June TOTM Winner is.... Tripping Willow 91!!!

[Tripping Willow 91]

Well if that's your first attempt at an aquascape my friend it is even more amazing.

Most people's first attempt at aquascaping is a rock and a melting piece of slushy Amazon sword with blue gravel, lol.

Again, well done, fully deserved

Haha sounds like a winning tank! I'd dabbled in plants before but this was my first properly researched scape. Loads of research, planning, time and effort went into this. I marked up a piece of cardboard with the footprint and got the hardscape glued together how I wanted it before adding to the tank and planting

 

[esoxlucius]

Haha sounds like a winning tank! I'd dabbled in plants before but this was my first properly researched scape. Loads of research, planning, time and effort went into this. I marked up a piece of cardboard with the footprint and got the hardscape glued together how I wanted it before adding to the tank and planting

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Wow, so that last picture is the very early stages when you first put it all together, and your competition picture is the finished product? How long did it take to get to competition level?

You've got to be using CO2 on that haven't you, it just looks too lush and healthy for it to be a low tech set up?

 

[esoxlucius]

Well done Tripping Willow 91 , a spectacular tank.
I actually entered myself this month but as soon as I saw your picture I knew it wasn’t going to be the month for me.

Yeah, it's a bummer that. You think you have a fighting chance and then some dude crushes your aspirations. It happened to me on POTM. I thought I had a pretty good entry but there were a lot of entries that month, a good few better than mine too. I still got about 5th or 6th though out of 20 or so, so not too shabby, lol.

 

[Friller2009]

Well done! I think Ogertron and I had the same problem!!
Were you running Co2 on that tank? Love to do something similar.

 

[Tripping Willow 91]

Wow, so that last picture is the very early stages when you first put it all together, and your competition picture is the finished product? How long did it take to get to competition level?

You've got to be using CO2 on that haven't you, it just looks too lush and healthy for it to be a low tech set up?

Yes that's right that picture is the day after I planted it all up and the comp photo is 6 months later.

The tank is no longer running, it became more maintenance than I wanted but yes I was injecting co2. My current tank is a lot less planted, more natural looking and way easier on maintenance ?

 

[Tripping Willow 91]

Well done! I think Ogertron and I had the same problem!!
Were you running Co2 on that tank? Love to do something similar.

Thanks, yes I was injecting co2 and in the end I was running lots of light on it

 

[Ogertron3000]

Well done! I think Ogertron and I had the same problem!!
Were you running Co2 on that tank? Love to do something similar.

Yeah, it's a bummer that. You think you have a fighting chance and then some dude crushes your aspirations. It happened to me on POTM. I thought I had a pretty good entry but there were a lot of entries that month, a good few better than mine too. I still got about 5th or 6th though out of 20 or so, so not too shabby, lol.

I guess it just the way it goes, you dont know what you will be up against until the voting starts.
Its all a bit of fun anyway, in this case the best tank of the month won fair and square.
It was bit of a landslide result this time, i got 1 vote so thanks to whoever that was!

 

[TerraChurch]

Congrats. It looks so wild and real.

 

[Tripping Willow 91]

Congrats. It looks so wild and real.

Thank you ?

 

[Chicxulub]

Congrats and awarded!