May 2008 nTOTM Entries Needed!!

[InLimbo87]

Looking for your best shots for this month's tank of the month! Here are brief rules for entry into the contest:

1) Tank Size: Display size of 34 gallons and smaller.
2) Two pictures max per entry. One full tank shot and another of your choice.
3) Please also include a description of your tank setup (ie equipment, length setup, etc)
4) Past winners (Below) are asked to give someone else a shot unless there is a totally new tank that they would like to enter.
5) Once voting has began, there is to be no 'campaigning' for votes for the nTOTM. I feel this destroys the fun of the contest, and turns it into a 'popularity' contest, which no one wants. Anyone caught campaigning, whether on club forums or other forums, will be removed from voting.


Timeline

April 2nd - Open thread for entries for the March nTOTM
April 15th - Top 5 tanks are posted in a new thread for voting. Voting is 2 weeks.
April 25th - Winner is Decided.
May 1st - They post their winning profile on this date as well as the next entry thread for April nTOTM.


Looking forward to seeing all of your entries this month! Make this a hard choice for me to pick the top five, will ya?


Past winners for your viewing pleasure:

April 2008 (InLimbo87)

November 2007 (Okinawan)

October 2007 (DeMartini)

September 2007 (Joesmoe517)

August 2007 (PurpleUp)

July 2007 (BigByrd)

June 2007 (Helfrich’s Chic)

May 2007 (Anguswu)

April 2007 (Nanokiper)

March 2007 (EZCompany)

February 2007 (Calvin415)

January 2007 (Junkitu)

December 2006 (Victoria)

November 2006 (LouisT)

*If I missed any past winners, pm me a link to the thread and I'll make sure to include it in the list for next month.

**Any questions about the contest, etc, can either be posted here or you can send me a PM regarding it.

 

[adam82]

My tank is a 20 long.
about 20lbs of live rock
30lbs of live sand
fish- 2 Black O. Clowns, 1 Yellow Clown Goby, and 1 Rainsford Goby.
inverts- 12 snails, 2 sexy shrimp, and 1 pom pom crab.
corals include- green frogspawn, yellow yuma, multi colored yuma, blue ric, yellow ric, orange ric, blue purple and red shrooms, orange digi, flower pot, gsp, red palys, yellow palys, dragon eye zoas, kenya tree, and some xenia.
filter-1 aquaclear 110 adding another one soon to use as a fuge.
light- 130w pc's

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[brandon7491]

tank has been up 1year and 5mths
29gallon tank (standard)
60lbs fiji,tonga,gulf liverock
50lbs ls
aqua c remora hob protien skimmer with maxijet 1200
melinium 2000 hob filter with activated carbon and lr
2 penguin 1140 power heads
1 hydro korilla nano
ocean light aquamedic 150watt mh
14k phoneix bulb
1 flame angel
1 neon dotty back
2 clowns
2 cleaner shrimp
10-15 blue legs
tons of stars and snails
corals are;acropora nobilis,tri color,acropora secale,orange ricordea,green ricordea,purple yumma,orange yumma,singularia,yellow fiji leather,speghetti leather,finger leather,xenia,orange zoos,pink zoos,green star polyps,coco worm,frilly mushrooms,green speghetti leather,torch coral,frogspawn,brain coral, orange plate coral,pink eye green skirt zoos,palys.

 

[sjfishguy]

SPS dominated Oceanic 30 cube
150W 14k Phoenix
no sump or fuge
Coralife Super Skimmer 65

Corals:
Acropora lovelli (Mike Paletta Turquoise)
Acropora millipora (ORA blue)
Acropora millipora (Nathan's green)
Acropora sp
Acropora sp (Chip's)
Acropora sp (GARF bonsai)
Acropora tenius (blue tip)
Acropora tortusa (ORA Blue)
Acropora valida
Acropora youngei (green slimer)
Blastomussa merletti
Blastomussa wellsi
Caulastrea curvata
Duncanopsamia axifuga
Fungia repanda (green)
Fungia repanda (purple)
Fungia sp (orange)
Green Star Polyps
Hydnopora rigata (baby blue)
Montipora capricornis (green)
Montipora capricornis (orange)
Montipora danae (superman)
Montipora digitata (ORA blue polyp)
Montipora digitata (green)
Montipora digitata (orange)
Montipora monestariata
Montipora sp (pokerstar)
Muricea elongata (orange gorgonia)
Muriceopsis flavida (purple gorgonia)
Palythoa sp (x3 morphs)
Pocillopora damicoris
Seriatapora guttatus
Seriatapora hystrix
Trachyphillia geoffroi (green)
Trachyphillia geoffroi (red)
Turbineria peltata
Turbineria reniformis
Zoanthus sp (10 morphs)

Inverts:
Scarlet cleaner shrimp
Coral Banded shrimp
red serpent star
harlequin sepent star
orange coneshell hermit (hawaii)
typical snails and hermits for cleanup crew

Coral Beauty, Maroon Clown (that hosts in a one of my two maxima clams!), Royal Gramma, Sixline wrasse

Hope you guys like it! I don't post pictures all that often but some people told me I should enter.

 

[BlakDuc]

Awesome Rich.

Maybe the June contest will let 40 Breeders participate.

 

[BLKTANG]

Awesome Rich.Count me in for a vote,come votin time.

 

[Jadams]

Rich - Gets my NTOTM vote! Great Tank!

 

[InLimbo87]

Great entries so far!! Keep em comin

 

[brandon7491]

damn bro awsome tank

 

[kaserpick]

Incredible tank Rich! Simply stunning!

 

[dailydriven911]

I vote for sjfishguy! Beautiful tank!

 

[steelmen]

Sjfishguy gets my vote. That is one nice set-up.

 

[InLimbo87]

Only 3 entries so far???? Don't be shy... enter your nano into this month's contest!!

 

[jackson6745]

Very nice nano sjfishguy!!!

 

[InLimbo87]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12244944#post12244944 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by BlakDuc
Awesome Rich.

Maybe the June contest will let 40 Breeders participate.

I'm making an executive decision to get some more entries this month. Anything up to a 40 gallon display will be allowed to enter!!

 

[jackson6745]

Can't compete with more mature tanks but this is where I'm at after 2 1/2 months. My camera isn't the greatest.

 

[plyle02]

I will participate even though my corals are still coloring up and healing from a recent salinity and alk spike. This is my 28 gallon bowfront sps nano. The tank is only 4 months old, so still much work to do..... Equipment includes a 15 gallon sump, using a Euro-Reef skimmer that is recirculating modded and mesh modded. It is out of sump and rated for a heavy stocked 135 gallon tank. The return pump is a mag 7 with 4' head loss. I also use 3 korilla 2's for additional flow. The tank is lit with a 250 watt halide with a 20k coralvue bulb. I use 2 part dosing, controlled by the aqua-medic reef doser 2. I also have a JBJ ATO to top off RO/DI. I currently have 7 fish and a pistol shrimp. They include 2 percula clowns, 4 green chromis, and a shrimp goby. I feed frozen mysis, frozen brine, coral vibrance, and WM Aminos. Thanks for looking......
Perry

 

[MADtanks]

I have no competition to offer but why not great looking tanks so far!!!!!

Here I go, sorry in advance for crappy camera work

13" Office Cube made out of 1/2" Cast crystal clear acrylic
Drilled for closed loop/filtration

Filter: Fluval 404 with a bag of chemipure, no other media.
Heat: 50W heater modded into the fluval 404
Flow: provided by Fluval 404 around 300GPH
Lighting: 70W Viper MH 14k bulb
Light cycle: On@7am Off@3pm total of 8hrs

Livestock:
7-10lbs of mixed LR
1/2" sand bed mixed fine, and med
-cleanup crew
1 Redleg Hermit
3 Blue leg hermits
2 Astrea Snails
3 Nassarius snails
1 Porcelain crab
-Fish
2 Bluestripe Pipefish
-Corals/other inverts
25+ Ricordea FL, Ricordea Yuma
5 Acans 3 of which are Australian, 1 Maxima, and 1 Orange Crush Echi.
1 Australian Duncan with about 7heads
1 Blue Maxima 2.5"
1 Green Mini Carpet Anemone
1 ORA Blue Birds Nest
1 Prostrata
1 GWOP Digi
1 Purple Scroll coral

Frontal

Bluestripe pipefish AKA "Peter Griffin"

Enjoy

 

[NanoReefWanabe]

well, even though i havent cleaned out my frags, or killed all my lovely algae, or the beautiful redbugs running around my acros, i said i would enter this month and here it is..

20H with 10g sump
150 MH ARO ballast, aqua connect 14000K bulb + 56W PC Actinic
fuge light is a 15w SCF
berlin airlift 60 skimmer
Koralia1, koralia2, aquaclear70 (return), maxjet400 in the fuge
2 little fish phosban reator
40lbs lR fiji and marshall
~20lbs live sand
1.5 years old

Fish:
2 false percs, 1 green chromis, 1 6line wrasse
Inverts:
2 mini Carpet anemones, 1 crocea clam, 1 coral banded shrimp, piles of bue leg hermits, black brittle star
Coral:
far too many to list, acropora 3 or 4, montipora about 10, zoas 50polyps of about 20 different colonies, GSP, kenya tree, ricordea, Yumas, etc...

FTS:

 

[Lalani]

1 month old 20H. Everything was transferred into this tank from two already established tanks.

Equipment:
20H tank 24x12x16
Finnex 24" 4x24w T5HO fixture
AC110 fuge
Koralia nano
Coralife digital thermometer
Hydor THEO 50w heater

Livestock:
~20lb. Live rock
~20lb. Live sand
2 occ. clownfish
Yellow clown goby
5 red leg hermit crabs
Various snails
Frogspawn
Hammer
GSP
Zoas
Palys
Ricordea mushroom