Biotope Aquarium Design Contest 2018 Rating

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Criteria

1 Evaluated by the organizers 30
Aqu Information about aquarium 10
1.1.1 Correct title 2
1.1.2 Correct list of aquatic organisms 2
1.1.3 Correct list of decorations 2
1.1.4 Correct list of equipment 2
1.1.5 Specified water parameters 2
Bio Information about biotope 10
1.2.1 Correct description of the environment that surrounds and influences the biotope 2
1.2.2 Correct description of the underwater landscape 2
1.2.3 Correct description of the parameters of the environment 2
1.2.4 Correct list of aquatic organisms in nature biotope 2
1.2.5 Correct list of sources of information 2
Pic Quality of photo 10
1.3.1 Clear, non-blurry photo 2
1.3.2 Clean aquarium glasses. Hidden equipment 2
1.3.3 Underwater biotope atmosphere 2
1.3.4 Listed fish can be seen 2
1.3.5 Good moment for taking the main photo 2
2 Evaluated by the jury 30
Via System viability 10
2.1.1 Volume of aquarium is suitable for the selected species and their number 2
2.1.2 Space formed by decorations is suitable for the specified species. If necessary, there are shelters or free spaces 2
2.1.3 Characteristics of selected decorations and substrate meet the vital needs of hydrobionts 2
2.1.4 Specified specimens of hydrobionts are compatible with each other in terms of species and quantity composition 2
2.1.5 Hydrobionts look healthy, there are no signs of an unhealthy ecosystem 2
Cor Correspondence of components to specified habitat 10
2.2.1 Hydrobionts indicated in the list and seen in the photo and video correspond to the selected biotope 2
2.2.2 There are no selectively bred forms of hydrobionts 2
2.2.3 Appearance of decorations and substrate correspond to the specified habitat 2
2.2.4 Formed by substrates, decorations and plants (if available) landscape corresponds to the selected habitat 2
2.2.5 Location of the decorations, hydrobionts, and a special approach to lighting and taking photo create a sense of presence in the nature habitat 2
Bea Beauty of biotope aquarium 10

Rating

№ Title of biotope Vol Name Country Aqu Nat Pic Via Cor Bea Bonus* SUM
1 Banks of the El Espinillo creek in the dry season, Magdalena, Buenos Aires, Argentina 540 L Walter Vázquez Argentina 10 10 10 10 9,25 8,25 57,5
2 Stream of Mount Lao after a rain in summer, Qingdao, China 324 L Sun Kai China 10 9 10 9 9,25 8,5 55,75
3 Rocky shallow water. The confluence of the rivers Kumaradhara and Netravati, near the city of Appinanagadi, Karnataka, India 750 L Sergey Lobanov Russia 10 9 10 9,25 9,25 7 0,05 54,55
4 Sources of the Krężniczanka river near Bełżyce, Poland 150 L Bartłomiej Paśnik Poland 10 10 9 10 8,75 6,75 54,5
5 Tra Su forest An Giang, Vietnam 356 L Luong Quoc Hung Vietnam 9 10 10 7,5 9 8,75 0,1 54,35
6 Upper Bladen River, Belize. Overhanging tree branches shoreline habitat area 540 L Lee Nuttall United Kingdom 10 10 9 9,25 9 7 0,05 54,3
7 Cape Kabogo. Tanganyika Lake. Tanzania 135 L Bartłomiej Paśnik Poland 10 9 10 9,5 8,75 7 54,25
8 Subin River, shallow grassy river bank area, Usumacinta drainage, Guatemala 375 L Lee Nuttall United Kingdom 10 9 9 9,5 8,5 8 0,05 54,05
9 Rivulet shallow shoal of Huaijiu River, Beijing, China 400 L Xiaolong Lu China 10 8 9 9,5 9,5 8 54
10 Upper Bladen River, Belize Submerged wooded stream bank area 540 L Lee Nuttall United Kingdom 10 9 9 9,25 8,75 7,75 0,15 53,9
11 Small stream in Choctaw National Wildlife Refuge, Alabama, USA 96 L Dominik Woroch Poland 10 10 9 9,75 9,5 5,5 0,1 53,85
12 Peat swamp forest in Selangor, Malaysia 375 L Bartłomiej Paśnik Poland 10 10 9 9,5 9 6,25 0,05 53,8
13 Shallow part of Lata Kekabu hill stream in Lenggong, Malaysia 324 L Mohd Khairul Fadzly Malaysia 10 9 9 9,75 8,5 7,5 53,75
14 Flooded area under tree in middle Rio Guapore drainage, Bolivia 345 L Kamil Hazy Poland 10 10 9 9,5 6,5 8,5 53,5
15 Carland Creek on the border of Cooloola National Park in South East Queensland, Australia 235 L Jason Sulda Australia 10 9 9 9,5 8,75 7 0,1 53,35
16 Slow flowing stream under the trees, Halmahera, Indonesia 67 L Nan Li China 10 10 8 9,25 9 7 0,05 53,3
17 Lake Tanganyika, shallow rocky shores of Ikola, Tanzania 487 L Fatih Özdemir Turkey 10 10 9 8,75 9 6,5 53,25
18 Nature of aquatic life at season the water came bad, Tram Chim National Park of Dong Thap Muoi, Vietnam 290 L Tran Hoang Nghia Vietnam 9 10 10 8 8,75 7,25 53
19 Rio Unini and junction to the basin of Rio Negro, Brazil 240 L Ali Türkmen Turkey 10 9 9 8,25 8,75 7,75 52,75
20 Riverbank in the Rio Sucuri near Bonito, Brazil 150 L Łukasz Barwicki Poland 10 8 9 9 9,5 7,25 52,75
21 Mahambo Swamp, district of Fenerive Est, Analanjirofo Region of Madagascar 600 L Paweł Łukasz Kocik Poland 10 10 8 9,5 9,25 5,75 52,5
22 Eastern middle reach of Tung Chung River, Lantau Island, Hong Kong 60 L Julia Bindl Germany 10 10 8 9,25 9,25 5,5 52
23 Flooded area on the Krężniczanka river, near Bełżyce, Poland 150 L Bartłomiej Paśnik Poland 10 10 8 8,75 8,25 7 52
24 Flooded area, drainage canal to the Capanaparo river, state of Apure, Venezuela 180 L Daniele Maxia Italy 10 10 9 9,25 7,25 6,5 52
25 Brazil, Rio Negro, flooded forest at the source of a small igarapé in Cambeua 480 L Bogdan Oleynik Ukraine 10 9 10 7,75 7,75 7,25 51,75
26 Middle course of Tung Chung River, Lantau Island, Hong Kong 96 L Xavier Bourdet Belgium 10 9 8 9,75 8,75 6,25 51,75
27 The shallow waters of Gorgulho da Rita, Rio Xingu, Para, Brazil 420 L Dimitris Lysikatos Greece 10 10 9 8,75 8 6 51,75
28 Confluence between Jhuoshuei River and its major tributary Qingshui River near Ershui and Zhushan Township, Taiwan 110 L Jun-Xiu Chen Taiwan 10 10 9 8,25 8,5 5,75 51,5
29 Lake Eacham, Crater Lakes National Park, Queensland, Australia 360 L Angelina Sporsheva Russia 10 10 10 8,75 7,5 5,25 51,5
30 Cuitzeo lake near riverside, Ejido las Trojes, Mexico 326 L José Ramiro Linares Buenrostro Mexico 10 10 9 7,75 8,5 5,75 51
31 Coastal waters of the Kapas River in the dry season of Harapan Rainforest in Jambi, Sumatra 125 L Walter Vázquez Argentina 10 10 10 7,5 7,5 5,75 50,75
32 A small clearwater forest brook emptying into igarapé Yavuari, Brazil 200 L Vern Van de Weyer Belgium 9 10 8 9,25 8,75 5,5 50,5
33 Tributary of the Taehwa River, Ulsan metropolitan city, Republic of Korea 64 L Tae Hyun Kim South Korea 10 9 10 6 8,5 7 50,5
34 Igarapé Puxurituba, Barcelos, Amazonas, Brazil 144 L Flavio Henard Jorge de Freitas Brazil 9 10 9 9,25 8,25 4,75 50,25
35 Lake Ravelobe, Ankarafantsika National Park, west of Madagascar 840 L Paweł Łukasz Kocik Poland 10 10 9 8 9 4,25 50,25
36 Shallow waters of the Caspian Sea near the mouth of Kigach River, Kazakhstan 54 L Alen Shakirov Kazakhstan 10 9 9 7,25 9 5,75 50
37 Blackwater stream Batu Pahat, Johor Peatland of South west Peninsular, Malaysia 34 L Mohamad Zul Aizad Malaysia 10 9 9 7,25 7,75 6,75 49,75
38 Tres Chimbadas lake, Tambopata oxbow, Peru 54 L Bartłomiej Paśnik Poland 10 10 10 7,5 7 5,25 49,75
39 Lateral channel, near Zadubravlje village, Croatia 160 L Stjepan Erdeljić Croatia 10 10 9 6,75 7,25 6,5 49,5
40 Main stream of the Kapuas river in western Kalimantan 375 L Piotr Gajewski Poland 9 9 9 8,25 7,5 6,75 49,5
41 Taiwanee Reef near Chizumulu Island, Lake Malawi 240 L Jakub Pałasz Poland 10 9 9 9 7 5,5 49,5
42 The Kulismajoki River at the bottom of the Jukankoski Falls, in the Republic of Karelia, Russia 80 L Igor Repin Russia 10 9 10 7,25 8 5,25 49,5
43 Small creek in Rio Negro system, Amazonas state, Brazil 112 L Arkadiusz Skrzycki Poland 9 9 9 7,25 9,25 5,75 49,25
44 Blackwater peat swamp near Muar, Malaysia 250 L Christos Nikolakoulis Greece 10 9 8 8,75 8,5 4,75 49
45 Flooded forest of middle Amazon basins in Brazil 840 L Han-Jun Cai China 9 9 10 6,5 7,5 7 49
46 Lokoti kiki creek, Suriname 350 L Bill Koulosousas Greece 10 8 8 9,5 9 4,5 49
47 River Amboaboa, a tributary of the Mangarahara river in northeastern Madagascar 450 L Paweł Łukasz Kocik Poland 10 10 8 9,5 7,5 4 49
48 The Peipia River. Russia. Leningrad region 250 L Artyom Boykov Russia 9 10 9 7,5 7,75 5,75 49
49 Oxbow of upper Paraguay River, Alto Paraguay, Paraguay 54 L Mateusz Lewandowski Poland 10 8 10 9 6,25 5,5 48,75
50 Rio Nanay, Amazon River tributary, Peru 182 L Wang Peng China 9 9 9 6,25 8,75 6,75 48,75
51 Quiet backwater of the Essequibo River in Kurupukari District, Guyana 400 L Svetlana Kirillova Russia 10 9 9 6,75 8,25 5,5 48,5
52 Río Paraná coast, Santa Ana, Misiones, Argentina 250 L Cesar Gabriel Schmitke Argentina 10 9 10 7,5 7 4,5 48
53 Rummy-nose tetra habitat, floodplain drainage stream, middle Rio Orinoco, Colombia 117 L Rich Schram USA 9 10 9 6 8,25 5,5 47,75
54 Slow-flowing coastal areas of Seyhan River, Adana, Turkey 88 L Mert Yılmaz Turkey 10 10 7 9 7,75 4 47,75
55 Backwater of the Barito River, the northern outskirts of Buntok, Kalimantan 50 L Tamara Baranova Russia 10 8 9 8 8 4,5 47,5
56 Kelani river. Rocky shore shallow stream, wet zone, Sri Lanka 112 L Łukasz Kułakowski Poland 9 9 8 8,75 8 4,75 47,5
57 Santa Ana, Nuevo León, Mexico 366 L Marco Antonio Arroyo Torres Mexico 9 10 8 9,25 5,75 5,25 47,25
58 Submerged forest in Atabapo basin of Colombia 338 L Hsu Hung Hsiao Taiwan 9 10 9 6,5 7,5 5,25 47,25
59 A forest brook emptying into Igarape Yavuari, a tributary of the Rio Uaupes, Brazil 84 L Andrzej Skraba Singapore 10 10 7 8,5 8 3,5 47
60 Overgrown stream to the east of the Ayutthaya city, Thailand 25 L Marina Kolodan Russia 10 9 9 8,25 5,75 5 47
61 Small stream Mako’s Morichal in Southern Venezuela 125 L Cory Hopkins USA 10 8 7 5,75 8,75 7,5 47
62 Gravel and sand bank of Rio Tocantins below Tocantinópolis, Brasil 430 L Piotr Stolc Poland 10 8 7 8,75 7,5 5,5 46,75
63 Itani, Amazon River tributary, French Guiana 300 L Wang Peng China 9 8 9 7,75 6,75 6,25 46,75
64 A stream on private property, habitat for Girardinichthys multiradiatus. El Pedregal, Ocoyoacac, Mexico 112 L Amadeo Hernández Pérez Mexico 10 10 7 6,5 8,75 4,25 46,5
65 Flooded forest at Paraná Ataú river, Santa Isabel do Rio Negro, Amazonas, Brasil 250 L José Antonio dos Reis Brazil 10 10 8 5 7,75 5,75 46,5
66 Flooded waterfront of the Rio Ivaí, a branch of the Rio Parana 60 L Erik Schimpf Germany 9 9 8 7,25 8,75 4,5 46,5
67 Black water stream Sungai Nibong, Sibu District, Sarawak, Malaysia 59 L Stanislav Labay Russia 10 10 8 7,5 7,25 3,5 46,25
68 Negro River, Amazon branch, Brazil 122 L Wang Peng China 9 7 9 8,5 6,5 6,25 46,25
69 Rio Demini, Upstream area near the community of Tabocal 330 L Anastasios Fassaris Greece 10 10 9 4,75 7,75 4,75 46,25
70 Wetland pond in the territory of the “Mshinskoye Boloto” sanctuary, Leningrad region, Russia 204 L Anton Khristenko Russia 10 9 10 4,5 7,25 5,5 46,25
71 Flooded area in El Culebrón wetland, protected area in Coquimbo, Chile 121 L Esteban Yáñez Valdivia Chile 10 10 6 5 8,5 6,5 46
72 Overgrown bank Rak river, around Zawiercie, Poland 14 L Kamil Mikoda Poland 9 7 9 9,25 7,75 4 46
73 Rio Nanay, Rio Itaya, Rio Mamon meeting, Iquitos 120 L Muhammet Saylavcı Turkey 10 7 9 5,25 8,5 6,25 46
74 Yeonggang stream, Nakdong river branch, South Korea 320 L Seonghee Ryu South Korea 10 9 8 5,75 7,5 5,75 46
75 Rio Liz spring area. Leiria, Portugal 60 L Luís Gândara Portugal 10 10 8 4,25 8,5 5 45,75
76 Shallow water channel in the “Boloto Ozernoye” reserve, Leningrad region, Russia 20 L Vasily Stolyarov Russia 10 9 9 7 7,25 3,25 45,5
77 Drying part of the Tonle Sap lake near the village of Kampong Phluk, Cambodia 108 L Anastasia Chistyakova Russia 10 9 9 6,25 6,75 4 45
78 Flooded area of Lago Verde on the Tapajós River, Alter do Chão, Brazil 126 L Michal Klacek Czech Republic 10 10 6 8 5,75 5,25 45
79 Lake Tanganyika, biotope Cape Chaitika, Zambia 400 L Andrej Rybár Slovakia 9 7 8 8 7,5 5,25 44,75
80 Rio Caquetá upstream blackwater, Colombia 70 L Ruben Kamphuis Netherlands 9 9 9 7,25 7,25 3,25 44,75
81 The Musi River, coastal swamp near the settlement Teluk Kijing, Indonesia 32 L Matvey Sokolov Russia 10 9 9 6,75 5,5 4,5 44,75
82 Guerrero stream, Uruguay River basin, Misiones, Argentina 160 L Philip Cortesi Argentina 10 10 6 8 7,25 3,25 44,5
83 Coastal part of blackwater river in Rio Ampiyacu drainage, Peru 200 L Alexandr Dergalyov Russia 9 9 8 6 8 4,25 44,25
84 Backwater in a forest channel of the Putumayo River basin, Colombia 160 L Anna Romanchik Russia 9 9 10 5,25 5,75 5 44
85 Forest pond in the Negro River, Brazil 486 L Yin Qi China 7 6 8 8,25 8,25 6,5 44
86 Lake Tanganyika at Kasanga biotope, shallow precipitous rocky habitat 546 L Uğur Ruşen Doğan Turkey 8 5 9 9,5 7,75 4,75 44
87 Backwater in the rainforest, Asahan River, Sumatra, Indonesia 70 L Varvara Kozmenko Russia 9 8 9 6 7,25 4,5 43,75
88 Halda River сannal, Bangladesh 112 L Rex L. Ribay UAE 9 7 8 7,75 5,75 6 43,5
89 Peat swamp forest in the eastern part of Malaysia, in Terengganu state 70 L Daniel Szabó Hungary 9 8 8 8,5 7,75 2,25 43,5
90 Tanganyika, Zair, south of Kalemie, Lamprologus speciosus 54 L Arkadiusz Skrzycki Poland 10 7 9 8 6,25 3,25 43,5
91 Lake Tanganyika, at Pemba, Democratic Republic of the Congo 325 L Migle Milinauskaite Iceland 10 7 8 6,5 7,25 4,5 43,25
92 Lotus Mountain Stream, Shanwei, Guangdong Province, China 300 L Vion Luk China 8 6 7 9,5 7,75 5 43,25
93 Everglades Park, wetland, Florida, USA 360 L Daria Kondakova Russia 10 9 9 6 5,25 3,75 43
94 Lake Tanganyika, East Africa, Tanzania, Kasanga 390 L Inga Ragėnė Lithuania 10 9 7 8 6,25 2,75 43
95 Peat swamp forest in southern Johor state, Peninsular Malaysia 70 L Christian Hidalgo Brandt Netherlands 10 10 7 6,75 6,5 2,75 43
96 Upper Volga River in the Kostroma region, near the Gribnoy Island, Russia 700 L Svetlana Kirillova Russia 10 10 9 2,5 7,5 4 43
97 Rio Caroni, Orinoco tributary, Venezuela 27 L Wang Peng China 9 8 9 6,25 6,5 4 42,75
98 Caño Tarapoto, near the mouth of the Nanay River, province of Maynas – Loreto, Peru 350 L Luis Alejandro Silva Paima Peru 10 8 7 5,75 5,5 6,25 0,15 42,65
99 Afternoon of sun in Rio Negro, in the community Santa Isabel do Rio Negro, Barcelos, Amazonas, Brazil 595 L Antonio Candido de Oliveira Neto Brazil 10 8 8 5 7,25 4,25 0,1 42,6
100 Lake Tanganyika. Tropheus duboisi at Cape Kabogo 820 L Mantvydas Strikauskis Lithuania 10 7 7 8,25 5,5 4,75 0,05 42,55
101 Sandbar in Ndola Bay. Lake Tanganyika, Zambia 110 L Konstantin Radoutsky Ukraine 9 6 9 8 6,25 4,25 42,5
102 Humid and forested area, affluent of the Polochic River, Izabal, Guatemala 192 L Alejandro Hernández Guatemala 9 8 7 6 8,25 4 42,25
103 Little creek of West Africa with killifish 35 L Vladislav Tsepoday Ukraine 8 8 10 6,25 4,75 5,25 42,25
104 The mouth of the Orinoco River 620 L Dmitry Zemskov Russia 8 8 9 7,25 5,75 4,25 42,25
105 Chisanse beach, North side of Nkamba bay, Lake Tanganyika, Zambia 130 L Mirko Baković Croatia 10 7 7 6,75 7 4 41,75
106 Lake Victoria. Sublittoral areas of the Mwanza Bay. Tanzania 60 L Ivan Chaika Russia 10 9 9 5,5 5,75 2,25 41,5
107 Pool of the Golden Venus near the southern part of Lake Tanganyika between the Kalambo River and Lunzua in the province of Zambia, Africa 240 L Sostene Colosi Italy 10 7 7 6,5 6,25 4,75 41,5
108 Rocky areas, the coast of Lake Tanganyika between Moliro and Kombe 320 L Sergey Kovalev Ukraine 10 8 7 6,25 5,75 4,5 41,5
109 Floodplain of the Rio Negro River in the lower reaches, Igarapé-Açu 1000 L Arthur Popov Russia 10 8 7 7,25 4,75 4 41
110 Morazan river, El Progreso, Guatemala 192 L Adolfo Hernández Guatemala 9 9 7 6,25 6 3,5 40,75
111 Rak river near Zawiercie, Poland 30 L Kamil Mikoda Poland 7 8 7 7,25 7,75 3,5 40,5
112 Frontosa reef, Lake Tanganyika, Afrika, Kollwe Point, Cape Mpimbwe 1000 L Sergey Kovalev Ukraine 10 9 8 5,25 5 3 40,25
113 Pool of Rio Negro in dry season 52 L Lim Hyun-Geun South Korea 9 8 7 6,5 6,75 2,75 40
114 Vyadya River, a coastal zone, Penza region, Russia 144 L Danila Bryunetkin Russia 5 10 9 5,25 7,75 3 40
115 Autumn in biotope. Jojkic’s Dunavac is a natural entity with a living world specific to Serbia 200 L Branislav Jakovljević Serbia 8 8 6 6 8,5 3 39,5
116 Shallow intermediate habitat of Nkhata Bay, Lake Malawi 63 L Han-Jun Cai China 10 9 7 4 6,25 3 39,25
117 Mbuna group in Malawi Lake between Mozambique and Tanzania, Africa 385 L Sefa Albasan Turkey 8 5 6 7,5 7,75 4,75 39
118 Riverbank in southern Mexico 146 L Thomas Krænge Denmark 7 4 7 8,75 8 4,25 39
119 Lake Tanganyika at Chimba biotope 140 L Uğur Ruşen Doğan Turkey 8 3 9 8,25 6,5 3,75 38,5
120 Habitat of Barbodes dunckeri at Mersing, Johor, Malaysia 108 L Mohammad Norhakimi Bin Mohd Nan Malaysia 9 7 5 6,25 7,5 2,25 37
121 Upstream of Yangtze river between province of Sichuan and Hubei, China 65 L William Chang Taiwan 10 9 9 0,75 4,75 3,25 36,75
122 Amazon, Rio Negro 230 L Zafer Işık Turkey 6 8 6 7 5,25 3,75 36
123 Coastal area in Itenez, Bolivian Guapore 86 L Emil Visan Romania 8 8 5 5,25 6 3,25 35,5
124 Stream in northeastern. Yilan, Taiwan 36 L Yi-Jie Lin Taiwan 6 6 4 6,5 8 5 35,5
125 Lake Tanganyika, coastal zone 100 L Evgeny Frolenko Belarus 6 5 8 7,5 6 2,75 35,25
126 Orinoco river, Colombia, South America 96 L Piotr Sliwka United Kingdom 9 6 5 8,5 4,25 2,25 35
127 Papaloapán River basin, Mexico 250 L Sundar Rajan India 8 7 4 6,25 6,75 3 35
128 Shallow water in lake Ajamaru 81 L Jung Hyunki South Korea 9 7 7 3 6,75 2,25 35
129 Sunset in Pantanal, Alto Paraguay Department 160 L Uwe Zufelde Austria 9 7 4 6,25 5,75 3 35
130 Little puddles of water near Mejuda River, Gori, Georgia, Caucasus 77 L Giorgi Khizanishvili Georgia 7 10 5 2,5 7,5 2,5 34,5
131 Brunei River 208 L Carolina Bergles Canada 8 7 7 6 4,5 1,75 34,25
132 Shallows of Rio Xingu river near Altamira 182 L Kota Kanbe Japan 10 9 6 0,75 4,25 1,25 31,25
133 Veche Creek, Tver Region, Russia 240 L Mikhail Yakunin Russia 9 7 5 1,25 4,5 3,75 30,5
134 Rio Negro Clear water 486 L Marcin Schubert Ireland 8 6 8 2,75 0,5 4,25 29,5
135 The coastal zone of the Orinoco River 46 L Mark Martynov Russia 7 4 6 2 0 2 21
Average 244 L 9,3 8,6 8,2 7,2 7,3 5,0 45,7

*Bonus – Bonus is additional points given by the members of the jury if ranking is equal in key positions.

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