I dearly enjoy seeing the tanks submitted by various aquarists, and voting for them, too (which always ends up much harder than I expect it to be!), but from a fishkeeping standpoint, I put more emphasis on my fish than I do tanks, and as a result, I don't have any "display-worthy" tanks; just some with bits and bobs cobbled together to form some semblance of an environment a fish might prefer, and some tanks I don't believe are aesthetically pleasing enough to enter. I mean, a bare-bottomed tank with some bark, pleco caves, and leaves scattered about with a massive sponge filter in the back corner is hardly going to merit much attention at all.
One thing I think has been a bit more of a complication recently is the lack of publicity (?)- I somehow didn't stumble upon this thread until yesterday, and was left wondering whatever happened to the POTM and TOTM until now. Perhaps more frequent bumps with an update on the number of submissions might help encourage more participation?
I do think that monthly TOTMs might be too frequent nowadays; perhaps every three or four months might be a bit more adequate.
Being relatively new to this forum still, I don't know the extent of a mod's powers, nor do I know if one exists, but a TOTM "hall of fame" stickied thread would be nice, just for the sake of looking at various winning tanks.
Might be a wee bit pretentious, but I suppose winners could be encouraged to put their achievement in their signature, in place of a medal.
Just tossing around ideas at this point; I personally don't want to see TOTM gone, as it's something nice and unique within this forum, I think.
I've got a good couple of empty nano tanks sitting around, and some seiryu; I might make a scape and participate in the next TOTM if there will be one.
