POTM TOpic Suggestions 2011

[Europhyllia]

I am so excited about next years POTM.

Lets make a list for Eve of topics we'd love to see.

Add your suggestion below and I will add it to the list in the first post here. :bigsmile:



Crustaceans
Mollusks
Tiny Fish
Huge Fish
Planted Saltwater Tanks
Bare Bottom Tanks
Reproduction (spawning, eggs, babies, etc.)
Liverock Critters
Fisheyes
Where's Waldo (pics where a critters is hiding or disguising)/camouflage and advantageous coloration
Structures Built By Critters
Nighttime shots
Big Mouth Fish
Commensal/Symbiosis/Relationships (shrimp/goby, shrimp/anemone, etc.)
Corals Feeding
Color
Action
Starfish/Echinoderms or Inverts or Fish Eating
Clownfish
Zoas and Palys
Reef Rock
LPS
Full Tank Shots
Pests
Anemones
Ugly Tank
Worst Picture
Topics Previously Covered:

2010:
Jan: Schooling Fish (winner was clownfish so we could revisit this topic with actual schooling fish if there's interest)
February: Seahorses
March: SPS any and all.
April: Box FishMay: Acans
June: Blennies & Mandarins & Shrimp
July: Brain/Favia
August: OPEN :) Your choice..
September: LPS any and all
October: Tangs any and all
November: Angel & Butterfly Fish

2009:
February: Tangs (clearly this topic has been overdone. No more tangs ;) )
March: Wrasses
April: Starfish
May: Blennies
June: Full Tank Shots
July: Leathers
August: Clams
September: Refugiums
October: Sponges
November: Favorite Fish

[Europhyllia]

oh and I am in no way affiliated with the POTM committee and plan on participating Every. Single. Month! (even if it means I'll have to buy a tang! lol)

[Scream311]

oh and I am in no way affiliated with the POTM committee and plan on participating Every. Single. Month! (even if it means I'll have to buy a tang! lol)

Lol too funny Karin.

How about Big Mouth Groupers ? Or Close up of Big Mouth Fish ?

[Jarob]

Corals during feeding!! I've got some AWESOME pictures of that!

[justahobby]

Have we done a symbiotic contest yet? I know a lot of people have pistol/goby, sexy/ricoridia, and clown/anemone pairs

[Kristy]

I like the "Big Mouth" idea and also the "Where's Waldo"!

This may seem like the dumbest idea ever, but it crossed my mind that we might get a lot of variety if our topic was a color, just "Red" or "Blue," etc. People would submit all sorts of different things, a detail on a fish, or a particular coral. Just thought it might get some creativity.

Also, what do you think of Action, some sort of shot that denotes action for a fish, or an anemone swaying, or a coral reaching and grasping, or even the wave of powerhead. I don't know, maybe better limited Aquarium Animals in Action.

I think we did Refugiums not too long ago. Might want to wait a bit before we do it again.

It's ALWAYS my intention to submit a picture and I never do. Gotta get me some photo skills.

[Scream311]

I like the "Big Mouth" idea and also the "Where's Waldo"!

This may seem like the dumbest idea ever, but it crossed my mind that we might get a lot of variety if our topic was a color, just "Red" or "Blue," etc. People would submit all sorts of different things, a detail on a fish, or a particular coral. Just thought it might get some creativity.

Also, what do you think of Action, some sort of shot that denotes action for a fish, or an anemone swaying, or a coral reaching and grasping, or even the wave of powerhead. I don't know, maybe better limited Aquarium Animals in Action.

I think we did Refugiums not too long ago. Might want to wait a bit before we do it again.

It's ALWAYS my intention to submit a picture and I never do. Gotta get me some photo skills.

I love these ideas Kristy ! Color only and Action ! Makes others guess on what the picture might be.

[Mr Cob]

Corals during feeding!! I've got some AWESOME pictures of that!

I like this one.

[Europhyllia]

I added a list of previous topics to avoid repetition :)

[Mr Cob]

Dang Karin! You are ON IT!

[Europhyllia]

:D
I think I joined MAAST in October of 2009. Couldn't find anything older than July 2009. Is this when the contest started? Or should I dig deeper?

[Kristy]

I think that's about right. And if it's not then time has passed so that we don't really remember them...

[justahobby]

:D
I think I joined MAAST in October of 2009. Couldn't find anything older than July 2009. Is this when the contest started? Or should I dig deeper?

Hm, I was going to guess May 23, 2009.... just a guess : P

[Scream311]

:D
I think I joined MAAST in October of 2009. Couldn't find anything older than July 2009. Is this when the contest started? Or should I dig deeper?

Lol I think your looking at my Join Date Karin :blushing:

[Pennies2Cents]

The 1st POTM contest was held in February of 2009. :)

[Europhyllia]

I was referring to the date when I actually started to pay attention. smarty pants. Both of you ;)

[Europhyllia]

I added the missing months. All there now :)

[Roo&Lis]

Night time lurking in the dark would be fun. I've seen some crazy stuff going on at 3am.

[Europhyllia]

Yes I agree. Great topic. I had already added it :)

More please ;)

[Scream311]

StarFish during Feeding

[Europhyllia]

how about we expand it to echinoderms feeding since we already had starfish?

[Kristy]

Echinoderms feeding... :bigsmile:! That amuses me. Sure you wouldn't prefer a broader category, such as Fish / invert feeding?

Plus we already know stangchris has that wicked shot of his starfish eating an asterina star.... who is gonna be able to compete with that? Of course, a shot of my basket star feeding would be pretty cool. Hmmm..... I hate it that my photo skills are so bad. Maybe I can ask for photography lessons for Christmas.

[Europhyllia]

Just do it!
Take pics. Post them. Don't worry. Enjoy

I think there could be some awesome urchin shots in the echinoderms feeding category! Fish feeding should definitely be a separate category ;)

[Scream311]

Echinoderms feeding... :bigsmile:! That amuses me. Sure you wouldn't prefer a broader category, such as Fish / invert feeding?

Plus we already know stangchris has that wicked shot of his starfish eating an asterina star.... who is gonna be able to compete with that? Of course, a shot of my basket star feeding would be pretty cool. Hmmm..... I hate it that my photo skills are so bad. Maybe I can ask for photography lessons for Christmas.

Krsity You Read My Mind. Was Hoping to Surprise You with a PM that said (hey guess what I convinced Karin to put a POTM for StarFish Feeding) and was hoping to submit those awesome pics of your Basket Star you showed Lisa and I lol

[Third Coast Tropical]

Clownfish
Zoanthids and palythoas
LPS (again)
Full Tank Shots
Symbiotic relationships (ex. pistol shrimp/goby, clown/anemone, cleaner wrasse or shrimp/larger fish)

[Third Coast Tropical]

Also, maybe camoflaouge/advantageous coloration (ex. grass eel, octopi, cuttlefish, flatfish, angler....all blending in with environment)..

[marcusgonzales210]

What about seeing who has the best picture of Real Reef Rock or any other kind of man made rock

[Europhyllia]

added it. some of the suggestions were very similar to what we already had on the list so I just expanded those closely related ones.
If I misunderstood any of tehm and they really should be separate please let me know :)

[ramsey]

Nano-reef had "pests" as a POTM contest which I thought was a pretty cool idea.

[tebstan]

What about seeing who has the best picture of Real Reef Rock or any other kind of man made rock

Sure, that's a good one. I got that. ;) (I love my rock shelf. It's the best. IMO. :D -Thanks Gabe)


The pest idea is awesome too - it glorifies the beauty of the things we hate, a lovely dichotomy. Some pests can be beautiful, but we're bent on eradicating them. I love my 'dirty' tank and all the weird microfauna challenges it brings. All part of the fun. Some of my favorite things in my tank came as weird unknown hitch hikers.

[ramsey]

Sure, that's a good one. I got that. ;) (I love my rock shelf. It's the best. IMO. :D -Thanks Gabe)


The pest idea is awesome too - it glorifies the beauty of the things we hate, a lovely dichotomy. Some pests can be beautiful, but we're bent on eradicating them. I love my 'dirty' tank and all the weird microfauna challenges it brings. All part of the fun. Some of my favorite things in my tank came as weird unknown hitch hikers.

The winner on nano-reef was a majano anemone. It was colored nice and looked really cool!

The only pest that I HATE with a passion is aiptasia. All other pests haven't been that bad really. Aiptasia is terrible though. :(

[Europhyllia]

So Eve what do you say. Did we come up with a good list? :)

[justahobby]

How about an ugly tank contest like nuisance algae or pest infested. Or a worst picture of the month to glorify those of us lacking in photo skills : p

[Pennies2Cents]

Thanks to all for your great ideas. Its awesome to have more to choose from. I was running out... Thanks Karin, for helping me out with this topic. :)

[tonyydeee]

Top down pictures?!

(since a bunch of peope just got photo boxes!)

Could be anything you want I guess? Just top down :P

[tonyydeee]

Also a tank being dominated by one coral (like when people buy a frag of GSP then it's covering half of their tank! Or xenia) ?

[butwa20]

sponges