Photo Contest Sponsored by Hikari and Aquarium Co-Op

I finally got all the details worked out on the contest. Until 1/12/2012 at midnight. Anyone can post a picture of their tank. The goal is to get a full tank shot. Each tank can only be submitted once. However you can submit as many tanks as you'd like. The prizes will be given out randomly . So each picture you post will get you another chance it. I think this would be a great way to kick off the new year coming up and share each other's tanks.

Thanks to Hikari, here are the prize packs:
1st Package: 16.3oz Package of Massivore Delight and 6oz package of Jumbo Carnivore Sticks
2nd Package Freeze Dried Bloodworms, Micro Pellets, and Shrimp Cuisine
3rd Package: 8oz Cichlid Bio Gold Mini and 8oz Cichlid Bio Gold Medium

Winners will be chosen at random by me based on a random number. If there are 50 tank pictures submitted. I'll use a random number generator to choose one. Then the first winner picks a package and so on. Until all 3 are gone. Aquarium Co-Op will pay the postage to send it straight to your door.

Share your tank and win some great food! Win/Win!

No time to waste. Start taking pictures of your tanks Please post your tanks in different posts as the number I draw will be corresponding to post number.

Guess I'll get this Started.

Pic of a rack of tanks I had in my fish room about 2 years ago. Demasoni breeding tank on top and cherry shrimp/ heterandria formosa tank on the bottom. Both 55s.

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29g planted tank with no filtration on top. Used Dr Walstad method for the first time. Bottom tank was a green water culture to feed fry

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Old cherry shrimp tank I had setup in a spare bedroom. No longer own this oddball tank

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I wanted to see if I could mass produce guppies. This is a 110 gallon L shaped tank. The giant net is where all the breeders were and rest of the tank was filled with babies. Confirmed. Breeding them like a fish farm does in a large tank does work

Old rack of tanks in the fish room. No longer there. Replace with different tanks now.

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Empty tank:
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Custom 300 gallon I sold a while back. 2 ft pangacius in there, horde of clown loaches, flagtail etc.

Heres a diff shot of the same tank with some different fish in it too.
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Fish shots from it
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Foot long clown loach
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My first shrimp tank, and I think it was my second fish tank I ever owned.

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here are a couple of my tanks, top two are acrylic. first one is the CA cichlid 125,
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second one is the 75 mix and match African tank
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third tank is a 35 hex (started off as my African, now growing some A. Lyonsi, and red islatus fry)
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unfortunately all pics (new and old) are taken with my phone..... my camera broke and i never replaced it. When i finally get a new camera, I will also get to wiping down the front of the tanks to make the pics. clear.

Great contest!
So here is my first real 'BIG' tank. It was a Marineland 120g (60x18x26). This is still my favorite size tank Ive ever owned, the 5ft is really unique.
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Lookin good DMD

Here is my 210g at a point where I first got it and loved the set up the most. Very simple, with LARGE decor!
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I love to build things so at one point I had this setup in my office. A little DIY stand I built with a 29g. This was soon replaced by something bigger of course!
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Kind of feel like this is a bit of a cheat showing this because it was in another pic but I was showing off the 29g and the homemade stand. Here is a 2.5g betta tank I had going for a long time. I did a bit of reorganization and sold this set up to some friends.
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I love nano tanks and would probably have dozens.... but the wife would kill me!

After reorganization, I sold the 29g and 2.5g and I got a 56g column for the office. Here it is right after I got it set up. Looks better now since its cleared up and has some growouts in it.
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So that is some of the tanks Ive had or currently have going. I suppose if I dug through pics I could find more of the tanks that have come and gone but these ones to me are my most memorable.

My turn, I will try and get the rest later.

This is my 250gal SA tank with a trio of WC Ec. Festae/ WC pair of Geo. Altifron/ WC pair of Geo. Steindachneri/ 10 WC Ornatums/ an L114 and L029 Plecos
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135 gal WC Peruvian Festae pair w/500 babies/ and 3 Silver Dollars for dithers/ plus another L029 pleco
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125 gal Female Beani/ Red Devil/ 2 x my Zonatus fry for entertainment/ 3 x Burma Border Loaches (this tank will eventually be for a pair of Beani. As soon as he catches my male)
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I'm enjoying the pic with all the fry. Very cool how you light the aquariums for the pics

Thank you. The babies are getting relocated this weekend. Mom and dad look like they want to spawn again, plus the babies are really starting to stress the parents out.

All 3 of these tanks a lit with LEDs. The 250 has 3 x 24" Led fixtures spanning front to back. The 135 has 2 x 24" LEDs across the top, and the 125 has 1 x 48" LED fixture across the top.

Most of my tanks have LED lights on them now. I am slowly weeding out the bright and expensive T5 fixtures. I still Have 4 tanks with these on them.

55 gallon planted over grown jungle tank[img][You must be registered and logged in to see this link.][/img]

most of my current tanks on a new stand[img][You must be registered and logged in to see this link.][/img]

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165 Bowfront with 33 Red Rainbow and 20 Bemba Tropheus..

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Until 1/12/2012 at midnight.

...we are all a year to late!!! ^_^

..mmm let me get the camera batteries charged up on the camera >.>

Converting to planted predatory.

Leopard Centapoma
Sengal Polypterus
Snake skin Gouramis
Red tail Shark
Columbian pike (species unknown)
Clown loaches
Bristle nosed pleco
Pictus cat
Breeding Kribs

Eventually the Clown loaches will be removed. The largest one is now 6-7 inches. The Pike may have to be removed as well depending on aggression and or size. I would like to switch to dwarf pike.

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Just started 4 weeks ago. Plants exploding under the use of red LED. Just hooked up CO2 yesterday.

Calico angel
Cory cats
long fin bristlenose pleco
Otto cats

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Here are 3 more tanks. I will have 1 more to put into the contest but in the process of setting it up.

This one is of my 8' long 300 gallon Vieja/Paratheraps tank. (I know, they are all classified as something else now) and a male/female Bocourti, 3 delhezi Poly, and 4 exotic plecos.
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This is my 400 gallon. I am trying to set up a breeding tank with this one, and just house 4 different pairs. Haven't quite got the combination that I want. It is home to my male/female Argentea, a pair of Hartwegi, a WC male Ecuadorian Festae and a female TriMac. Oh and 1 albino blue eyed bristle nose, and a Raphy cat
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Last is my Marineland 300 gallon tank 6 x 3 x 27. It is home to my Hoga pair, Zonatus pair, female Heterospila, Female Grammode, Female Atro, Godmanni, Pearsi, and Robertsoni. Plus 1 large reg pleco, a 6" Raphy cat, and a Blythe loach.
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Kaosu wrote:

Until 1/12/2012 at midnight.

...we are all a year to late!!! ^_^

..mmm let me get the camera batteries charged up on the camera >.>

Party pooper!!




Least someone is on the ball!

Went and found a pic that was of my first tank that got me back into the hobby and its replacement that soon followed. I was away from fish keeping for over 20+ years and my first tank was a 65g breeder sized with the intention of a single male midas. I soon realized I wanted more fish and a bit larger of a tank. So the one on the floor was my 5ft 120g.
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Couple pics of each Setup here:



235gal with WC Umbee pair.
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The 160 with a silver aro, Polleni, Black Belt, Red Isletas, WC Red Terror and Lap Poly.

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man addicted i was thinking that first one looked a little bland.. and then i realized thats that huge room divider you snagged at AP. looking nice man, just had to share

Thanks man! Amazing what a little paint and elbow grease can do! Dried saltwater algae is worse than 2-part epoxy

DMD123 wrote:Went and found a pic that was of my first tank that got me back into the hobby and its replacement that soon followed. I was away from fish keeping for over 20+ years and my first tank was a 65g breeder sized with the intention of a single male midas. I soon realized I wanted more fish and a bit larger of a tank. So the one on the floor was my 5ft 120g.
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Haha! well said. Nice to know I am among others where bigger is never really big enough lol

thechad, those bottom two pictures have easily got to be the coolest aquascape-type pics I have seen in some time! The rock layout and that poly posted up are awesome! well done

ok here are some of mine..

65
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40
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30
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25 shrimp/ left over killifish tank
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20Lcons
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20l killifish
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17g multie tank
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16g betta and paradise / purple snail breeder
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10g peacock gudgeon and betta (breeder box attached)
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7g shrimp tank
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..I have more but ill have to get better pics.

Addicted2CAs wrote:thechad, those bottom two pictures have easily got to be the coolest aquascape-type pics I have seen in some time! The rock layout and that poly posted up are awesome! well done

Thanks Addicted, put some thought on how to safely house and breed a smaller fish in a predatory atmosphere. Little did I know a pair of Kribs are a force to be reckoned with. The male is the only fish that's ever bitten me. Feels like when you put your tongue on a 9V battery....ha! The male easily defends that corner, the Poly stays at the other end of the tank. Those rocks I cut out of slate and mounted them on a sheet of acrylic. There is also a hollow rock in betted in the back. You can see where the Kribs breed from the side of the tank.

got some tanks of my own, just snagged updated pics so i could upload and show off a bit.
gf's discus tank plus a close up of the pair guarding fry
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my 125 mbuna tank
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my favorite fish (my OB labeotropheus fuelleborni) color variant where both males and females carry the OB pattern.
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my 10g fry tank w/ 3d background plants and LED lighting, currently full of white top hara (larger ones) yellow tail acei (little guys) and brevis sp. minuta ( too small to really see but there is a larger one in photo )
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my 6.6g fluval edge acrylic tank (occupied by my brevis pair and their most recent spawn)
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and finally my big ole catfish (and yes i know he needs a bigger tank )
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Looking good Anthraxx! Ive been trying to figure out what I want to do with my 56g, so it was nice to see pics to get some ideas.

Love the "catfish". He is fine, after all they only grow to the size of their tank, right?

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NICE, what kind of shrimp?

Here are 2 more tanks in my collection. One is a 285gal that I just set up, so its still a bit hazzy. The other is my sons 75gal African tank.

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That vine look in the back is epic, nice work madness! What are you stocking it with?

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NICE, what kind of shrimp?

in this one just cherry shrimp

Addicted2CAs wrote:That vine look in the back is epic, nice work madness! What are you stocking it with?

Right now i have my hoga, Argentea, and Zo's in it, but i think the hogs are coming out today, they are not playing nice.

That would seem to be the perfect stock for that "rivers edge" type setup. Now I'm going to have to come see it

And the winners are.......?

Just used a random number generator to determine the winners.

1. DMD123
2. Kaosu
3. Madness

Once #1 picks, then #2 can pick then #3 can pick. PM me with what you pick

YAY! ^_^ PICK DMD so i can...

Well I decided to go with:
1st Package: 16.3oz Package of Massivore Delight and 6oz package of Jumbo Carnivore Sticks

aww:( that was the one i needed
ok #3 i guess for me ....are they sinking pellets?...i need sinking pellets

Wow, I almost forgot, in all the excitement.

A big THANK YOU to Aquarium Co-Op and Hikari for sponsoring this contest!

DMD123 wrote:Wow, I almost forgot, in all the excitement.

A big THANK YOU to Aquarium Co-Op and Hikari for sponsoring this contest!

ahaha yeah!!! thank you Cory and Hikari!!!