BIOTOPE AQUARIUM DESIGN CONTEST 2017

Welcome to the contest page! The organizers and the jury members evaluated all the entries using special criteria and now you can see the results. Very soon we will publish points for each criterion, as well as comments of the jury members to some entries. Follow the page update. As a result of the contest, a new magazine, “50 Best Biotope Aquaria 2017”, was published and the authors of the 50 best aquaria, as well as jury members, will receive it free of charge. Everyone can buy the magazine for 10$ by paying it through PayPal. The price includes delivery per Post. The prize pool is 3,000 euro and additional prizes for separate nominations. Enjoy viewing!

Igarapé do Daracua, the small forest stream of Rio Negro river, near Barcelos, Brazil, 160 L

 Croatia. Stjepan Erdeljic

Upper Candelaria River. Jungle area near the River bank, Mexico, 576 L

 United Kingdom. Lee Nuttall

Tram Chim Melaleuca forests, Dong Thap Province, Vietnam, 290 L

 Vietnam. Tran Hoang Nghia

West coast of Cocha Yarima Lake, the Rio Nanay oxbow, Peru, 375 L

 Poland. Bartłomiej Paśnik

Seversky Donets River, shallow place behind dam at the village of Eskhar, Ukraine, 768 L

 Ukraine. Alexey Bureiko

Oxbow edge of stream in Rio Guapore drainage, Bolivia, 345 L

 Poland. Kamil Hazy

Patakata Village in mangrove forest, Sundarban area, Ganges delta, Bangladesh, 575 L

 Poland. Jerzy Kielan

The Republic of Suriname, Gran Rio, the tributary of the River Suriname, downstream from the Avadana rapids, 480 L

 Ukraine. Bogdan Oleynik

Backwater on the King Edward River, Kimberley, Northwest Australia, 300 L

 Israel. Leonid Angelevych

Stream flowing into the Valencia lake in the north of Venezuela, 140 L

 Ukraine. Konstantin Radoutskiy

Peat swamp forest in the central west of Peninsular Malaysia, 60 L

 Malaysia. Khairuldin Mohd Isha

Pancho Poza River, Altotonga, Veracruz, Mexico: Xiphophorus variatus habitat, 240 L

 Mexico. Victor Manuel Ortiz Cruz

Shallow water of the Tobolki lake, Pskov region, Russia, 105 L

 Russia. Natalia Zakharova

Shallow forest lake near the igarapé Prosperitate, Brazil, 200 L

 Belgium. Vern Van de Weyer

Lava River in the middle reaches, canyon near the village of Vasilkovo, Russia, 500 L

 Russia. Igor Repin

The San Juan drainage from Pacific coast of Nicaragua Lake, 450 L

 Turkey. Bilal Taha Tasdelen

River Ucayali, Arequipa Region, Peru, 144 L

 Brazil. Flavio Henard Jorge de Freitas

Autumn in the Krężniczanka, mouth of a river, Poland, 54 L

 Poland. Bartłomiej Paśnik

Middle course of the Rio Negro River, a forest canal, Santa Isabel do Rio Negro, Brazil, 120 L

 Russia. Anastasia Chistyakova

Slow stream, north Han river basin, Gapyeong, Gyeonggi-do Province, Korea, 66 L

 Republic of Korea. Junho Lee

Lake Tanganyika. Sandy sedimentary bottom area in Ndole Bay. Zambia, 200 L

 Argentina. Walter Vazquez

Lake Tseny, Madagascar, northwest part of the island, Sofia region, 840 L

 Poland. Pawel Lukasz Kocik

Under the waterfall, Ulu Temburong National Park, Brunei, Borneo Island, 126 L

 Czech Republic. Michal Klacek

Atabapo, a stream near the settlement of Merey, Colombia, 330 L

 Ukraine. Alexey Bureiko

Coastal part of clear-water stream in Alenquer area, Para state, Brasil, 72 L

 Russia. Alexander Dergalev

Rio Lancetilla, Lancetilla Botanical Garden, Honduras, 465 L

 Croatia. Tomislav Sobota

The fabulous world of Caño Sardiña, Black Water, Columbia, 160 L

 Poland. Arkadiusz Skrzycki

Flooded forest near upper Rio Orinoco, Venezuela, 54 L

 Poland. Dominik Woroch

Kan-kou River Estuary, Pingtung County, Taiwan, 162 L

 Taiwan. Newt Jhuang

Rio Nanay, National Reserve Allapahuayo-Mishana, Peru, 96 L

 Italy. Lorenzo Strolighi

Forest stream of the Bia river system, southwestern Ghana, Africa, 30 L

 Russia. Anna Romanchik

Small water stream near the Sipapo river in Venezuela, 144 L

 Poland. Łukasz Barwicki

Tanganyika Lake, sandy biotope of Isanga Bay, Zambia, 70 L

 Russia. Matvey Sokolov

Planted small affluent in the Upper Rio Araçá basin, Brazil, 100 L

 Belgium. Jeroen Vanhooren

Planted area in Nimrod Creek billabong, Far North Queensland, Australia, 100 L

 Belgium. Jeroen Vanhooren

The Middle reaches of the Fengkang River, Daren Township, Taitung County, Taiwan, 324 L

 Taiwan. Newt Jhuang

Slow-move puddle, near Baiyun Mountain in Guangzhou, China, 100 L

 China. Han-Jun Cai

Lake Tanganyika, rocky shores of Ikola, Tanzania and pelagic waters of Kitumba, Congo, 487 L

 Turkey. Fatih Ozdemir

Southern of peninsular Malaysia, peat swamp, 324 L

 Malaysia. Mohd Khairul Fadzly

Waterlogged forest pond in the territory of the Pacaya-Samiria National Reserve, Peru, 120 L

 Russia. Svetlana Kirillova

Fortaleza Creek, Uruguay River Basin, Misiones, Argentina, 153 L

 Argentina. Philip Cortesi

Rio Jufaris, near the community of Carvoeiro, in Roraima, 200 L

 Brazil. Bruno Garcia dos Santos

A shady shallow flooded forest along an igarape near Manaus, 720 L

 Netherlands. Gert Blank

Rocky placers near Chituta Bay, Tanganyika Lake, Zambia, 200 L

 Ukraine. Volodymyr Bilichak

Mountain creek near Li river in Guangxi, China, 54 L

 Poland. Dominik Woroch

Valley of Silence: A refuge for Mexcalpique (Girardinichthys sp.). Ocoyoacac, State of Mexico, Mexico, 165 L

 Mexico. Amadeo Hernández Pérez

Shorline of Alter do Chao, Para State, Brazil, 622 L

 Greece. Alexiou Theodore

Rocky area of Lake Tanganyika near the town of Kasanga in Southwest Tanzania, 200 L

 Russia. Denis Artemyev

Wang Suk stream, Han river branch, South Korea, 8 L

 Republic of Korea. Seonghee Ryu

Lake Tanganyika, northwest coast, near the town of Uvira, Democratic Republic of the Congo, 380 L

 Russia. Sergey Lobanov

Lake Xochimilco, Borough of Xochimilco in southern México City, 162 L

 Taiwan. Newt Jhuang

Black water stream of the Rio Negro, 240 L

 India. Stephen Dsouza

Heavily planted area of an upper Rio Meta affluent, Colombia, 100 L

 Belgium. Jeroen Vanhooren

Killifish “hole” on a flooded meadow, Wonga Wongue Reserve, the Ogooue basin, Gabon, 20 L

 Russia. Natalia Sokolova

Beautiful Leka river at Republic of Congo, Lower Congo River Region, 400 L

 Indonesia. Taufik Widjaja

Edge of small forest stream in Nilwala basin, Sri Lanka, 100 L

 Belgium. Jeroen Vanhooren

Small forest lake in the Leningrad region near the village of Vartemyagi, 230 L

 Russia. Varvara Kozmenko

Small stream in Choctaw National Wildlife Refuge, Alabama, USA, 42 L

 Poland. Dominik Woroch

Small creek in Demerara basin, between Georgetown and Linden, Guyana, 100 L

 Belgium. Jeroen Vanhooren

Shallow shore cenote Jardín del Edén, Quintana Roo, Yucatán, Mexico, 120 L

 Costa Rica. Nelson Alonso

Small pools of Badas Peat Swamp, Brunei Darussalam, 56 L

 Brunei. Mohammad Zaheer Afie bin Zahirrudin

Littoral zone in the western part of the reserve “Northern coast of the Neva Bay”, Russia, 60 L

 Russia. Daria Kondakova

Central America Costa Rica rivers coasts, 135 L

 Turkey. Ali Türkmen

Marble quarry, Ruskeala mountain park, Republic of Karelia, Russia, 80 L

 Russia. Anna Romanchik

Bank of flooded Morichal creek, Maripa, lower Caura River, Venezuela, 630 L

 Indonesia. Andy Basuki

Blackwater pond, Amazon River, Brazil, 81 L

 Taiwan. William Chang

In the shallows of the Khorol river, Ukraine, 60 L

 Ukraine. Vladimir Dushko

Backwater of a stream in the Manimala River basin in Kottayam district, Kerala, India, 250 L

 Russia. Angelina Sporsheva

Shallow blackwater habitat in the middle Rio Negro, 240 L

 United Kingdom. James Sheen

Area of protection of flora and fauna of cienegas from River Lerma, Mexico, 270 L

 Mexico. Amadeo Hernández Pérez

A pool with black water in Leticia, west of Amazonas river, Colombia, 240 L

 Chile. Esteban Yáñez

Amazonas, Manaus, Brazil, Rio Negro River blackwater biotope, 225 L

 Turkey. Emrah Kahyaoğlu

Lake Tanganyika, the eastern Tanzanian shoreline near Bulu Point, 900 L

 Germany. Anke Morbitzer

River Iput, under the overhanging bush, sandy shallows, Surazh, Russia, 280 L

 Russia. Yuri Vozhegov

South America, Guyana, Essequibo River, 200 L

 Turkey. Ahmet Develioğlu

Borneo, Indonesia, West Kalimantan, a small creek of Kapuas River, 33 L

 Italy. Lorenzo Strolighi

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

 Turkey. Bilal Taha Tasdelen

Western coast of the former Hiko island, the remains of Chalco Lake, 60 L

 Russia. Dmitry Osipov

North Eastern Taiwan Mountain Stream, 20 L

 United Kingdom. James Sheen

Llanos in the Rio Apure basin, state of Apure, Venezuela, 180 L

 Italy. Daniele Maxia

Resisting under Alto Paraná Atlantic forests, 250 L

 Argentina. Cesar Gabriel Schmitke

Small creek/peat swamp Upper Kapuas river basin, 110 L

 United Kingdom. Neil Whitley

Tributary of the Mamberamo River, New Guinea, 110 L

 Ukraine. Konstantin Radoutskiy

Belulok Waterfall stream of Labi, Brunei Darussalam, 96 L

 Brunei. Mohammad Zaheer Afie bin Zahirrudin

Blackwater Amazon river biotope, 70 L

 Netherlands. Ruben Kamphuis

A scenery from the village of Nuesochihua, near Usumacinta river, 300 L

 Turkey. Zafer Işık

Coastal area of the Kreshchenskoye Lake, Penza region, Zarya settlement, Russia, 40 L

 Russia. Danila Bryunetkin

Where the sand meets the rocks in lake Tanganykia, 1120 L

 Denmark. Jacob Kjærggard-Taustrup

Kigoma, Edith Bay, Lake Tanganyika, Tanzania, 75 L

 Italy. Lorenzo Strolighi

Small current of the Condoto River, the tributary of the San Juan River, 50 L

 Russia. Ivan Shutov

Lake Tanganyika shore areas, 1259 L

 Germany. Kai Rafael Brunner

Rio Cinaruco: Clear Water Territory of the Caribas, 1400 L

 Germany. Alexander Görz

South America, Amazon River basin, Tapajos Riverbed, 585 L

 Turkey. Mert Yılmaz

Rocky shore near Sibwesa, Lake Tanganyika, 1500 L

 Lithuania. Saulius Liudvinavičius

Mejuda river. Shallow river bank with still water near Gori, Georgia, 100 L

 Georgia. Giorgi Khizanishvili

Vegetated margin of Lake Inle, Shan state, Myanmar, 125 L

 Indonesia. Andy Basuki

Rio Orinoco – Hemigrammus rhodostomus biotope, 30 L

 Turkey. Görkem Elvir Kartal

River bank, Inle Lake, Hopong, Myanmar, 180 L

 United Arab Emirates. Rex L. Ribay

Calm waters of Serayu Tributary, Wonosobo, Indonesia, 32 L

 Indonesia. Anief Laboma

Eastern part of the Amazon, Brazil, Para, 140 L

 Ukraine. Denis Vdovichenko

South America, Amazon River basin, Orinoco River, 40 L

 Turkey. Mert Yılmaz

The Tocantins River basin, 240 L

 Ukraine. Andrey Kondratov

Valmayor reservoir, stony shallow water, Madrid, 40 L

 Russia. Danila Bryunetkin

Blackwater setup at Sedili Johor, Malaysia, 108 L

 Malaysia. Mohammad Norhakimi Bin Mohd Nan

Black water, peat swamp pontian, Johor, Malaysia, 40 L

 Malaysia. Hartini Binti Hashim