf zone
parameters:
0 amonia
0 nitrites
20-40 nitrates
8.4 ph
79F
stocking: a lot of guppies, 3 Endler pairs
3 pearl gouarmis
5 albino corydoras,
every type of pest snail
food: Hikari bottom feeder, tetra tropical flakes, adult brine shrimp

 

[FishFinatic77]

This is my betta tank.
Size: 5 gallons
Stocking: 1 male super delta betta named Mooki
Plants: Valicineria, anubias, some type of bacopa (I think), anacharis, and marimo moss balls.
Heating: 70 Degrees F
Filtrarion: Built in filter, but I replaced the cartridge with aquarium sponge and poly-fiber.
Tank Matinence: Weekly 20-25% Water Changes w/ gravel vacuum + algae cleanings + Seachem flourish once a week.
Decoration: 2 clay pots and a clay temple that came from Thailand.
Substrate: River rock gravel.
Age: 9 months old
Feeding: betta pellets, micro pellets, or bugbites + freeze dried bloodworms, blanched peas, and frozen brineshrimp. (I don't feed this all in one day of course )

I apologize for the cloudy water in the picture, I just did a water change. Anyway, thanks for reading!

 

[vanalisa]

Lollypop Tank

5 gallon "Plexi" cube used by restaurants for refrigerated food storage.
One month old, it began as an emergency tank for a nippy Danio and repository for extra floating plant pluckings.
Filtration consists of a filter from a Top Fin 3.5 gallon Enchant tank inserted into a plastic Top Fin Three Way breeding tank with a used filter cartridge from a running tank, a used Fluval baffle filter, and a filter media bag full of the red mossy stuff elsewhere in the tank, all suction-cupped to the inside of the cube.
Lighting is an Aqueon clip-on unit with 18 white and three blue LEDs part of the day, and just a nearby lamp another part.
Heater, yes.
Water: no nitrites, ph 7.2, ammonia too hard to tell, honestly, I lost the chart that comes with the kit and had to use one from the internet...must moniter.
Feedings, yes. Various foods including Hikari First Bites, Bloodworms, Hikari pellets regular sized and pulverized, Shrimp eggs.
Inhabitants:
Lollypop, pink and yellow striped "glo" Danio
Squirt, my lone Green Neon Tetra
White Tara, Mystery Snail
Frick & Frack, RCS & Green "Candy" Shrimp
Wood with Annubias sprouts.
Struggling Annubias with one leaf.
Floaters.
Rose Quartz.
Thanks!

 

[Fishmanic]

End of Entries: please slowly scroll up as your review the 6 entries and then cast your vote in the poll at the top of this thread. Thanks to everyone who participated in this month's TOTM.

please note: AJE and WinterSoldier were disqualified as they did not post a validation pic with note attached. I hope you will re-enter in March TOTM.

Next up is our Fish of the Month contest starting in mid February. You may enter any fish in your household in the FOTM contest.

 

[Colin_T]

what's the validation pics for?

 

[Fishmanic]

A validation pic is to show that you own the tank and that it is a recent pic.

 

[PheonixKingZ]

But do you have to have a TOTM note card taped on your tank?

 

[Fishmanic]

yes, you need a note for all our contests...you can attach it to the entry or hold it in front of entry...it must be handwritten and say MONTH, YEAR, TFF, Contest name (TOTM, FOTM, or POTM)...the rule is stated in my first post for all the contests. If you wish you can add a second pic without the note attached (or a video ...only for TOTM) which will be your entry pic

 

[utahfish]

View attachment 97367
Tank: 36 gallon bowfront
filtration: fluval c3, and tetra whisper 40-75 gallon
lighting: Nicrew classicled g2 planted aquarium light
substrate: Black diamond blasting sand, Fluval stratum in pot
hardscape: ohku stone, terra cotta planter, driftwood(mopani?)
plants: amazon sword, Anubias nana, various crypts, struggling Va, ozelot sword, struggling marble sword, floating plant sold as salvia.
firtillizer: diy root tabs, and api leaf zone
parameters:
0 amonia
0 nitrites
20-40 nitrates
8.4 ph
79F
stocking: a lot of guppies, 3 Endler pairs
3 pearl gouarmis
5 albino corydoras,
every type of pest snail
food: Hikari bottom feeder, tetra tropical flakes, adult brine shrimp

Love the blasting sand, i use the same!

 

[Fishmanic]

Poll has now ended . We have a winner...and the winner is: BetterWithBettas...you may congratulate him in the winner's thread here: https://www.fishforums.net/threads/winner-fishforums-february-2020-tank-of-the-month.456576/

Thanks for participating in our TOTM contest. Starting later today is our Fish of the Month contest...you may enter any fish in your household in the FOTM contest.