Definately agree. No "prize" should be involved.
And as for making it a contest... thats just plain dumb IMO.

Well it should set your minds at ease that there isn't going to be a prize. I have to wonder why anyone would care if there was though?

There should absolutely be no prize. I can't imagine anyone wanting anything but recognition for their tank to be featured.

the only one who seems to have brought up the prize was titus, the rest of us dont care we all seem to want a totm in some form or another. if canreef dosnt want to endorse this i say we do it ourselves within the canreef community. we can do the design, hosting and selection ourselves.

I'm not seeing the point in a tank of the month. Just everyone post pictures of their tank and the specs in the Tank Gallery and be done with it. :question: :question: :question: Is it the case that people don't voluntarily want to post their tank pictures and specs unless they get some sort of recognition?

What about something along the lines of 'Progression of Tanks'...?Having a tank of the month is a wonderful idea,but something like this would allow us all to display our tanks,from brand new ones to very established ones.So many of us have different ideas,different goals etc,if there were to be something along the lines of,lets say 'age' of tanks,from 0-6 months, 6months-1yr, 1-2 yrs etc,we can see eachothers as well as whos in 'our category' and watch the progression.A little write up from each of what size,stats etc,then a link to our own hosted picture gallery.Do an update every month per say.Then those who feel they love thier own tanks,but not up to 'snuff' with others at moment,wont feel so overwhelmed by tanks they admire but just cant compete with.Anyways,just a thought.... :)

I have to agree Sam. If people want to post pics of their tanks, why not do so? I do when the mood is right :lol:

Do I want to be TOTM with my butterfly/moorish idol/sps/clam reef? Or my 67g trigger/LPS, softie, zoo, chocolate star tank ? Not too bloody likely.

Why? Cause it won't work for the majority of people reading it.

While the "honour" of being TOTM is something, it really doesn't mean as much considering the rather small population we have here. But Sam did just give me another thought... Why not have EVERYBODY do a TOTM?
(What the hell did he just say???)

Think about it. It would be an invaluable resource for newbies and a great collaborative effort. If we can get additional hosting (it doesn't seem fair to overburden Canreef further), it should be fairly easy to get up.

Here's what I'm thinking:
Everybody does the RC-style TOTM spiel for their tank. That is almost always divided up into
- preamble about what got them into the hobby
- tank equipment
- tank denizens
- maintenance schedule
- things they really like or really dislike about what they did
- plans for the future

If everybody who has a tank they'd be willing to share (I have dozens of DIY under-construction photos I took which might benefit someone who is considering building a stand or a surge or a really poorly thought out canopy), we could each take a ton of photos of our tanks and then select a spread that gives the overall view, the equipment, some "behind the scenes" shots of how the fish room is laid out or how maintenance gets accomplished, several closeups of prized specimens (preferably with some time in between, so say Bryan can show how much his acros have grown in the space of 6 months), and then maybe a few shots of John skinny dipping with the belugas that night at the aquarium (or did everybody leave early???)!

Just a thought.. Perhaps a bad one. Somehow I think it would be a tremendous resource for fresh blood in the hobby, though. Getting a tour of someone's entire system from conceptualization to deployment is a far better education that having some dweeb on RC tell you "u should use the search button or post pics of urself!".

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Small Population?
Prizes, no prizes?
Bragging rights?
Too much work?

You guys really now how to suck the fun out of everything. :mad:

I've seen a lot of really good ideas here. I like the "featured" tank/tanks of the month best. I like how some people will volunteer to help out with this. Sure it would take a bit of work in the beginning to set up, but once it is I think it would be much easier to maintain. Much like a reef aquarium?

Just some more ideas I thought of. Why not post what the featured tank catagory will be for the next month. This puts the onis on the reefer to put themselves out there for the competition.
For example,
June's featured tank of the month will be Nano's.
If you have a nano tank contact the volunteer TOTM people with pics or whatever and try your luck. The next month could be getto reefs, or super tanks and on and on.

Read the numbers, we obviously want this.

TOTM isnt just about the pictures, it would list equipment, cleaning, livestock, the loverly cranberrry juice bottle they use for a collection cup, the soup can :eek: (yeah, i got rid of that a few months ago :P)

I check out the picture section here maybe once a month, and even then.. its just to drool at peoples corals/tanks. There is little or no information about how the tank is taken care of, what they are doing etc etc etc.

I don't think it should be voted on per se, but someone will have to make some sort of sellection. Not based on how 00ber it is, rather to change it up and show different types of tanks each time.

I think quarterly would be great for this small a board.

The greatest part of this would be that we could all share and comment on the tanks. Find ways that other people have saved some cash, where they have tried, and failed. What we would do if we had some of the same issues etc.

I can find tanks to drool over any where on the internet. Most of the time/money that they have for them is nothing but a dream for me, and frankly, I have enough unatainable dreams :P