Explore transparent rankings built from published results across the world’s leading aquascaping contests.
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...
CIPS International Aquarium Contest
On behalf of CFA (China Aquascape Association) and CIPS (China International Pet Show), we are very pleased to officially announce the winners and world ranking of the top 100 of the first CIPS...
CIAC 2018 received 1,115 entries from 27 countries and regions across its three competition categories, according to the organizers’ official retrospective.
CIAC 2019 World Ranking Announcement
The "Great Wall Cup" International Aquascaping Competition (CIAC) was jointly founded in 2016 by the China Fisheries Association Aquascaping Branch (CFAA) and the Great Wall Pet Show (CIPS), and...
Congratulations with the amazing results of CIAC 2024!
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...
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...
Big News! The top 100 results of the 2025 "Great Wall Cup" International Landscape Architecture Competition (CIAC) have been announced!
The 2025 China International Aquascaping Contest (CIAC) has recently concluded, leaving a profound mark on the global aquascaping community with a series of vibrant events. The highlight was the...
The 2026 Great Wall Cup International Aquascaping Contest (CIAC) has completed its submission phase and moved into judging, receiving 650 entries from 29 countries and regions.
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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