The Big Fish Deal is an event to bring together aquarium enthusiasts and transform the Gaithersburg Hilton into an aquatic paradise on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, March 4-6, 2016.
The aquatic paradise will be in the hotel's lobby. We need your entries in the AQUARIUM BEAUTIFUL CONTEST to fill and decorate the lobby. I am sure you have enjoyed looking at the entries in all the previous contests. They are mostly fantastic and usually you learn how many different ways there are to set up an aquarium.
Please participate this year. We need at least 15 entries to make the hotel's lobby look good. If you cannot bring one yourself, help someone else, encourage someone else to do so. Or join forces with a friend and bring one between you. You can figure out later who gets the prize or how to split it.
If you need help after you get the tank to the lobby entrance, we can help you move it from the car or truck into the lobby. Just let me know. There will be a hose with water from the hotel available to fill your tank. We have used the hotel's water for a few years now without problems. You will need something to remove chlorine and such.
We will have ribbons for first, second and third places in each of 6 classes. We've added a Planted tank class this year. There will be prizes for BEST IN SHOW, PEOPLE'S CHOICE AWARD, and Aquatic Gardners Association (AGA) winners. THe AGA prize will go to the best planted tank.
Class 1 NANO TANKS _____UNDER 10 GALLONS
Class 2 MEDIUM TANKS ___10 TO 29 GALLONS
Class 3 LARGE TANKS _____30 GALLONS AND LARGER
Class 4 CARES TANKS _____ANY SIZE TANK AND AT LEAST ONE
CARES FISH
Class 5 THEMED TANKS ____ANY SIZE TANK AND ANY DECOR AND
A THEME NAME
Class 6 PLANTED TANKS ____ANY SIZE TANK AND LIVE PLANTS
You can enter a tank in all classes that apply. For instance, a nano tank with CARES fish and live plants could be entered in classes 1, 4, and 6.
You can enter as many tanks as you want to enter. No limit.
Please enter you tank or tanks by responding to this thread, or if you want to keep it secret until show time, just email me at cowherdfg@gmail.com All I need is Class or Classes and tank size and your name.
You can set up in the lobby starting at 5PM on Friday March 4, 2016. Bring a power strip for the number of plugs you need to plug in (heater, light, filter).
If you have questions, email me at cowherdfg@gmail.com
The aquatic paradise will be in the hotel's lobby. We need your entries in the AQUARIUM BEAUTIFUL CONTEST to fill and decorate the lobby. I am sure you have enjoyed looking at the entries in all the previous contests. They are mostly fantastic and usually you learn how many different ways there are to set up an aquarium.
Please participate this year. We need at least 15 entries to make the hotel's lobby look good. If you cannot bring one yourself, help someone else, encourage someone else to do so. Or join forces with a friend and bring one between you. You can figure out later who gets the prize or how to split it.
If you need help after you get the tank to the lobby entrance, we can help you move it from the car or truck into the lobby. Just let me know. There will be a hose with water from the hotel available to fill your tank. We have used the hotel's water for a few years now without problems. You will need something to remove chlorine and such.
We will have ribbons for first, second and third places in each of 6 classes. We've added a Planted tank class this year. There will be prizes for BEST IN SHOW, PEOPLE'S CHOICE AWARD, and Aquatic Gardners Association (AGA) winners. THe AGA prize will go to the best planted tank.
Class 1 NANO TANKS _____UNDER 10 GALLONS
Class 2 MEDIUM TANKS ___10 TO 29 GALLONS
Class 3 LARGE TANKS _____30 GALLONS AND LARGER
Class 4 CARES TANKS _____ANY SIZE TANK AND AT LEAST ONE
CARES FISH
Class 5 THEMED TANKS ____ANY SIZE TANK AND ANY DECOR AND
A THEME NAME
Class 6 PLANTED TANKS ____ANY SIZE TANK AND LIVE PLANTS
You can enter a tank in all classes that apply. For instance, a nano tank with CARES fish and live plants could be entered in classes 1, 4, and 6.
You can enter as many tanks as you want to enter. No limit.
Please enter you tank or tanks by responding to this thread, or if you want to keep it secret until show time, just email me at cowherdfg@gmail.com All I need is Class or Classes and tank size and your name.
You can set up in the lobby starting at 5PM on Friday March 4, 2016. Bring a power strip for the number of plugs you need to plug in (heater, light, filter).
If you have questions, email me at cowherdfg@gmail.com
