August Freshwater Photo of the Month Contest Submissions

[neilanh]

Please submit your pictures for the August POTM contest.

Please refrain from discussing the photos in this thread. Only information about the particular photo will be allowed. Start a new thread if you wish to discuss a particular photo.

The Rules:

• All photos must be original photos taken by you or photos of your tank. (please do not submit photos of another persons tank unless you have written permission from them to do so. If you do please include this written permission with your submittal)
• All photos must be submitted in .jpg format and should be limited in size to 800 x 600 or 600 x 800 depending on layout and a file size no larger than 250KB.
• All submissions should include the common name and scientific name of the subject contained within the frame.
• All submissions should also include helpful information relating to the background of the subject, care requirements, etc.
• Only 1 photo submission per month per member.
• No photo editing other than resizing is permitted.

Submissions for the August POTM will be taken until 8pm EST on August 24th.

 

[Deckape]

Taken at the Bellagio in Las Vegas at the Fountain.

 

[eyring2210]

Bolivian Ram

One of my Bolivian Ram.

 

[jpchin]

here is a picture of my blue ram. he is about 6 months old. he lives in a 45 gallon community planted tank with another blue ram (also 6 months old) dwarf gouramis, plattys, glo fish, mollys and 2 south american cat fish. rams need a lot of care but are well worth it in my opinion. the most important thing? water changes. i do one (about 7-8 gallons) every third day using ro water with added trace elements.

 

[Retired_AF]

Crowntail Betta (Betta Splendens)

I picked this one up not too long ago. I couldnt resist because of the way his fins look with large portions actually clear and other parts light blue. My wife suggested naming him. Being the jokester I am I told her I thought he looked Irish so I was naming him Gill-bert Fin-negan. The name stuck.



He resides in a 1.5 gallon tank with a rock decoration and some live anacharis. Sometimes he likes to sit on one of the loops formed by the strands of the plant, like sitting on a swing.


He eats dried blood worms and betta flakes (only 1 type per day) with one day each week as a fasting day.

 

[Vircomore]

Garra Flavatra, The Panda Garra

This little guy is a close relative of the Garra Ruffa, also known as the "Manicure Fish". As you can tell in the picture, he is more than happy to manicure my hand while I manicure his home.

Care:
Current Size: 2" (Max 4.5")
Temp: Standard Tropical
pH: Neutral (hardy)

Diet: New Life Spectrum (and occasionally my hand), Zucchini, and Biofilm that grows on tank glass.

 

[hippy guy]

This is my planted 10 gal with diy c02
Kuhlis, a crowntail, and shrimp (including a vampire shrimp, and lots of cherries and amanos

 

[LyndaB]

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This is Apache, my African Featherfin Catfish (synodontis eupterus). This species has the nickname Featherfin Squeaker, in honor both of the incredible feather-like high fin and also the noise they make to communicate. Eupterus is Greek for "beautiful wings". He also has spooky blue eyes.

Apache resides in a planted 75 gallon tropical tank with blood parrot cichlids and emperor tetras. There is a sand substrate which accommodates his gorgeous feathery barbels.

Temp: 79
Food: frozen mysis shrimp and plankton, cichlid flakes, bloodworms, shrimp pellets, algae wafers

 

[tornadonick]

Xiphophorus maculatus/platyfish
one of my baby platys swimming in his new home

 

[Sparky74]

Pictured:

-Clown Loach (Chromobotia macracanthus)
-Hammers Cobalt Blue Lobster, Electric Blue Crayfish, Everglade Crayfish, Florida Crayfish(Procamberus alleni) aka Pinchy
-Red-Tailed Shark (Epalzeorhynchos bicolor) aka Jaws

They are fed a combo of spirulina meal tablets, algae wafers, bottom feeder tablets, blood worms, etc.

 

[Bully405Customz]

These are my two peacock eels. They are in a planted 55 gal with a feather fin and a dinosaur birchir. Lovely creatures to watch and they get along great.

 

[Ant329]

Here is my gold nugget plecostomus (L- 018). He is just lounging against his own cave so i can take this picture of him!! He's not camera shy at all. Enjoy!

 

[alLexX]

my female betta investigates the camera
http://www.aquariumadvice.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=48155&stc=1&d=1313673158

 

[Seiri]

Black Neon Tetras in my 55gallon tank..they are almost too fast for the camera!

 

[mwestendorf]

Follow the Leader

My three convict hybrids playing follow the leader

The full size image can be found here

The wife got a new camera to use at work so I wanted to play around with taking pictures of my fish.

 

[Mattefect]

My African knife fish.
Years:1 and a half
Ph:7.2
Length:10cm

 

[Big-j]

My DTHM betta Freddy

 

[jackspratt]

My POTM

Title: Little Oasis
Red Cherry Shrimp Tank

 

[Oscarr19]

My Bolivian ram and Cory greeting each other. Not much but couldn't get a decent picture of my other fish. They just don't sit still