How many AQ members submitted ADA IAPLC 2008?

[Shadow]

Not exactly a surprise, right? I mean you do not see ADA competition poster put up at LFS, right?

I did saw 2007 poster at LFS somehow no poster for 2008

[Jervis]

I did saw 2007 poster at LFS somehow no poster for 2008

I didn't see any ADA 08 poster too What happened?

[tcy81]

Agree with ADA SG and Merviso. It's still puzzling When I visit LFS, it is always jam packed with people and we have only 16 entries? Firstly, don't be too concern about winning or losing. All are winners as you will have your tank pictures will be published in the ADA result book, and nothing beats seeing your tank pictures with the world entries. If you ask me, ADA contest is a world event most planted tank hobbyists would certainly dream to win top prizes.

Yes! More aquatic plant layout workshops here. This will promote and advance awareness of planted tank in Singapore. AQ competition will certainly bring the interest to the next level. But especially for folks like Jervis, please don't limit entries to one per head

Think about this :- Singapore is the largest exporter in the world of ornamental fish and aquatic plants (?). Hence, we certainly deserve to have more entries and squeeze in more top prizes for the contest.

I do believe there are more than 16 planted tanks that can enter the competition. Maybe too shy to enter or more or less concern about position?
Well its a good way to see how we stand in the eyes of profession judge so that we can improve in our aquascape next year.

Hope they will be more workshop and AQ competition soon.
something like a Tank of the month competition?

Sometime people just get too obsessed with having different exotic plants or owning a branded equipment rather than focusing on the basics of a planted tank.

I do agree that some people are more interest in owning and growing different exotic plants. But owning them may or maynot improve your aquascape. Cheap plants usually are very good plants for doing a nice aquascape.

[ADA SG]

I didn't see any ADA 08 poster too What happened?

Due to an oversight on our part, we failed to receive the posters from Japan. And hence the lack of posters this year.

For the submissions for next year, we will be starting to do collection of photos for any scapes that you guys come up with and prepare for submission come next year. This way, there wouldn't be a rush for submissions.

Should you need help in photographing your tanks, drop us a PM. Very soon, we will have our very own website and on the website will be various articles. Some of these articles are our translations of some interesting articles from AquaJournal. One such article will be on how to do a good photograph of your tank. Keep a watch for it.

In the meantime, do start planning on your new scape.
Happy scaping!

[Jervis]

Actually we do have one of the highest per capita entry in the world... even beating Japan Second only to Hong Kong... and possibly Taiwan.

[Fei Miao]

Hi Guys,

I split the discussions on the "tank of the month" to a separate thread:
http://www.aquaticquotient.com/forum...ad.php?t=42809

I have asked for some feedback from the mods on this.

[juggler]

Not sure if anyone has posted this before. I noticed some info about the contest at ADA website

The International Aquatic Plants Layout Contest 2008

Thank you very much for your entry to the Contest ’08!!
This year, the total number of the participants hit the highest ever with 1,169 applications from 47 countries. The contest results will be announced on this website at the end of July.

Participating Country (the number of applications)
Argentina (1)
Australia (19)
Belarus (1)
Belgium (1)
Bolivia (1)
Brazil (9)
Bulgaria (2)
Canada (7)
Chile (1)
China (27)
Croatia (6)
the Czech Republic (3)
Denmark (1)
Estonia (1)
France (14)
Germany (26)
Greece (5)
Hong Kong (65)
India (9)
Indonesia (24)
Ireland (1)
Israel (1)
Italy (30)
Japan (423)
Kazakhstan (1)
Korea (1
Latvia (1)
Lithuania (1)
Malaysia (120)
Mauritius (1)
Mexico (4)
Philippines (1)
Poland (63)
Portugal (6)
Romania (1)
Russia (1
Serbia (2)
Singapore (23)
Spain (10)
Sweden (4)
Taiwan (86)
Thailand (2
Turkey (6)
United Kingdom (12)
U.S.A. (4
Ukraine (13)
Vietnam (24)

NATURE AQUARIUM PARTY in September 13, 2008
Nature Aquarium Party and the prize awarding ceremony will be held in Tokyo, this year again. It will be your great opportunity to meet top-level aquarists from all over the world and celebrate the aquarium hobby together.
We look forward to seeing you all at the party!
Date: Saturday, September 13, 2008
Location: Tokyo International Forum (Tokyo, Japan)

Cheers!