IIAC 2015 received 820 entries from 47 countries and areas.
TOP 50 IIAC 2015 WORLD RANKING
01 - China - Ye Yi - Samsara - 200L 320L02 - China - Zhang Jianpeng - The Taking of Tiger Mountain - 320L03 - China - Nguyen Van Lam - Returning - 320L04 - France - Julien Voultoury - Escaping the stranglers - 120L 200L05 - Indonesia - Amiri Lubis - Oges Mawut - 200L 320L06 - Indonesia - Heri Amir - Suro Badock - 200L 320L07 - Taiwan - Liu Hanyi - The Mysterious Forest - 320L08 - Taiwan - Chen Songxi - Mountain Stream, Birds Choiring - 320L09 - China - Fan Zhemin - The Mysterious Place - 320L10 - Viet Nam - Tan Nguyen Van - Wild Nature - 60L 120L11 - Ukraine - Grigoriy Polishchuk - Meandering - 200L 320L12 - Brazil - Fabricio Rufino de Souza - River Stream of Enchanted Mountains - 200L 320L13 - Malaysia - Josh Sim - Dark Side of Eden - 320L14 - France - Michael Leroy - Shilin - 320L15 - Viet Nam - Trieu Duong Le - The Memories - 320L16 - Morocco - Adil Chaouki - The Breeze - 200L 320L17 - Hungary - Andras Peter - Pangea - 60L 120L18 - China - Fan Zhemin - Sunshine After the Rainfall - 320L19 - Brazil - Fabian Kussakawa - Finding your roots - 200L 320L20 - China - Pan Junfeng - The Sunset - 200L 320L21 - Thailand - Chonlatee Jaturonrusmee - Dipterocarp Forest V2 - 200L 320L22 - Singapore - Robertus Hartono - Ravine - 120L 200L23 - Viet Nam - The Le Van - To The Sea - 320L24 - China - Yang Yuanzhi - Giants Valley - 200L 320L25 - Turkey - Serkan Cetinkol - Iron Hills - 320L26 - Maxico - Bernardo Salas Perez - Season I ( The coming of the Rain) - 200L 320L27 - Thailand - Watana Supukpongvilai - On the Rock - 28L28 - Brazil - Gregory Thom - Into the Atlantic Forest - 28L 60L29 - Portugal - Luis Cardoso - Tropical Bay - 200L 320L30 - Malaysia - Josh Sim - The Origin - 120L 200L31 - Indonesia - Tinton aryo - Iron bridge - 200L 320L32 - Malaysia - Kevin Teoh - Eden - 200L 320L33 - Thailand - Chonlatee Jaturonrusmee - Ancient Forest - 28L 60L34 - Brazil - Rodrigo Dutra - Vale das Três Marias - 28L 60L35 - Indonesia - Kadek Nata Wirajaya - BUNUT BOLONG FOREST - 60L 120L36 - China - Chen Chunxing - Jurassic - 200L 320L37 - China - Ye Yi - The Coming of Great Forest - 200L 320L38 - Indonesia - Rendi Prasetyo - Ongis nade - 320L39 - Brazil - Carlos Eduardo Pires Gonçalves - Paradise - 120L 200L40 - Viet Nam - Ngoc Mai The - The Wild Dance - 320L41 - Thailand - Yimyou Nobphacha - WORLDWIDE GREEN - 200L 320L42 - China - Chen Weijian - Dragon Valley - 200L 320L43 - China - Chen Wei - Senyun - 320L44 - Brazil - Rodrigo Augusto Carvalho - Nagareboshi - 200L 320L45 - Poland - PIOTR BECZYNSKI - The Crying stones - 200L 320L46 - France - Gregory CHARLET - Col de La Faucille - 200L 320L47 - Turkey - Omer Nadir KOCAOGLU - The way of light - 28L 60L48 - Taiwan - Zhan Yanbin - The Mysterious Place - 200L 320L49 - Brazil - Sidney Cordeiro - NEPAL - 28L 60L50 - France - Emmanuel BULTEL - Les Piliers de la Nature - 200L 320L
The CIAC 2026 story continues beyond the Top 30. This AquaLibs report brings together the contest image cards labelled 31–70, introducing more creators and forty positions to explore.
Ten aquariums can draw us underwater in ten different ways. A luminous forest opening, a red surface canopy or an exposed rock valley changes where we look—and what we discover next.
Chuanwei Yu’s 万物自然, the IAPLC 2026 Grand Prize aquascape, is immediately recognisable as a woodland scene. Its lasting interest lies in how that scene holds together. Large trunks establish the setting, finer roots connect its layers, planting softens the structure and fish make the spaces between the wood feel inhabited.
The CIAC 2026 podium offers three remarkably different ways to make an aquarium feel larger than its glass boundaries. Trần Anh Đức’s “Tectonic Memory” builds its world through folded rock contours. Acho Choky’s “Under The Cave” places the viewer beneath a dark canopy. Zhao Gang’s “幽邃” draws us through a planted valley animated by blue fish.
Vietnam’s Trần Anh Đức has won the CIAC 2026 Aquascaping Group with “Tectonic Memory,” leading the newly published Top 30. Indonesia’s Acho Choky takes second place with “Under The Cave,” while China’s Zhao Gang (赵刚) finishes third with “幽邃.”
Vietnam has plenty to celebrate at IAPLC 2026. Ha Le Trinh wins the Gold Prize at world rank 2, while Minh Toan Nguyen earns a Bronze Prize at rank 6. Together, they give Vietnamese aquascaping two places among the contest’s seven leading awards—and two striking aquariums for the international community to discover.
Chuanwei Yu of China has won the IAPLC 2026 Grand Prize, leading a season that also brings a proud moment for Vietnam: Ha Le Trinh takes second place and Minh Toan Nguyen finishes sixth.
Two competitions. One date. A new collection of aquascapes for the world to discover. IAPLC and CIAC have both scheduled their 2026 results announcements for Saturday, October 10. This AquaLibs guide brings together the confirmed schedule, official channels, archive galleries and reading to help you follow the day.
Aquascaping results are usually read one competition at a time. Follow the author's name across IAPLC and CIAC, however, and a richer story comes into view: a double championship, two very different layouts in one season, or a striking work discovered through a second gallery.
A CIAC results list is also a meeting point for aquascaping communities around the world. Read the country column alongside the photographs, and another story emerges: established names holding their ground, more works reaching the leading positions, and communities finding new reasons to celebrate.
In 2024, Rahul Mukherjee finished 63rd in CIAC's Aquascaping Group. In 2025, he reached sixth place. That 57-place advance is one of five compelling stories we can discover by putting two seasons of results—and their photographs—together.
The first three places make the headlines. Keep scrolling through the CIAC 2025 aquascapes, however, and the gallery opens into a much wider landscape: shaded forests, weathered roots, bright rock valleys and fish that give an underwater scene its sense of life.
Every CIAC results announcement gives the aquascaping community a new collection of works to discuss, study and remember. Behind the winning photograph is a longer story: earlier competitions, ideas developed across seasons, and the practical work of bringing a landscape to life.
Before the CIAC 2026 results arrive on October 10, there is time to look again at the aquascapes that made the previous season memorable. The most useful question is not simply which work finished highest. It is how each composition earned our attention—and what we notice when we return to it.
Before a new IAPLC winner is revealed, the previous season deserves a closer look. Which aquascaping styles filled the TOP 300 in 2025? Did the same visual families become more common in the TOP 100, TOP 27 and TOP 7? And what can those layouts teach us about depth, planting and the way fish bring a composition to life?
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