BIOTOPE AQUARIUM DESIGN CONTEST 2016

We present to you the results of Biotope Aquarium Design Contest. Congratulations to all participants to excellent results, and thank you for your invaluable contribution to the development of the biotope aquaristic. On pages of some aquaria you can find comments by the jury members. Just click on thumbnail of an aquarium and you will go to its page with its detailed description, photos and video. Prize pool is EUR 3,000 and certificates + souvenir for top 50 participants. Enjoy viewing! After the contest a magazine with all contest aquariua was issued.

RESULTS

Likoma Island’s rocky habitat, Southeast of Lake Malawi, Mozambique waters, 1100 L

 Turkey. Mert Aykuta

Seim River coast, Tetkino site, Chervona Sloboda, Russia, 4800 L

 Russia. Evgeniya Moiseeva

Wugoushui Stream. Sub-basin of the Donggang River, Pingtung, Taiwan, 180 L

 Taiwan. Wei-Cheng Jhuang

Kopački rit, Croatia, east of vilage Kopačevo, swamp area of Drava branch, 182 L

 Croatia. Stjepan Erdeljic

Small pond shore, Northern outskirts of Pantanal, Mato Grosso, Brazil, 345 L

 Poland. Kamil Hazy

Habitat Profundulus mixtlanensis, a pool of the stream “El Rosario”, Oaxaca, 70 L

 Mexico. Victor Manuel Ortiz Cruz

Inundated area in the Indragiri Basin. Sumatra, 700 L

 Belgium. Jeroen Vanhooren

Kigoma area, a rocky sediment rich habitat, Lake Tanganyika, Africa, 458 L

 Turkey. ‎Uğur Ruşen Doğan‎

Nicaragua. Canyon de Somoto near Guayabo Valley, 480 L

 Ukraine. Bogdan Oleynik

Chituta deep, Lake Tanganyika, Zambia, 720 L

 Denmark. Carsten Thorleif Stabel

Stream El Arco, sub-basin San Lucas, Basin Atoyac, Oaxaca, Mexico, 100 L

 Mexico. Victor Manuel Ortiz Cruz

Lake Tanganyika. Congo, Moliro, 270 L

 India. Darpan Dhawan

Quiet dam near Dikanka, Garaganka River, Poltava region, Ukraine, 250 L

 Ukraine. Anastasia Tytova

Tributary of Koyna river near confluence with Krishna river. India, 100 L

 Belgium. Jeroen Vanhooren

Small pool in São Domingo River basin, Brazil, 20 L

 Russia. Svetlana Kirillova

Clarity branch of a river – Amazon, 120 L

 Turkey. Muhammet Saylavci

Miriñay tributary of the river during the rainy season, Corrientes Argentina, 90 L

 Argentina. Ivan Martinez

Rio Unini Igarape Agua Preta, Brazil, 375 L

 Russia. Kirill Shaklein

Lake Yenişehir. Mossy shallow coast of Hatay, Turkey, 157 L

 Turkey. Tolga Eldurmaz

Lake Tanganyika. South of Kipili – sunset in Tanzania, 350 L

 Turkey. Gökay Yağar

Lake Tanganyika. Zambia area, 480 L

 Turkey. Fatih Çetinkaya

Atzala river in its course by Paintla de los Reyes, Taxco. Guerrero, Mexico, 72 L

 Mexico. Amadeo Hernández Pérez

Wetland backwater near the mouth of the Yangtze River in Hunan Province, China, 35 L

 Russia. Lev Ponomaryov

Cenote of Dzibilchaltun. Yucatan – Mexico, 500 L

 Belgium. Jeroen Vanhooren

Slow stream backwater near Nadou in Chinese province of Hainan, 30 L

 Russia. Angelina Sporsheva

Oyapock river, French Guiana, 280 L

 Turkey. Timur Tekbaş

Shallow waters of Herbert River in Queensland. Australia, 40 L

 Turkey. Tolga Eldurmaz

Upper Bhavani River, a tributary of the Kaveri River, India, 70 L

 Ukraine. Konstantin Rodoutskiy

Miusik River in the Luhansk region of Ukraine, 300 L

 Ukraine. Oleg Sychov

Middel Amazonas, at the area around Manaus, 720 L

 Netherlands. Gert Blank

Moei River tributary backwater, Irrawaddy basin, Burma, 60 L

 Russia. Natalia Sokolova

Dry pond, Laguna de Marica, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 30L

 Russia. Svetlana Kirillova

Rio Jufarís, near the community Caicubi, Brazil, 200 L

 Brazil. Bruno Garcia dos Santos

Rio Tapajos, near the city of Santarem, Brazil, 688 L

 Greece. Theodoros Alexiou

Borneo hillstream, Sarawak, 160 L

 Belgium. Xavier Bourdet

Slowly moving small mountain creek, Xi Jiang drainage, Guangdong, China, 54 L

 Poland. Kamil Hazy

Billabong in the Wenlock basin, Cape York Peninsula – Australia, 100 L

 Belgium. Jeroen Vanhooren

Japurá River at dawn. Colombia, 180 L

 Russia. Artyom Filippov

Fast-flowing mountain stream in Guangzhou province, south-eastern China, 70 L

 Russia. Varvara Kozmenko

Lake Amatitlan Near Guetemala Eastern Coast Of Central America, 140 L

 Turkey. Bilal Taha Tasdelen

Tanganyika Lake, East Beach, Bulu Point cape, Tanzania, 32 L

 Russia. Evgeniy Bendin

Igarapé Daracuá, Rio Negro, Brazil, 36 L

 Brazil. Flavio Henard Jorge de Freitas

Upper/Middle Orinoco Woody Habitat, 630 L

 Indonesia. Andy Basuki

Dibru River – Dibrugarh, Assam, 250 L

 Greece. Christos Nikolakoulis

Lachuá Lake, in the jungle of Cobán, Guatemala, 240 L

 Brazil. Bruno Garcia dos Santos

Small backwater in Alenquer area, 70 L

 Russia. Aleksandr Dergalyov

Alto Rio Negro, 160 L

 Greece. George Pantazopoulos

Small ditch. Plain rice fields, north of Phetchaburi city. Thailand, 60 L

 Italy. Andrea Vannini

The Sandbar Of Tanganyika Lakeside, 430 L

 Turkey. Ömer Eliaçık

Minos reef from lake Malawi, 1000 L

 France. Lionel Adam

Quebradas- small stream near Iquitos, 60 L

 Hungary. Dániel Szabó

Lake Tanganyika, Ndole Bay, Zambia, 200 L

 Argentina. Walter Vazquez

Depth water of Congo area, East of Lake Tanganyika, Africa, 200 L

 Turkey. Fatih Bolat

Lagoon “El Remate” Campeche, Mexico, 200 L

 Mexico. Victor Manuel Ortiz Cruz

The river in Krabi, Thailand, 54 L

 Belarus. Jury Shamkalovich

Riverbank of a small stream in Nilwala basin. Sri Lanka, 100 L

 Belgium. Jeroen Vanhooren

Niger River Delta, Nigeria, 240 L

 Brazil. Bruno Garcia dos Santos

Forest streams of Loango National Park, 30 L

 Russia. Aleksandr Tkachuk

Black Water, Rio Negro, Brasil, 160 L

 Poland. Arkadiusz Skrzycki

Bache River backwater, Quang Ninh Province, Vietnam, 30 L

 Russia. Tamara Baranova

Paraná River backwater near the city of Goya, Argentina, 324 L

 Aleksandr Polimonov

Strelka River coastal part in village Ropsha, Leningrad Oblast, Russia, 200 L

 Russia. Nil Filimonov

Shores of Kigoma area, Northeast of Lake Tanganyika, East Africa, 200 L

 Turkey. Bilal Taha Tasdelen

Rocky shores of lake malawi – mbamba bay – Tanzania, 784 L

 Brazil. Jean Carlo de A. Castro

South American Blackwater Stream, 60 L

 India. Stephen Dsouza

Coastal area of Gulf of Finland in St. Petersburg, 160 L

 Russia. Mark Martynov

Mountain creek near Lijiang river in Zhejiang provinces, 20 L

 Poland. Dominik Woroch

Biotop Creek Soumourou, French Guiana, 200 L

 Romania. Emil Visan

Betta puddle, northern Chao Praya river, Thailand, 10 L

 Bulgaria. Ivaylo Slavov

Zhoujiang river, China, 3 L

 Morocco. Mounir Elkholty

Khorol backwaters, Ukraine, 70 L

 Ukraine. Vladimir Korotin

Cuvery River Habitat, Near Mysuru Town, Kanataka Province, India, 340 L

 India. Bharadwaz Putta

Lake Malawi, near Nkhata Bay, 112 L

 Ukraine. Konstantin Rodoutskiy

Stream, Kelani River, Sri Lanka, 81 L

 Brazil. Bruno Garcia dos Santos

Likoma Island of Lake Malawi, 360 L

 Brazil. Rodrigo Vasconcelos

Flooded stream near Coronel Bogado. Paraguay, 54 L

 Netherlands. Jos Rollman

Nkamba Bay, Tanganyika Lake, Zambia, 715 L

 Portugal. Nelson Mangana

Shallow waters in Orinoco with wild guppies, 80 L

 Estonia. Eduard Dmitryev

Backwater of St. Johns River before sunset, Florida, North America, 40 L

 Russia. Anna Romanchik

Hainan island, China, 165 L

 Morocco. Mounir Elkholty

Putumayo River biotope. Ecuador, 30 L

 Russia. Danila Brynetkin

Amazon River basin, in tributaries of the Ucayali, 60 L

 Turkey. Mehmet Kartal

Congo River Basin, West Africa, 180 L

 Japan. Hideaki Matsubata

Araguaia River, Brazil, 240 L

 Russia. Andrey Kondrashov

Amazon biotope lake large Curuai, Brazil, 260 L

 Portugal. Hugo Jesus