IAPLC & CIAC 2026 Results Hub: Your October 10 Guide

10 October 2026

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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.

IAPLC & CIAC 2026 Results Hub: Your October 10 Guide

Bookmark this page, share it with your aquascaping community and use it as a starting point for exploring the creators behind the results.

Schedule checked: October 9, 2026. Edition: Before the results announcements.

Announcement schedule IAPLC 2026 CIAC 2026 Explore AquaRank Before the reveal

October 10: what is confirmed?

IAPLC has confirmed a timed broadcast. CIAC has confirmed the date on its competition schedule; that page does not specify an announcement hour. Follow each organizer’s channel for its own release.

SCHEDULED · OCTOBER 10

IAPLC 2026 results

Top 100 photographs and world rankings:
1:00 PM JST · 11:00 AM Vietnam time.

ADA has announced the reveal through its official YouTube channel, ADA VIEW. The complete ranking list is scheduled to follow the livestream on the official IAPLC website.

Watch IAPLC 2026 livestream Official IAPLC website

Read ADA’s announcement for the published schedule and release details.

SCHEDULED · OCTOBER 10

CIAC 2026 results

Results announcement:
October 10 · Hour not specified on the official schedule.

Check the CIAC competition page and CIPS news for official announcements. The CIAC 2026 awards ceremony is a separate event scheduled for November 13.

Official CIAC schedule CIPS official news

Use the organizer’s published category labels when reading each results list.

IAPLC reveal: your local time

IAPLC Top 100 reveal — all times on October 10, 2026
Location	Time
Japan (JST, UTC+9)	1:00 PM
Vietnam and Thailand (UTC+7)	11:00 AM
China and Singapore (UTC+8)	12:00 noon
UTC	4:00 AM

This time conversion applies to IAPLC’s confirmed reveal. CIAC’s announcement time remains unspecified on the schedule checked above.

Discover the career behind the result with AquaRank

A single place in a results list is one moment in a creator’s career. AquaRank connects published contest records across seasons and competitions, giving you a way to explore what came before the work that caught your attention.

Start with a familiar name, open the profile and explore another recorded season. Or use the leaderboard to discover a creator you have yet to follow. For results day, keep the contest name, year and category beside every position you compare.

Explore aquascaper careers

AquaRank is an independent AquaLibs project. Its leaderboard uses published competition records and its own documented methodology; the official organizers publish each contest’s results.

Revisit the 2025 galleries

Give the new season a visual reference point. Open the previous galleries, choose a work you remember and look again at its depth, planting and use of fish. After the 2026 photographs are released, those observations can become the starting point for a more thoughtful comparison.

Explore IAPLC 2025 Explore CIAC 2025

Look beyond the winning image. A favourite aquascape can sit much further down the list, and discovering it is part of the pleasure of results day.

Before the reveal: choose your reading route

Whether you are following a creator, a country or a design idea, these features offer a way into the archive.

Follow the IAPLC story

The 2025 season, seen through its styles
Explore last season’s Top 300 before considering what the new photographs might reveal.
Every Grand Prize winner, 2001–2025
Return to the winning works and the longer history behind the next title.
Notable names in the 2026 Top 300
Choose creators to follow when their final positions become public.
Fresh faces to follow
Broaden your watchlist beyond the most familiar names.

Explore the CIAC archive

The stories behind past champions
Meet creators whose earlier seasons offer context for another title race.
Eight works beyond the podium
Keep discovering after the first three places.
Five notable steps forward
Follow individual journeys between the 2024 and 2025 seasons.
The country map of the Top 30
Compare national representation within two published results lists.

Connect both competitions: One Aquascaper, Two Stages follows five creators through published IAPLC and CIAC records. It is an invitation to keep exploring when a familiar name appears in another contest.

Results day questions

Is the IAPLC Top 300 nominee list the final ranking?

No. ADA’s nomination announcement lists names and countries without individual positions or layout photographs. The final reveal is a separate announcement.

Will IAPLC and CIAC announce at the same hour?

Only IAPLC’s hour is confirmed in the schedules linked here. CIAC’s page gives October 10 without an hour.

Where should I check a new result?

Start with the official sources above. Use AquaLibs galleries and AquaRank profiles to explore archived works and connected careers, checking the season and category attached to each record.

Which creative journey will you follow?

A new champion will make the headlines. There will also be returning creators, unfamiliar names and aquascapes that reward a second look.

Tell us which aquascaper or country you are following, and what you hope to discover in the new layouts. Save this guide and share it with someone who will be watching the announcements with you.

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Spain at IAPLC 2026: Roberto Buenadicha’s Forest and the Space Between Trunks

Roberto Buenadicha’s aquarium is the only Spanish work in the published ranks 1–300. Its slender dark trunks, fine green planting and conspicuous pale fish make it a rewarding individual study. This instalment returns to the older Spain introduction through one photograph, keeping the scope small enough for the evidence available.
France at IAPLC 2026: A Close Reading of Jean Christophe Grosset’s Woodland

Only one French work appears in the published ranks 1–300. That gives this instalment a different task: a close reading of Jean Christophe Grosset’s aquarium, with the older country introduction as context. The photograph deserves attention for its own wood, planting and fish relationships, rather than being made to represent every French aquascaper.
Singapore at IAPLC 2026: Open Stone and an Enclosed Planted Passage

Two Singaporean works appear in the published ranks 1–300, and they offer an unusually clear contrast. One makes open water and two main stones central; the other encloses a small rear opening within dense planting and roots. The pair is useful precisely because it does not support one simple visual label.
Hong Kong at IAPLC 2026: Three Studies in Light, Layers and Visual Impact

A low timber ceiling, blue-toned terraces and converging planted diagonals create three visibly different aquariums. Hong Kong’s represented works at ranks 1–300 offer a compact study of visual impact beyond the season’s leading awards. Looking at them closely is more informative than treating the cutoff count as a verdict on an entire aquascaping community.
Italy at IAPLC 2026: Calm Routes and More Dramatic Planted Frames

A clear route through planted banks can feel quiet; a coloured ridge beneath a dark frame can feel theatrical. The four Italian photographs selected for this study offer both experiences. Together, they make a useful contemporary comparison with an archive that once placed particular emphasis on calm, enduring-looking compositions.
United States at IAPLC 2026: Four Distinct Readings of a Wooded Aquarium

The four American photographs selected here all contain important wood structures, yet they do not produce one uniform wooded scene. A broad canopy, a low diagonal, a fine-leaved light window and an exposed timber subject organise attention differently. That variation lets us discuss design diversity through specific decisions rather than a broad national label.
Germany at IAPLC 2026: Four Ways to Balance Hardscape and Open Water

A dark wooded frame, a rocky valley, a brighter mixed scene and green-covered root contours make this German selection particularly useful for comparison. The photographs share an interest in separating materials from the water around them, but achieve it through different outlines and lighting relationships.
Taiwan at IAPLC 2026: Planted Contours and Changing Routes into Depth

Dense foliage, planted wood ridges and a low central route create different senses of distance in this four-work selection. The photographs are particularly rewarding when viewed through changes in leaf shape and planting height. They offer a present-season comparison with an archive that once described both graceful composition and more contemporary experimentation.
Thailand at IAPLC 2026: Surface Colour, Green Arches and Open Rockwork

Three Thai aquariums in the published Top 300 present contrasting visual priorities. MAGIC LEAVES makes the water surface a signature; another work carries a route beneath planted arches; a third exposes rock peaks against rounded greenery. This small group gives a useful reason to look beyond the first shared award photograph.
Indonesia at IAPLC 2026: Forest Craft Through Four Different Frames

The four Indonesian works published at ranks 1–300 offer a compact comparison. A coloured surface canopy, a dominant trunk, a dense grove and a wood-and-rock opening all reward close attention. The small group makes it possible to examine every represented work in this range, while keeping the conclusions specific to this season and cutoff.
Malaysia at IAPLC 2026: Wood, Plant Texture and the Visual Role of Fish

A bright gap between broad wood layers, a fine-leaved canopy and a conspicuous individual fish offer three different entrances to this Malaysian selection. The photographs invite attention to the space inhabited by fish as well as the hardscape around it. They also show why a creator’s reputation and a new aquarium’s visual decisions should be discussed separately.
Brazil at IAPLC 2026: Rock Landscapes and Wood Beyond the Familiar Label

Enchanted Hills offers an immediately recognisable rock valley, with coloured planting and fish in bright water. Three other selected Brazilian photographs build their scenes around substantial wood. Seeing them together is a useful way to revisit a familiar label without asking individual creators to fit a single national recipe.
Japan at IAPLC 2026: Nature Aquarium and Many Contemporary Visions

A pale path through hanging roots and a bright interval between exposed rocks can both make an aquarium feel spacious. Japan’s 2026 selection is rewarding because it places these different approaches beside richly planted foregrounds and coloured slopes. Six photographs offer a practical way to discuss variety within a familiar Nature Aquarium heritage.
China at IAPLC 2026: How Layered Wood Creates Convincing Depth

The Grand Prize photograph gives this study an obvious first stop, but the comparison becomes richer when it reaches beyond the winner. Six selected aquariums show different ways of framing light with wood: unequal trunks, fine leaf curtains, successive arches and repeated vertical roots. Their interest lies in how each arrangement keeps a densely constructed scene readable.
Vietnam at IAPLC 2026: Wood, Stone and a Broader Design Identity

Vietnam’s two leading 2026 awards both invite us into wooded environments. That is an interesting starting point for revisiting an archive which once associated the country strongly with stone. The most useful reading is not that one material has defeated the other. Six selected photographs show several ways of organising planted ground, open water and the route into a scene.
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