Design
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The Incredible Underwater Art of Competitive Aquascaping
Forest Scent, Pavel Bautin. Russia. 2010 IAPLC Grand Prize Winner
Pale Wind, Takayuki Fukada. Japan. 2013 IAPLC Gold Prize
Whisper of the pines, Serkan Çetinkol. Turkey. 2013 IAPLC Top 27
Verve!, Chow Wai Sun. Hong Kong. 2011 IAPLC Bronze Prize
Way to heaven, Dmitriy Parshin. Russia.
Wild West, Stjepan Erdeljić. Croatia.
Georgi Chaushev, Bulgaria. 2012 IAPLC Top 100.
Francisco Wu, Spain. 2012 IAPLC Top 100.
Long Tran Hoang, Vietnam. 2012 IAPLC Third Place.
Pilgrimage, Shintaro Matsui. Japan. 2013 IAPLC Fifth Place.
No, these aren’t exactly your childhood goldfish bowls. The world of competitive aquarium design, or aquascaping, is just as difficult, expensive, and cutthroat as any other sport but requires expertise in many different fields to guarantee success. Aquarium designers possess large amounts of expertise in biology, design, photography, and excel in the art of patience, as individual aquascapes can take months if not years to fully mature into a completed landscape.
The world’s largest nature aquarium and aquatic plants layout competition is the International Aquatic Plants Layout Contest (IAPLC) which annually ranks hundreds of competitors from around the world with Asian and Eastern European countries generally dominating the top slots. While it’s somewhat difficult to track down galleries of winners from every year, above are some amazing entries from the last few years. To see more, oh so much more, check out: IAPLC Grand Prize Works, IAPLC 2013 Top 6, IAPLC 2012 Top 200 (or here), and the first Eastern European Planted Aquarium Design Contest.
#aquariums #fish #plants
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