Official People's Choice Discus Award !!!Congrats

[brewmaster15]

Hi all,
We are closing out this years Challenger contest. Many of you have had the pleasure of watching these fish grow out... and Now you will have a chance to Vote on what we are calling the "Peoples's Choice Award" This award is one that you will make by looking at these fish and voting on which group looks the best to you. Its subjective we know, but hey "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder" so have fun. We have removed the name of the contestants here and assigned a letter. Its not a secret whose fish is whose, you can easily determine that if you spend a little time looking at the contest board threads. We removed the names because we want you to vote on the fish..not the fish keeper!

The winner of this award will have a place of honor in the forum, and more.. They will win a special clay creation thats been generously donated by our own 'Delightful Designs" Barb... They will also win a stunning "SimplyDiscus T shirt ... and lastly they will have the choice of either a lifetime Premium Platinum Membership here at Simply, or a 500 gram bag of AquaticSuppliers.com Freeze dried Blackworms ( their choice)

Now This prize you are voting is only part of the Contest.. After you have determined the Peoples Choice Winner...I will be awarding the Grand Prize (AKA NADA AWARD) and Second Place Prize (AKA..Awesome Job Award)which are cash prizes in the amount of $500 and $277 respectively. These 2 awards will be judged by me personally as agreed upon by all contestants.. In these I will be looking at multiple factors including participation, content, updates, and the quality of what they acheived as fish. Its going to be a very hard decision for me. These contestants are all winners to me for their commitment but I can't award them all prizes.

Thank you and please vote...voting will end tomorrow at 9:00 am eastern time ( aka...my time in CT)

-al

[Second Hand Pat]

Contest Group A

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[Second Hand Pat]

Contest Group B

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[Second Hand Pat]

Contest Group C

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[Second Hand Pat]

Contest Group D

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[Second Hand Pat]

Contest Group E

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[Second Hand Pat]

Contest Group F

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[brewmaster15]

Hi all,
Posts about whose fish are whose will be removed no explanation given, and as will posts of which fish are better than the others...This is a VOTE... not a discussion.

Please respect that ... hate to be a stick in the mud on this one...But the contestants and staff having been working very hard on this... If anyone "trolls" I will ban you..Period.

Just cast your vote and let the people decide in a good old fashioned vote.

best of luck to all!!
-al

ps... details on the other 2 awards will be posted latter.

[brewmaster15]

All,
I am hearing the poll may not show if you access the forum using an app... you may need to actually log in on a computer...can't do anything about that on my end.

Also... please do not Vote by Posting your letter choice...it must be in the Poll... If you don't see the poll.. log in from a computer.

Thanks,
al

[Second Hand Pat]

Hey guys,

For those using an iPad or iPhone you can see the poll and vote using the native browser. If you are using TapaTalk it will not show the poll.

Pat

[Fundulopanchax]

Thanks to All Contestants! I cannot tell you how much I have enjoyed following all of the posts. I have learned a lot and hope soon to have the guts to enter myself!

Ron

[brewmaster15]

People ,Please please please read the directions here.:) I know we get excited when we see beautiful Discus, but please DO NOT POST YOUR VOTE!!!!!...just use the poll to vote.

Thank you!
Al

[Second Hand Pat]

Folks, down to the last 20 min. Please vote if you have not already.

[brewmaster15]

Guys the poll is now closed. I said 9:00 am and that is the end point we have a winner!

al

[brewmaster15]

The Winner of the "Peoples Choice Award" goes to Rick for his Fish from the Ogon Yellow white X ARSG.... It was a close vote but the People have spoken!!
Congratulations Rick!! and congrats to all the other contestants for producing some beautiful Fish!!!!

The Identifications of the groups here are as follows..

Group A : Tony .... fry from Albino (spotted) Turqs
Group B : Rick......fry from F1 (Ogon Yellow White X ARSG) X 2009 contest winner that I had purchased from Chad Hughes.
Group C : Josh......fry from Blue Turq X Blue Turq /Red mellon Cross
Group D : Josie.....fry from Blue snakeskin X Blue Diamond
Group E :Ryan......fry from Stendker Fire Reds
Group F :Ryan......fry from Albino Millenium Gold X Virgin red

Congrats again!!!

-al

[nc0gnet0]

Al,

Just to clarify, the male was a cross between an ogon yellow white and an ARSG (my first pair ever to breed). I then took that male F1 and crossed it with the 2009 contest winner that I had purchased from Chad Hughes. These two fish produced my contest fish.

Thanks to all that voted!

-Rick

[brewmaster15]

Lol...Correction made...I just think its cool that offspring from a previous Discus Contest here, made to the winners circle again.

Thats continuity for you!!

-al

[OC Discus]

Rick,

Congrats on 1st place.

I was sure the first fish was yours. Looks like your avatar. Is it one of your offspring?

[Kal-El]

Congratz Rick... it's a really beautiful fish...

[Skip]

The Winner of the "Peoples Choice Award" goes to Rick for his Fish from the Ogon Yellow white X ARSG.... It was a close vote but the People have spoken!!
Congratulations Rick!! and congrats to all the other contestants for producing some beautiful Fish!!!!

Congrats again!!!

-al

http://www.northridgewest.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/cleansweep.jpg

SWEEP SWEEP SWEEP!

[nc0gnet0]

Looks like your avatar. Is it one of your offspring?

My avatar picture was taken during the contest. It actually is a photo of the 2009 contest winner I got from Chad hughes (which is the mother) and the fish that won this years people's choice award when he was 2 1/2".

[MKD]

Congrats Rick!!!! Let's do it again.

[Chad Adams]

Congratulations Rick!!!

[BODYDUB]

Wow, Group A almost made a comback win................