r/Aquariums • u/Ka0tiK ​ • May 04 '22

May Picture of the Month (POTM) Contest Announcement

Hello everyone!

We are hosting a POTM (picture-of-the-month contest) again to try to kick things back into gear with activities. The theme for this month is "open" and can be any picture of your own system/aquarium/paludarium that you are proud of.

The following rules apply to submissions:

  • No past winning submissions.

  • Can be aquariums, ponds, tubs, other plastic containers.

  • Must be an actual aquarium and not a drawing, render, or online creation.

  • You must be the owner of said picture.

  • Must not break any current sub rules.

With all the other rules being the known ones:

  • Submissions will only be accepted via modmail. We get a lot of mail so please make the subject "POTM MAY" (all caps). If this isn't the subject we may miss your submission.

  • Submissions must be hosted on imgur

  • Only one submission per user

  • No watermarks or advertising of any kind

The submission period will end at 23:59 EST on 5/24. At the conclusion, a voting post will be made and voting will occur for 1 week. At the conclusion of the voting period, the votes will be counted, the winner determined and notified, and prizes distributed.

Prizes:

-Your picture will be the new sidebar picture of the sub for a month

-You will be awarded a special trophy flair. Due to flair constraints, for now this will replace your current flair, though you will have the option of switching back to your current flair if you choose, you will always have the option to display your 'PotM trophy'

Good luck to everyone! The mod team looks forward to your submissions!

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u/Traumfahrer May 05 '22

Hey there! Very nice to see this taking place here again!

Thanks for organizing this. It feels like we might've inspired you with our SotM photo contest on r/Boraras to restart this, but I guess that was just conincidence. :)

I'm excited to see the eventual submissions, I think I'll have something to contribute.

Good luck to all participants!

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u/thefishestate marine biologist May 09 '22

Lol we did this for many many years and retired it for a while due to lack of participation.

Not that we invented the PotM concept, just, lol.

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u/Traumfahrer May 09 '22

Well, I wrote "nice to see this taking place here again" and "restart" and I also said that it probably was "just coincidence". I actually took some inspiration from yours, but it hasn't happened since 2018.

A mod of one of the other big three aquarium subs said he'd like to do something like our SotM too, so it could've well been the case eventhough I doubted it. And I even chatted with one of your mods about this. You seem very offended?

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u/thefishestate marine biologist May 09 '22

Lol no you're just very excitable and it's nice to see.

And when you've been around the sub since 2012, then 2018 does seem pretty recent. Especially with the 2020-2022 gap in reality.

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u/Traumfahrer May 09 '22

Especially with the 2020-2022 gap in reality.

Yeah I can relate to that..

Thanks, that's my way to spead some motivation ;)