Winners 2025 - Large

We’re proud to present the results of the EAPLC 2025 – a fresh chapter in Europe’s leading aquascaping contest!

Thank you to all participants who brought this category to life with creativity, precision, and passion. Your work continues to inspire and elevate the art of planted aquariums across the continent.

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Let’s keep growing the future of aquascaping — together.

Special Awards

Plants
   
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Creativity

 

Winning works

Afterlife is about the use of a dead tree underwater, as a hiding place for fishes, as a suport for mosses and plants, reasons why I chosed fish looking like ghosts ( soul of the tree leaving)
1
Afterlife
Asaftei
Adrian Cristian
Romania
Two stories final picture
2
Two Stories
Alen
Hodžić
Croatia
Aquascape Pride Rock Liquid Garden 75P von Christoph Maisch
3
Special Award Photography
Pride Rock
Christoph
Maisch
Austria
a landscape in which I try to maintain the balance between rocks and plants
4
The Whisper of the Stones
Jose Luis
Catedra Martinez
España
Acuario bien plantadito
5
Random
Juan fco
Aba serra
España
Cradle of Mountains
6
Special Award Creativity
Cradle of Mountains
Philipp
Semla
Germany
The reproduction of a landscape depicting the entrance to a cave that serves as a passage beyond a gorge full of natural terraces covered by thick vegetation.
7
Dragonscale Pass
Andrea
Feliciano
Italia
Nagy Gábor 128l
8
Harmony
Gábor
Nagy
Magyarország
My dragon rock aquarium with lots of moss and a few stem plants in the back.
9
Special Award Plants
Mister
Jiří
Šmahel
Česko
Between Two Worlds – where stone meets sea, and light meets shadow.
10
Between two Worlds
Andrei
Moisa
România
Drowned tree
11
Drowned Tree
David
Pérez
España
Emulation of the sunrise where the lights are cross the forest and fog creating shadows and reflections comming from the rear part of the scape.
12
LA GREVOLOSA
Bernat
Hosta Rovira
Spain
Al filo del ocaso
13
Al filo del ocaso
Gustavo
Palacio
España
Mémoire
14
Memory
Jimmy
Rey
France
sunken tree surrounded by grass like plants covered by moss.
15
A Glance of Summer
Clemens Jonas
Derflinger
Österreich
This is my first year participating in aquascaping competitions, so be kind ;)
16
The Change of Flow
Mark-Jan
Fioole
Netherlands
Eaplc_ Sebastian_Hopf_dancimg_water
17
Dancing Water
Sebastian
Hopf
Germany
A silent tribute to commitment, natural beauty, and a love that takes root. In this Nature-style aquarium, plants are the true protagonists, growing in harmony to symbolize a “Sí, quiero” (I do) that blossoms and stays alive beneath the water.
18
I do
Antonio José
Fabero Sánchez
España
Valley of Stillness
19
Valley of Stillness
Lauri
Mällo
Estonia
With this layout, I want to try go back to origins of Nature Aquarium and try to show in a layout, how much I admire the nature style and its creators.
20
Origins
Pedro
Moreira
Portugal
A journey to space makes an odyssey
21
Space Odyssey
Kostas
Koltouktsoglou
Greece
Naturnahes Habitat für Schilfsalmler und Sichelfleckpanzerwels als Aquascape
22
Painted Nature
Victor
Schaenzle
Österreich
Dragon
23
Dragon
Sylwester
Maruszewski
Poland
Continuity of Nature
24
Continuity of Nature
Elvis
Hastor
Germany
Follow the flow
25
Șașan
Macovei
Cristian
Italia
This work tries to convey the peace of the river backwater where the fountain of the goddess Coventina is born.
26
Sunrise at the Coventina´s Fountain
Breogan
Perez Fernandez
España
Nature Aquarium, Angel fish, Tetras, Black Background, Green-Red-Blue
27
Fire in the Forest
Niklas
Rath
Germany
Hill in a riverbed
28
Harmony
Manuel
Hartmann
Österreich
2 years old ryoboku style scape
29
Hold on
Koloman
Ondrušek
Slovakia
Reverse Flow
30
Reverse Flow
Jose Matias
Sánchez
Spain
Primo 110 Liter mit Bepflanzung und 2 Schmetterlingsbuntbarschen
31
Flossengenossen
Christian
Brandhorst
Deutschland
The picture is supposed to represent a path in a lush forest
32
Whispers of the Lush Forest
Pascal
Germer
Germany
I love Mountain and I wanted to recreate a Mountain layout
33
Beyond the Mountain
Heroy
Gopaul
Czech Republic
180L Iwagumi Style Aquascape
34
90P Iwagumi
Lennart
Stolz
Germany
piece_of_life Aquascape
35
A Piece of Life
Matthias
Jacob
Germany
A natural-style aquarium with lush green and red aquatic plants, driftwood, and rocks, creating a forest-like aquascape with small fish swimming near the surface.
36
Red Green River
PAVLOS
EXADAKTYLOS
Greece
Tropic Island
37
Tropic Island
Andre
Kussin
Germany
I due Banani
38
I due Banani
Dario
Tolomio
Italia
My pov
39
New Beginnings
Sebastian
Fiala
Österreich