So sorry you didn't like how we did it. ;)

There was voting at the end of the yer for a tank of the year.
The idea behind it was to get an in depth view of somebody else's system to give people a chance to maybe get some new ideas or learn from other people's experiences.
The people participating were either nominated or nominated themselves.
I liked that system because it allowed us to see such a wide variety of tanks.

Making it a vote for the tank of the month thing tends to scale it down to a) who posts a lot about their tank so lots of people will know about it and b) who has a lot of friends voting for them

We would have missed out on getting to know Cheryl's seahorse breeding adventure, Troy's awesome set up and many others simply because those are people that while putting a lot of effort into their tanks, may not be into posting updates all the time.

It was super fun working with Lorraine and Cory on the TOTM features and I really enjoyed it. I think Cory is planning on resurrecting it in a different capacity this year.
One problem we ran into was it was hard to get enough nominations to come up with one each month. Just when we had it nailed down, somebody had an algae outbreak or something.