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They had problems at the beginning and some of the plants adopted hardly. Some of them melted too. And the opening ceremony was too close. In Niigata and Japan they have soft water. So Niigata and Tokyo/Sumida is kind of the same condition. No need special care. This was the first time when ADA...

Great photos Paulo :thumbup: It is an insane work both to build an maintain. No room for errors. Have you seen any Amano shrimp walking around in the room? :) From thousands of shrimps there should be some :)

OMG Paulo this one was amazing. Thank you for sharing it. Great work on the video gives back a little on the experiment. :thumbup:

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Great podcast from Scape Fu on behind the scenes from Jurijs who worked on this tank too. Worth to listen as many awesome facts and stories are there which is not published yet. http://www.scapefu.com/takashi-amano-underwater-forests/

Actually both nr2 and nr1 got the same point on total from 6 judges. But nr 1 had 4 1st place and 2nd had ony 2. ;)

Cheers guys. After a little delay we finished the contest and gave out all the awards to the bests. HAC Aquascaping Contest is a local contest which we organize and sponsor since 2009. The contest grown up with our local community and our company too. We live in symbiosis. :) This year we've...

50th Before the Creation of Adam by @keymaker Balázs Farkas from Green Aqua / Hungary Some may will criticize the minimalism and the fake background, but you can't be a winner til you came up with something new. Journal...

Thanks guys. The best ones received an extra notification in email to not share their image. For the rest i do not think you need to stay in cover.

Congratulation Iain :snaphappy::snaphappy::clap: How about Stu W? :) Mine comes in as 222. Had hoped a little better, but i was not that focused this year. Moss Forest - IAPLC 2014 - IAPLC rank 222 by viktorlantos, on Flickr However our team did great. Balazs came in for 50, our other team...

All of these tanks were stunning in excellent condition. George, Audrie, Gregorie and the Tropica team did excellent work. Hats off to Mick from Tropica who maintained all of this. Beautiful, the best booth from the expo with all the competition too. There were at least 70 planted tanks around...

Its a common practice in the states, but i rarely seen elsewhere when i worked in the creative agency world. It is a gentleman agreement between IAPLC and the contester. Noone will go to the court with this. Still rules are rules. Personally i would act much harder on other stuff like...

Its only about the print appearance. Never seen that someone would be disqualified for forum, FB posts. If it goes printed, magazine makes good money because of the hype and buzz.

You're giving out the right of that specific photo. Nothing else. You have other one where fish is in another form? Or created in a different stage of it's lifecycle. You can do anything with that ..... unless you're with the best ones where not just that specific image is protected, but they...

Well i am on the other side Tom. I am pleased to see whatever they show. If this is part of their work it's fine. Helps to understand what they had in mind, how they built it. What is their concept for the current contest. Even if i see the hardscape i can confirm it's a great work. The...

Had this in my mind too for a sec :) To do the Angel waterfall in Venezuella i can live with that top view :)

That is the winner for me this year :) May will see same awesome layout from the best ones, but i would give the trophy for him anytime.

It's a silly rule that you can't show your beauty if you're with the best ones on the contest. Some may built their tanks for 5-8 months for the contest. Send it at the end of may. Now it is the end of august and they still can't show it. It's hard to resist :) So the blacked out rockwork is...

I am with you George! :)

I am almost 100% sure you only seen the hardscape of the tank. If i am wrong i owe you a beer Tom :) Seriously do not think these tanks were public anytime before. Not even on their local boards. These guys keep protect their ideas, work to make a larger impact. There are weak ones for my...

Congratulation to all UK entrants and the best ones on top of it Stu, Ed :) Our team had 4 good shot however only one get a good ranking that i still could not show yet #46 Farkas Balázs - this is our highest rank this year. A Colorado theme with built massive rockwork and cactus trees from...

Congrat Stu and Ed! Great placements! Congrat to all entrants :)

Good luck to everyone. Will look forward to all entrants later. Great to see some buzz ;)

Cool, makes sense George. Sorry this was not my goal to turn the thread into a negative discussion. The scape is absolutely superb anyway. Are there a list somewhere where the first 10 is visible?

A few additional photos from one of our forum members at www.akvakertesz.hu http://www.flickr.com/photos/45422223@N ... 782516099/

Volker's tank is the best from all this isn't a question. Well deserved award! :clap: Frankly, i think even is someone pre-grow these plants it's an amazing work to set it up on the event. One thing which is in my mind. Isn't he the employee of Dennerle, one of the event sponsor? He had like 2...

Thanks for sharing Juri. Pitty that i could not be there. Good luck on the contest. :thumbup:

Yup the offical results are out on the 2011 contest. :angel: http://hac-aquascaping-contest.com/galeria-2011-01.html We had great guest judges this year too. Including George Farmer, Filipe Oliveira, Stan Chung. http://hac-aquascaping-contest.com/zsuri.html So i would like to say a big...

Thank you my friend. :angel: Very nice scape my friend. Yup maybe you're right the fishes on the photo looks a bit small in real life they could be amazing, but they are fast moving ones hard to capture and with more ligth they just burn into the scape sometimes. The front part is a bit dark...

Thank you my friend. :D

IAPLC 2011 #167 - Green Aqua - Viktor: IAPLC 2011 #227 - Green Aqua - Nigro: 2 of our other scape landed in the top 100. will publish that later. :D :angel:

That peak is not too bad especially if you see that in life. If i do a shot from the front, the peak reflection makes the photo interesting. However if you move up a bit or watching the stuff from the top the peak is a nice add on. We've seen many great tanks where people used up the full...

For fishes we plant to use a group of Boraras Brigittae to keep the mountain effect as much as we can. So we will see how that will work. :wink:

Cheers guys, thanks for your feedback. :thumbup: Yup one of the glass pipe broke. We're using an eheim there til the new glass arrive. One of our team member is using heavily these glasses. :D Luckily the scape survived the weekend. All mosses are in place and i do not see damaged parts...

Well maybe that's the best 14, then you will outperform most of the EU countries. ;) Good luck guys! ps: i also realized there are much less tank from Poland for example.

Some professional shot> http://www.flickr.com/photos/jfravn/set ... 402265830/ 1st place XL 2nd place XL 3rd place XL George and Dan's tank:

Thanks guys for the nice words. :wink: I am also happy that most of the participants put a bit more attention to the capture. Maybe they watched too much Mark, George and Tonser's tank here. :D Cheers :thumbup:

Thanks guys will let the participants know that. :wink: Nah, this is not true ofcourse, but we had a great mentor (judge) last year, who helped to give great feedback to them. They just used your feedback to do better. :wink: :thumbup:

Thanks guys for the nice words. Good to see the progress on the local planted tank scene. We started lately compare to UK for example, so still a long way ahead. But i am proud to the entrants. :wink: thanks for your feedback :thumbup:

Cheers guys, i thought might be interesting to share the following link: http://hac-aquascaping-contest.com/galeria-1.html We just announced the result of our 2nd local aquascaping contest. We're far from the UK masters, but as we spend more time here, the tanks getting better and better...

Thank you James :angel:

Brilliant video! So nice to see these tanks guys. Congratulations again to this event and especially to the tanks you all created. Can you remind me what light you used above the 3 pico tank? I am looking forward to something similar. Looks lovely there.

Re: Live aquascapes at a London art gallery Well done guys. Amazing aquariums, beautiful presentation. Well deserved success. :thumbup: Brilliant photos Tony, thank you for sharing these. :clap:

i do not believe this tank is in the top 100. top 100+ got a a letter to not release their photos til the party. some of the person may did that, but the most of the folks not. can't believe this particular photo is the one which got 100th placement. this maybe just guessing. that's the letter...

Re: Live aquascapes at a London art gallery i've seen you guys did for Tropica at interzoo. And based on my understanding you do the same now again but now without a giant's help. I can't imagine moving just your tanks to the event how much work really is... a lot! event like this move the...

oh here it is: http://www.littlegreencorner.com/aquari ... ndall.html

i would say this is not 100% sure these photos were sent to the competition. we will be sure from the contest book later, but they are close. currently everyone try to collect the entrants from blogs, forums, image gallerys, but not sure exactly the same photos were sent. on this one 419 i am...

Graeme, i do not think that's the case. I also entered to the contest with a few hundred other ADA distributors around the world. I bet in Japan many ADA aquascaping shop created at least one tank for the contest. There are no rules that ADA shops and its employees could not enter to the...

well to be fair as the one who is in the top 100 i really feels that i've seen much better tank than mine. maybe the one i did was closer to the green na style. but really i've seen some tanks from 200 and above. they are amazing. i also was lucky to see the "Dan Farmer" tank too at Interzoo...

Hi George, i've just seen the results too just a few minutes ago. :shock: :wink: Congrat to all entrants from UKAPS. I think we all had a bet that Peter will do great as allways. :thumbup: For my tank i am a bit supprised with the result. I do not think my tank is that strong, however i was...

The results are out: http://en.iaplc.com/results10/index.html 1819 applications from 55 countries! Congrat to the 15 UK entrants! Can't wait to see these tanks sometime. :thumbup:

wow impressive list guys. :thumbup:

today we had an award ceremony. as one of the decoration we set up a tank with an ADA style cabinet, soil and stones in less than 15 minutes on total. keymaker needed 5 minutes approxx to build this decor scape. :D he never seen the stones before so just throwed in all what we had in our...

cheers guys, in case if you're intrested we've announced the winners today on the contest. this is the first year here in aquascaping so whatever you see here is mostly inspired by your tanks. planted tanks become a real hobby in Hungary too, but we still have a lot of work ahead. would like...

Re: UKAPS @ Interzoo 2010 Steve, if you have some connection to the shops they may have some invitation which you could use. Worth a try. But only trade you're right.

Re: UKAPS @ Interzoo 2010 oh wow. this sounds amazing George! Congrat for you guys i bet this is a nice challenge for both of you. i really like the fact that companies started to support aquascaping and they ask help from its pioneers finally. Shipping tank to Germany isn't sound easy. So...

Hey Mark, This is very nice from you that you posted the Contest. :) We're very proud to have Mark on board for judging. We've seen many beautiful scapes in the past from him, as many amazing photos too. He is one of the key member of UKAPS and the one who inspired many of us. His skills will...

hey the photos look awesome just like the tanks. 25 pot glosso??? i thought i am fair good enough with the pinsettes and foreground planting but it looks like i am on level 1 only ;) great job with the booth! congratulations. the video was cool just like the photos. thanks for sharing all of...

Just seen this yesterday on aquaticplantcentral. Looks like we've got some extra days to complete our tanks. "Hello Aquascapers, Good news!! The Aquatic Gardeners Association has decided to extend the deadline for this year’s aquascaping contest until the end of September. So, if your tank...