Winners 2025 - Medium

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
   
Photography
   
Creativity

 

Winning works

Aquascape ADA 60P von Christoph Maisch
1
Special Award Photography
Birds Flight
Christoph
Maisch
Austria
Created a valley with lush plants for my fish
2
Valley of the Reds
Asaftei
Adrian Cristian
România
nature aquarium in layout of the letter X
3
Special Award Creativity
Nature Xscape
Tomas
Eichler
Czech Republic
Alto Minho foto
4
Alto Minho
CLEIR
DUBOIS
Portugal
Triangle layout with sand foreground
5
The New Dawn
Peter
Chnurik
Slovakia
Dynamic Canyon scape with many details
6
Riven
Jozef
Scury
Slovakia
The Sun rises on the horizon and the colors shine.
7
The Inner Light
Bruno
Fiorenza
Italy
In the wilds
8
In the Wilds
Valerii
Nemashkalo
Ukraine
An aquascape that mimics a lush green valley with a winding path leading toward a glowing sunrise on the horizon.
9
Special Award Plants
Sunrise Serenity
Jannik
Ehrich
Germany
Aquascape titled Haven by Tanja Pechhold
10
Haven
Tanja
Pechhold
Germany
little driftwood surrounded by many different plant groups
11
Harmony
Karsten
Dünne
Deutschland
cropped photo
12
Wispering Waters
Sergio
Moya garcía
Spain
The Crown
13
The Crown
Láng
Viktor
Magyarország
Shallow tank 81l
14
Black Tiger Elderly
Jérôme
Rivera
France
Sanzon Iwagumi ADA SPIRIT
15
Sanzon Iwagumi
Mario
Schaufler
Austria
60P
16
Let it be
Stefan
Krämer
Germany
A densely planted freshwater aquarium featuring lush green aquatic plants, moss-covered driftwood, and various red-leafed plants. The scene is naturalistic, resembling a vibrant underwater forest with layered vegetation and floating lily pads near the water's surface.
17
Lucerna
Oscar
Ruipérez
España
Reşat erdem daydream brazilian
18
Daydream ‘II’
Resat Hilmi
Erdem
Türkiye
The Waking Forest - I took inspiration after one of my walks in the forest!
19
The Waking Forest
Takács
Zoltán
Magyarország
Driftwood with Moos in v-shape with Lava pebbels
20
Sunken
Rasmus
Wegerer
Germany
The route is the goal
21
Enigma
Benjamin
Nüßle
Deutschland
Naturaquarium
22
Dschungel
Philipp
Steinbrück
Germany
Picture of a Aquarium Iwagumi style
23
The Green Frodoheart
Stefan
Brandstädter
Deutschland
The main inspiration was the probably the most famous fresco in the Sistine Chapel and one of the most famous in modern art created by Michelangelo around 1511 and is located in the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel: The Creation of Adam
24
Adam Creation
Istvan
Bartha
România
Inspired by the forests of Europe
25
Innocence
Dmitry
Shulyak
Belarus
green mountain
26
Tașa
Macovei
Cristian
Italia
A freshwater aquascape featuring a central arrangement of dark lava rocks, surrounded by red and bronze aquatic plants, with large green Echinodorus leaves forming a canopy in the background.
27
Flame Beneath the Canopy
Tom
Mees
Germany
Two black stones surrouded by hairgrass. Short in the front and longer in the
28
Calm Current
Dominik
Holzinger
Germany
Picture of planted aquarium, with a natural style, with rock, wood and several species of aquatic plants, with fishes, shrimps and snails
29
Aetherbrook
João
Planche
Portugal
The Forgotten Valley
30
The Forgotten Valley
Rubén
Santos
Spain
Venom
31
Venom
Anastassija
Kalinina
Estonia
Green Oasis
32
Green Oasis
Marek
Kampf
Česko
Echoes of Eden
33
Echoes of Eden
Mitko
Ivanov
Germany
A wooden Island between lots of green
34
New Shutter Island
Felix
Steidler
Germany
На изображении показан аквариум с пресноводной растительностью и животными. Дно аквариума покрыто светлым гравием. На гравии лежат большие, темные, пористые камни. Они частично покрыты зеленым мхом и другими аквариумными растениями. Внутри аквариума располагаются две крупные коряги, также обросшие мхом и растениями. В воде плавают маленькие красные рыбки, а также маленькие красные креветки с белыми полосками. На заднем плане виден голубой фон аквариума.
35
Dragon Island
Александр
Юдин
Russia
A natural-style freshwater aquarium with lush vegetation and rocks. Vertical branches of Enigma Wood stand in the background. In the center, a composition of Cryptocorynes, stem plants, and mosses, seen from the front.
36
Valley of Plenty
Dawid
Mucha
Polska
Welcome to the Pea Tree (named after its pea puffer inhabitants). With a large tree stump the main focus point, it's routes trailing through the rocks, plants and cones.
37
The Pea Tree
Lloyd
Jobson
England