Vietnam Aquarium Design Contest 2013

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Sharing top 10 result from Vietnam Aquarium Design Contest 2013

1st place


2nd place


3rd place


4th place


5th place

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6th place


7th place


8th place


9th place


10th place

[Ingen]

First place is a 3ft tank?

[thebaldingaquarist]

fantastic tanks. pieces of art.

Eyes popping out!

[limz_777]

First place is a 3ft tank?

4 feet tank

[blue33]

Thanks for sharing. Many years ago HK scaper already noticed Vietnam's scaper going to be a strong contender. They can easily get any resources at their backyard which many scapers will envy. Hardscape no doubt they will win hands down. Their weakest link is not much plant(stem plant etc...) mass, instead they used alot of moss/fissiden/pelia etc to do their scape.

[wongce]

Very very nice....inspiring.... wonder when I can achieve 10percent of their skill

[sfk7]

Wow they are fantastic scapes! Although they just look a tad similar.

My preference will be no.4 and 6 just like their ruggedness. But the details in the winner's is just out of this world

[jlin]

Thanks for sharing, very nice scapes. I'm puzzled as to how they managed to grow their moss so nicely and how long it took. 1st place winner, moss are crazy, like grew very nicely with the contour of the hardscapes.

[Shadow]

First place is a 3ft tank?

The fist place is IAPLC 2013 rank #6, tank size 120x65x50cm

[Shadow]

Very very nice....inspiring.... wonder when I can achieve 10percent of their skill

Keep trying and you will be there sooner or later

[FabianLee]

I really love how all of their masterpieces is a replica of nature. The patience and skills required to input nature into their aquarium is splendid. That is what make me love having a aquarium

[Urban Aquaria]

Awe-inspiring scapes!

As with most aquascape competitions, the judges preference tend to be mainly geared towards aquascapes with the most depth perspective, the "more distant" the scape looks the higher its placing (ie. far-view mountain scape seem to score higher compared to closer-view forest scape)... so to get the miniaturized effect, i guess the trend steers towards large tanks + awesome rock hardscapes + lots of moss.

[limz_777]

judges seem like a lot of pro , like dave chow , tran hoang long

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Picture of the judges

[hiisoka]

i really like 2, 6, 7, 10

no.9 nice use of depth of field.

[NAQ]

Very impressive scapes!

[soltari007]

My favourite is 6... But how heavy do you think the tank is???

[bluebubbles]

They are all very very nice. I did a speedy scan with my eyeballs until it nearly dropped out and managed to pick one that matched my personality - Rank 10 is my favorite scape, followed by rank 6.

[Shadow]

Yup they are all high quality in general.