Winners 2025 - Wabikusa/Paludarium (0-10 Liter)

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

moss-covered wood harmonious arrangement

1

Special Award Photography

Special Award Plants

Rootbound Spirits

Karsten

Dünne

Deutschland

Reawakening

2

Arzu

Songur

Türkiye

Creekbed

3

Special Award Creativity

Srinath

srinivasan

Poland

Wabikusa feat. Rotala Rotundifolia

4

Tom

Dienemann

Germany

Frontal final shot

5

Roots of Wilderness

Vico

Friedsam

Deutschland

Cyptanthus Red mit der Orchidee im Moos - Jennifer Claus

6

Cyptanthus Red mit der Orchidee im Moos

Jennifer

Claus

Deutschland

Frontal view of a natural aquascape with three large pebbles, blooming Utricularia, Juncus repens, Hydrocotyle tripartita, and Bucephalandra among twigs and gravel.

7

Jonas

Loose

Germany

A planted Wabi-Kusa ball with moss and stem plants in a terracotta saucer on a wooden table

8

Little Magical World

Tobias

Grüb

Germany

Wild shallow made by Kamil Niedzielski

9

Master of Science in Management

Kamil

Niedzielski

Polska

Green throne made out of drift wood branches

10

Ralph

Bethge

Germany

Dooa neo glass air 30x18x12

11

A Root on the River Bank

Nazım

Durmaz

Türkiye

Small Wabikusa with a Sandpath in the middle leading to the back and green and red plants

12

Pathway Through Mother Nature

Jannis

Weber

Germany

My Way Wabikusa Ball

13

Stefan

Brandstädter

Deutschland

Minas Gerais 1

14

Discover Minas Gerais

Stefan

Krämer

Germany

Wabikusa - A Tale of Two Leaves

15

A Tale of Two Leaves

Adam

Dziadek

Poland

A glassbox with some Seiryu stone and H.C.Cuba all over the foreground.

16

João

Fernandes

Portugal

Front view of my miniature scape

17

Fallen Tree Trunk

Adam

Juhás

Slovensko

18

Christian

Kischnick

Deutschland

Green botle. Side.

19

A Jug with a Jug

Dawid

Mucha

Polska

A branch that is covered with green mosses and plants

20

Oliver

Dorner

Deutschland

"The Flowing Stump" Dooa 20cm Aquascape by Liam Kiefer

21

The Flowing Stump

Liam

Kiefer

Germany

Carnivore plant arrangement surrounding a driftwood root

22

Florian

Raeder

Deutschland

Way through the canyon

23

Manuel

Hartmann

Österreich

Soulflame

24

Jessica

Fichtner-Hentschel

Germany

a Cube with Lots of Fern in it and orchid in the backhground

25

Cube of Silence

Damian

Fichtner

Germany

The image shows a glass jar terrarium. Inside the jar, at the base, there is a layer of small, colorful pebbles in shades of white, beige, brown, and grey. Suspended above the pebbles, without visibly touching the bottom is a round moss ball (Sphagnum Rubella) placed on a cork bark wrapped in delicate green fern-like plants (Hygrophila pinnatifida). Growing from the top of the moss ball are a few small plants ( Anoectochilus roxburghii). The jar is cylindrical.

26

Ronja

Hesse

Deutschland

Kleines Berg-Wabikusa

27

Julian

Mehl

Deutschland

Waby Kusa Ball on clay plate

28

Drazen

Moraca

Bosnia and Herzegovina