Round three, August 2014

For this month's round one of our members - Inza - has kindly donated a] Two Discus which are surplus to his requirements



(The smaller one in the centre of the pic.)



And lastly - the two together:



and b] a selection of pieces of Aquarium Wood.



(The CD is there to show scale of the wood pieces - NOT part of the prize!!!) (

Many thanks go to Inza for the very kind - not to mention generous - offer of these fish and wood as prizes.

I think Inza's reason for offering the two Discus is that they are getting rather sidelined by his larger Discus and aren't doing as well as they might do otherwise.
As you can see from the pictures they are both healthy fish, which he assures me are feeding well so are healthy specimens.


I've copy-and-pasted the last bit of the previous Forum Post:

Now, if you'd like to send me your entries to this address:

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we'll get the thing running.

Here's a link to the Rules...

www.irishfishkeepers.com/index.php?optio...&id=33956&Itemid=200

Good luck everyone.



John

edit: This will be locked once the first entry arrives and no submissions will be published until after round 2 finishes at midnight this coming Sunday. It will be unlocked for comments after the voting has ended (as with previous Comps).

edit II: Right - Inza has decided that Round 3 will take the form of two (fairly) parallel comps - One (for the Discus fish) to be a round of Discus pictures and the other (for the wood) to be an 'anything goes' round (as long as it's fish-or fish-related).
Not unreasonably the Discus prize is to only be awarded to an existing Discus-keeper (or at least one who has provisions for such fish).
Entries will close on August 31 at midnight.

swai wrote:

Very nice of Inza!

It goes without saying that if any other members have items around the place which they feel would make appropriate Competition Prizes then please offer them (by PM please).

John

Darkslice wrote:

is there a theme?

I'm not altogether certain yet - perhaps, since Inza donated the prizes it would be only fair that he suggests one (if he so desires).
Over to Inza.

John

OK then, no further offers have been received for August's Round (three) so we'll settle for Inza's very generous donation.
As previously mentioned, this round will be split into two sections: The Discus part will be for Discus pictures alone while the part of the round with the wood as prize will be our usual 'Fish-or-Fish-related' theme.
Obviously you will be more than welcome to enter into both - or either -section, bearing in mind the above caveat.

Just to reiterate Inza's own stipulation that the Discus will only be awarded to a member who will be able to provide appropriate accommodation for them - so, in preference an established Discus 'person'.

Entries, then, to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. to, please, include your Forum user-name.

Good luck to all.

John

JohnH wrote:

swai wrote:

Very nice of Inza!

It goes without saying that if any other members have items around the place which they feel would make appropriate Competition Prizes then please offer them (by PM please).

John

We have been very kindly offered a donation of young Angels from Miamiheat as prize in the non-Discus part of this month's competition.
Here is part of his email pertaining to the offer:

"Meant to write you before but following the example of Inza I can add 10 angelfish to the non-discus prize , they are "muts" but very pretty and go from 5-6 cm to 8-9cm. The catch is I need someone to hold them as I'd like to reduce bioload and i dont want to wait a month. I am in Dublin 8 near SH.
Photos are illustrative they may not be these exact same ones. Would probably try to put 5 black ones and 5 silvery ones. They look even better than the pictures".







Please note Miami's 'catch' - these fish will need to be looked after by someone until the round completes - any volunteers?
NB Please note that - as per the Rules the thread has now been locked so if anyone can help out in respect of holding the fish until the end of the month could they please either contact Miamiheat or myself via PM to arrange this.

EDIT:
Miami has now kindly told me that he will be able, after all, to hold his Angels until the round ends.

Since we now have two donations for the non-Discus section of this round it has been decided that the winner in this section will have their choice of either the Wood or the Angels so whoever's entry is placed second will be given whichever the winner doesn't want (does this make sense? - It does to me but there again I'm writing it, so I understand what I'm trying to say!!!)

John

John

Here's our first entry in the Discus section of Round three:

D1:

And now for a less-than-sneaky 'boost' to keep this on page one of 'Recent Topics'...

Any more?

John

That ploy paid off then - we have a non-Discus entry #O-1

...and again, now we have Entry O-2:

Entry #O-3

Now here we have entry #O-4 in the Non-Discus category:

Another non-Discus entry - #O-5

And (at last) a second Discus entry #D2

Another entry in the Non-Discus part of the round: #O-6:



Some more Discus snapshots would be nice (hint, hint).

John

Another (not very original) memory 'jog' - it's a fortnight to go people - some more entries (especially Discus ones) would be very welcome.

John

That 'jog' paid off - here's Entry #D3



John

Two entries in the same day!!!
Here's Entry O-7:



And #D4:



Any more (says he, hopefully).

John

...and another.
Entry #O-8



John

Entry O-9:



Entries are coming thick and fast now (well...).

John

Entry O-10:

(Another little 'memory jog' to get this back to everyone's attention...).

One week to go.

John

Another non-Discus entry #O-11:

Entry #O-12 (Non-Discus).



All entries to be in by midnight - so if anyone who wants to enter, but hasn't so far, well twelve hours to go, some more Discus pics would be nice.

John

Entry O-13: