June 2020 TOTM Winner.... Manakh!

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Congratulations to M manakh for a beautiful tank and photo!
The dog may have suckered some people in, but the tank itself and inhabitants are just as gorgeous!

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Congratulations to M manakh for a beautiful tank and photo!
The dog may have suckered some people in, but the tank itself and inhabitants are just as gorgeous!

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Next up is photo of the month with kno4te kno4te ! Send in those photos to monsterfishcontests@gmail.com

-GS

Congrats!!! Well deserved win. ?
 
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Thank you for the votes everyone!

Tank measures 96x30x30
Back ground and wood is all from Aqua Decor out of Serbia Europe.
Every larger rock in the tank has been collected from rivers ranging from Wa state to very far Northern British Columbia during my various salmon and steelhead fishing excursions over several years, and each rock has been from a memorable moment during these trips like a super big fish or personal best for example.

It's hard to see them in the pic but the inhabitants are 2 female wild colombian festae from rapps before he sold (to my limited knowledge the only batch of festae from Colombia ever?), 3 WC gephyrum 2m1f, 2 male synspillum, 1 female white/orange citrinellum, 1 ugly pearsei that just never got any color, and a school of wild Dawkinsia Filamentosa barbs.

I will be adding a few more filament barbs (growing out currently) and I think a red or yellow chalceus (wife wants one) and then eventually I want to remove the pearsei because it's just so drab looking.

The comments on the dog were cracking me up, truthfully I didn't intend to have her in the pic but she kept photo bombing because her bed is right next to the tank!! Any full tank shot photos I have without her the lighting is terrible, there's tons of micro bubbles from just setting it up, or the cat is up there on her back legs looking at the fish.
I just set this tank up during this Covid 19 ordeal so I don't have oodles of pics.

The tank is in our living room so my wife gave me the go ahead to make it quite the spectacle since it's something we along with guests will be seeing all the time. Eventually we will put wood paneling around the tank and all you will see is the front of the tank.

if you have any questions feel free to ask
 
Congratulations on the win and also for your stock list and memorable rocks.
 
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Congratulations M manakh !
 
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Thank you for the votes everyone!

Tank measures 96x30x30
Back ground and wood is all from Aqua Decor out of Serbia Europe.
Every larger rock in the tank has been collected from rivers ranging from Wa state to very far Northern British Columbia during my various salmon and steelhead fishing excursions over several years, and each rock has been from a memorable moment during these trips like a super big fish or personal best for example.

It's hard to see them in the pic but the inhabitants are 2 female wild colombian festae from rapps before he sold (to my limited knowledge the only batch of festae from Colombia ever?), 3 WC gephyrum 2m1f, 2 male synspillum, 1 female white/orange citrinellum, 1 ugly pearsei that just never got any color, and a school of wild Dawkinsia Filamentosa barbs.

I will be adding a few more filament barbs (growing out currently) and I think a red or yellow chalceus (wife wants one) and then eventually I want to remove the pearsei because it's just so drab looking.

The comments on the dog were cracking me up, truthfully I didn't intend to have her in the pic but she kept photo bombing because her bed is right next to the tank!! Any full tank shot photos I have without her the lighting is terrible, there's tons of micro bubbles from just setting it up, or the cat is up there on her back legs looking at the fish.
I just set this tank up during this Covid 19 ordeal so I don't have oodles of pics.

The tank is in our living room so my wife gave me the go ahead to make it quite the spectacle since it's something we along with guests will be seeing all the time. Eventually we will put wood paneling around the tank and all you will see is the front of the tank.

if you have any questions feel free to ask
Very cool Back story
 
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