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
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
Vico
Friedsam
Deutschland
Cyptanthus Red  mit der Orchidee im Moos - Jennifer Claus
6
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
Tobias
Grüb
Germany
Wild shallow made by Kamil Niedzielski
9
Kamil
Niedzielski
Polska
Green throne made out of drift wood branches
10
Ralph
Bethge
Germany
Dooa neo glass air 30x18x12
11
Nazım
Durmaz
Türkiye
Small Wabikusa with a Sandpath in the middle leading to the back and green and red plants
12
Jannis
Weber
Germany
My Way Wabikusa Ball
13
Stefan
Brandstädter
Deutschland
Minas Gerais 1
14
Stefan
Krämer
Germany
Wabikusa - A Tale of Two Leaves
15
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
Adam
Juhás
Slovensko
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18
Christian
Kischnick
Deutschland
Green botle. Side.
19
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
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
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