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Originally Posted by sphelps
You mean like Ryan's? Who finished in a close second in the latest popularity poll. I don't think too many people are concerned about the stand, after all it's a tank contest not a stand contest. A stand is a nice feature and certainly adds to the tank but not so much in this kind of contest.
I'm not sure I really see the point in a limited budget. To keep rich people out seems like a silly reason and even a little offensive. I think anyone should be able to enter and if someone wants to spend the money on an AIO or reef ready setup why not let them? I don't see an advantage in that, after all not everyone is super DIY handy so why put them at a disadvantage? One could say the same about DIY projects, handy people have just as much of an advantage.
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Someone who can only by frags as opposed to someone who buys huge colonies, well...limit the contest to frag size only or something. If you have money you can make a tank look good. simple as that. Look at the japanese tanks where as soon as the coral looks bad they remove and put in another, it always LOOKS good, but there is no sustainability. I'm not saying that all japanese tanks are like that.
I agree with the DIY aspect as well. But agian, I have seen rich and poor with absolutely no sense of the aesthetic so...make a contest with multiple categories, best stock nano, best diy, best aquascape, best frag, best colony, best softy, best overall...whatever. Competition is not a good thing anyway...it makes a poor society
