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    <pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 05:46:54 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>End of year competitions</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 07 Mar 2019 09:02:07 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>https://www.tropicalaquarium.co.za/threads/end-of-year-competitions.32027/</link>
      <guid>https://www.tropicalaquarium.co.za/threads/end-of-year-competitions.32027/</guid>
      <author>invalid@example.com (Hendre)</author>
      <dc:creator>Hendre</dc:creator>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Hi guys,<br />
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Sorry about the delay of the competitions. I&#039;ve been super busy lately, but am just working with the sponsor to confirm the prizes and get ready to send them all to you.<br />
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When I get the confirmation I&#039;ll get it rolling!<br />
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Regards,<br />
Hendre]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>January 2019 - Tank of the month entries!</title>
      <pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2019 10:02:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>https://www.tropicalaquarium.co.za/threads/january-2019-tank-of-the-month-entries.32083/</link>
      <guid>https://www.tropicalaquarium.co.za/threads/january-2019-tank-of-the-month-entries.32083/</guid>
      <author>invalid@example.com (hviviers75)</author>
      <dc:creator>hviviers75</dc:creator>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Hello Everyone,<br />
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Please post your tank of the month entries, our first for 2019!!!!<br />
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Entries closing a bit late this month on the 25th and then voting from 26-31 January<br />
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Thanks.]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>New competition sponsor, Quality marines SA!</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 15 Aug 2018 17:20:26 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>https://www.tropicalaquarium.co.za/threads/new-competition-sponsor-quality-marines-sa.31345/</link>
      <guid>https://www.tropicalaquarium.co.za/threads/new-competition-sponsor-quality-marines-sa.31345/</guid>
      <author>invalid@example.com (Hendre)</author>
      <dc:creator>Hendre</dc:creator>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Hey everyone! <br />
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Today I have big news, <a href="https://tropicalaquarium.co.za/members/7465/" class="username" data-user="7465, @Quality Marines SA">@Quality Marines SA</a> has been generous enough to sponsor us with some prizes for the competitions! A massive thanks to them for providing us with so many amazing products!<br />
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The prizes will be used for a grand <b>end of year competition! </b>Every winner from July-November will be <b>exclusively </b>entered for the December competitions, and the winner of each will recieve some prizes! The list is as follows:<br />
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Tank of the month:<br />
1 x...<br />
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<a href="https://www.tropicalaquarium.co.za/threads/new-competition-sponsor-quality-marines-sa.31345/" target="_blank" class="externalLink" rel="nofollow">New competition sponsor, Quality marines SA!</a>]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>King Coral and Orca Labs meme/joke competition!</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 20 Jun 2018 04:07:30 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>https://www.tropicalaquarium.co.za/threads/king-coral-and-orca-labs-meme-joke-competition.31007/</link>
      <guid>https://www.tropicalaquarium.co.za/threads/king-coral-and-orca-labs-meme-joke-competition.31007/</guid>
      <author>invalid@example.com (hails)</author>
      <dc:creator>hails</dc:creator>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<img src="attachments/66211/" alt="" class="bbCodeImage LbImage" /><br />
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Hi all,<br />
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Just a fun competition of your favourite (clean/family friendly) fish/aquarium joke or meme posted below (one entry per person).<br />
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King Coral has kindly donated the following prize for a randomly drawn winner:<br />
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500ml DIAMOND-CARBON ULTRA<br />
500ml ORGAN-EX-MICRO<br />
2 x MICRON ION-X mesh filter media bags<br />
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Check out the products and their descriptions on <a href="https://www.kingcoral.co.za/collections/orca-labs-sa" target="_blank" class="externalLink" rel="nofollow">https://www.kingcoral.co.za/collections/orca-labs-sa</a><br />
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Feel free to like the Facebook pages for...<br />
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<a href="https://www.tropicalaquarium.co.za/threads/king-coral-and-orca-labs-meme-joke-competition.31007/" target="_blank" class="externalLink" rel="nofollow">King Coral and Orca Labs meme/joke competition!</a>]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Superbru pool for aquarists, who will have the bragging rights?</title>
      <pubDate>Tue, 23 Jan 2018 14:43:20 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>https://www.tropicalaquarium.co.za/threads/superbru-pool-for-aquarists-who-will-have-the-bragging-rights.28403/</link>
      <guid>https://www.tropicalaquarium.co.za/threads/superbru-pool-for-aquarists-who-will-have-the-bragging-rights.28403/</guid>
      <author>invalid@example.com (Deadpool)</author>
      <dc:creator>Deadpool</dc:creator>
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That time of the year again...the Super Rugby starts in 7 days.<br />
In the aquarium hobby...everyone is a self proclaimed expert (or so they think), but are you a sporting expert as well...?! Now it&#039;s time to showcase your knowledge...just for fun...and bragging rights<br />
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<a href="http://www.superbru.com/superrugby/pool.php?p=11668473" target="_blank" class="externalLink" rel="nofollow">http://www.superbru.com/superrugby/pool.php?p=11668473</a><br />
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Pool name: South African Aquarists<br />
Pool code: shahtold]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Ad design finalists.</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 27 Sep 2017 22:33:49 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>https://www.tropicalaquarium.co.za/threads/ad-design-finalists.29884/</link>
      <guid>https://www.tropicalaquarium.co.za/threads/ad-design-finalists.29884/</guid>
      <author>invalid@example.com (Zebra Pleco)</author>
      <dc:creator>Zebra Pleco</dc:creator>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Hi everyone, because Tapatalk users are not able to vote on polls, we will instead use the &#039;likes&#039; feature as a voting system to choose the winner. So please click the &#039;like&#039; link on the post of your favourite picture, the one which you think we should use to advertise TASA in The Fishkeeper magazine. The picture with the most likes will win the prize.<br />
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The winner will receive a R500 gift voucher to spend online at Jungle Aquatics.<br />
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Voting will close in 1 week on Wednesday 27 September at...<br />
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<a href="https://www.tropicalaquarium.co.za/threads/ad-design-finalists.29884/" target="_blank" class="externalLink" rel="nofollow">Ad design finalists.</a>]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Picture of the month suggestion</title>
      <pubDate>Mon, 24 Jul 2017 14:39:14 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>https://www.tropicalaquarium.co.za/threads/picture-of-the-month-suggestion.29461/</link>
      <guid>https://www.tropicalaquarium.co.za/threads/picture-of-the-month-suggestion.29461/</guid>
      <author>invalid@example.com (rsa)</author>
      <dc:creator>rsa</dc:creator>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Hi all , so there are so many different areas of ones aquarium that you can take pics of . What about starting pic of the month ?]]></content:encoded>
      <slash:comments>17</slash:comments>
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      <title>Guppy Challenge 2</title>
      <pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2016 10:45:57 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>https://www.tropicalaquarium.co.za/threads/guppy-challenge-2.28009/</link>
      <guid>https://www.tropicalaquarium.co.za/threads/guppy-challenge-2.28009/</guid>
      <author>invalid@example.com (MariaS)</author>
      <dc:creator>MariaS</dc:creator>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Guppy Challenge 2 entries]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Best Aquascape and Fish Competition Winners</title>
      <pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2015 11:02:24 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>https://www.tropicalaquarium.co.za/threads/best-aquascape-and-fish-competition-winners.23443/</link>
      <guid>https://www.tropicalaquarium.co.za/threads/best-aquascape-and-fish-competition-winners.23443/</guid>
      <author>invalid@example.com (hails)</author>
      <dc:creator>hails</dc:creator>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<div style="text-align: center">This was an extremely difficult decision to make. We were all astonished by the amazing entries received. <br />
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The winner for the favourite/most unique fish - @<span style="text-decoration: underline"><a href="http://www.tropicalaquarium.co.za/member.php?u=4637" target="_blank" class="externalLink" rel="nofollow">JJFury</a></span><br />
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<img src="attachments/45693/" alt="" class="bbCodeImage LbImage" /><br />
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and the winner for the best/most creative aquascape - @<span style="text-decoration: underline"><a href="http://www.tropicalaquarium.co.za/member.php?u=925" target="_blank" class="externalLink" rel="nofollow">morris</a></span><br />
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<img src="attachments/45694/" alt="" class="bbCodeImage LbImage" /><br />
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Please could you both PM me your full names, addresses and...&#8203;</div><br />
<a href="https://www.tropicalaquarium.co.za/threads/best-aquascape-and-fish-competition-winners.23443/" target="_blank" class="externalLink" rel="nofollow">Best Aquascape and Fish Competition Winners</a>]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Best Aquascape and Fish Competition</title>
      <pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2015 07:50:16 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>https://www.tropicalaquarium.co.za/threads/best-aquascape-and-fish-competition.22993/</link>
      <guid>https://www.tropicalaquarium.co.za/threads/best-aquascape-and-fish-competition.22993/</guid>
      <author>invalid@example.com (hails)</author>
      <dc:creator>hails</dc:creator>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<div style="text-align: center"><span style="text-decoration: underline"><b><span style="font-size: 12px">To enter:</span><br />
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</b></span><span style="font-size: 10px">Post a picture in this thread ( <a href="http://www.tropicalaquarium.co.za/showthread.php?22993-Best-Aquascape-and-Fish-Competition" target="_blank" class="externalLink" rel="nofollow">Best Aquascape and Fish Competition</a> ) of your favourite/most unique fish and/or your best/most creative aquascape to stand a chance of winning one of the prizes below.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12px"><br />
Best/most creative aquascape prize:</span></b></span><br />
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<img src="attachments/44948/" alt="" class="bbCodeImage LbImage" /><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="text-decoration: underline"><b>Favourite/most...</b></span></span>&#8203;</div><br />
<a href="https://www.tropicalaquarium.co.za/threads/best-aquascape-and-fish-competition.22993/" target="_blank" class="externalLink" rel="nofollow">Best Aquascape and Fish Competition</a>]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Tank Thread Competition Winner!</title>
      <pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2014 08:16:01 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>https://www.tropicalaquarium.co.za/threads/tank-thread-competition-winner.21916/</link>
      <guid>https://www.tropicalaquarium.co.za/threads/tank-thread-competition-winner.21916/</guid>
      <author>invalid@example.com (hails)</author>
      <dc:creator>hails</dc:creator>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[The winner of the tank thread competition is ivan!<br />
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Well done <a href="https://tropicalaquarium.co.za/members/1848/" class="username" data-user="1848, @ivan">@ivan</a> <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" /><br />
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Please send me a PM with your details and address for your prize to be sent to you.]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Tank Thread Competition</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2014 18:05:48 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>https://www.tropicalaquarium.co.za/threads/tank-thread-competition.21570/</link>
      <guid>https://www.tropicalaquarium.co.za/threads/tank-thread-competition.21570/</guid>
      <author>invalid@example.com (hails)</author>
      <dc:creator>hails</dc:creator>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Update your tank thread or create a tank thread to update on the link below between now and midnight on 29 August 2014 to stand a chance of winning a great Seachem prize.<br />
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<a href="http://www.tropicalaquarium.co.za/forumdisplay.php?18-Members-Systems" target="_blank" class="externalLink" rel="nofollow">http://www.tropicalaquarium.co.za/forumdisplay.php?18-Members-Systems</a><br />
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The prize:<br />
<div style="text-align: center"><br />
 <img src="attachments/42314/" alt="" class="bbCodeImage LbImage" /><br />
&#8203;</div> <br />
This competition is open to those residing in South Africa.<br />
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Participant entries will be judged on content, information given and the quality of the thread as a whole.<br />
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The moderators...<br />
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<a href="https://www.tropicalaquarium.co.za/threads/tank-thread-competition.21570/" target="_blank" class="externalLink" rel="nofollow">Tank Thread Competition</a>]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Seachem DIY Picture Competition Winner</title>
      <pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2014 18:32:52 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>https://www.tropicalaquarium.co.za/threads/seachem-diy-picture-competition-winner.21200/</link>
      <guid>https://www.tropicalaquarium.co.za/threads/seachem-diy-picture-competition-winner.21200/</guid>
      <author>invalid@example.com (hails)</author>
      <dc:creator>hails</dc:creator>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<span style="font-size: 12px">The winner of the Seachem DIY Picture Competition is <a href="https://tropicalaquarium.co.za/members/4327/" class="username" data-user="4327, @Chongkie">@Chongkie</a><br />
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Well done! Please PM me your postal address and details for your prize to be posted to you.</span><br />
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<img src="http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag12/Man_Chun_Tam/Mobile%20Uploads/How%20it%20is%20made/IMG-20130511-WA0002_zps4e19815c.jpg" class="bbCodeImage LbImage" alt="[&#x200B;IMG]" data-url="http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag12/Man_Chun_Tam/Mobile%20Uploads/How%20it%20is%20made/IMG-20130511-WA0002_zps4e19815c.jpg" /><br />
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<a href="http://s1296.photobucket.com/user/Man_Chun_Tam/media/Mobile%20Uploads/How%20it%20is%20made/IMG-20130525-WA0001_zps4c81ad98.jpg.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink" rel="nofollow">[TABLE=&quot;class:...</a><br />
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<a href="https://www.tropicalaquarium.co.za/threads/seachem-diy-picture-competition-winner.21200/" target="_blank" class="externalLink" rel="nofollow">Seachem DIY Picture Competition Winner</a>]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Seachem DIY Picture Competition</title>
      <pubDate>Sat, 21 Jun 2014 07:22:59 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>https://www.tropicalaquarium.co.za/threads/seachem-diy-picture-competition.20698/</link>
      <guid>https://www.tropicalaquarium.co.za/threads/seachem-diy-picture-competition.20698/</guid>
      <author>invalid@example.com (hails)</author>
      <dc:creator>hails</dc:creator>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<span style="font-family: 'lucida sans unicode'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><img src="http://www.tropicalaquarium.co.za/banners/seachem1.jpg" class="bbCodeImage LbImage" alt="[&#x200B;IMG]" data-url="http://www.tropicalaquarium.co.za/banners/seachem1.jpg" /><br />
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<span style="color: #222222"><span style="color: #222222">This competition is kindly sponsored by Seachem.<br />
<br />
 To enter:<br />
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 Post a picture of any freshwater aquarium DIY project you have completed or are in the process of completing.<br />
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 Rules:<br />
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- One entry per person to be posted on this thread.<br />
- The moderators reserve the right to ask for further...</span></span></span></span><br />
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<a href="https://www.tropicalaquarium.co.za/threads/seachem-diy-picture-competition.20698/" target="_blank" class="externalLink" rel="nofollow">Seachem DIY Picture Competition</a>]]></content:encoded>
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