The International Aquatic Plants Layout Contest 2009 result

1210. Tenchi Loh (2.5feet tank)
[LAYOUT TITLE]Big Family
[AQUARIUM SIZE]W: 77 x D: 39 x H: 40 (cm)
[WATER PLANTS]cryptocoryne, baby tears, blyxa japonice, spiky moss, taiwan moss, vallisneria nana, green rotala, cabomba, pistia stratiotes, hygrophila difformis, pelia.
[FISH]guppies, black molies, sword tails, tiger barbs, siamese algae eaters, black neon tetras, noen tetras, red eye dwarf (malabar) puffer fish.
[SUBSTRATE]sand from water fall.
[FILTER]box filter.
[LIGHT]T4 20watt.
[CO2]nil.

1248. Loh Tuck Wai (nano tank)
[LAYOUT TITLE]Mix Up.
[AQUARIUM SIZE]W: 34 x D: 22 x H: 28 (cm)
[WATER PLANTS]Spiky Moss, Vallisneria Nana, Hemianthus Callitrichoides, Micranthemum Umbrosum.
[FISH]Neon Tetra, Apple Snail, Black Molly, Otocinculus Catfish.
[SUBSTRATE]Sand and gravel.
[FILTER]Dolphin Hang-on Back Power Filter.
[LIGHT]2U bulb 14watt, 67000K.
[CO2]DIY

My Entry to IAPLC 2009

haha...hope i can get some place within 1000th place...the nano tank is a total failure...maybe due to lacking of CO2 and chiller...also lighting is not enough...

My 2 Feet Tank May Update

Still wondering want to put this tank to contest or not...I lazy to find out all the name of the plants I had throw inside...

The World's Largest Nature Aquarium and Aquatic Plants Layout Contest.

9th International Aquatic Plants Layout Contest (IAPLC) to be held in 2009.
The contest was organized as the first global-scale aqua-scaping contest in 2001, and since then, we have received thousands of wonderful aquatic plant layouts varied in style and tradition. It's a great opportunity to review your own skills and check out the creations of your fellow aquarists from all over the world.

A total number of 1,170 applications from 47 countries was entered to the contest 2008. An entry of this '09 contest will be closed on May 31, 2009 and the contest result will be directly sent to each applicant at the end of June, 2009. Then, the result will be published in several prestigious aquarium magazines around the world.

I going to put my nano tank for this contest...hope I can get some place from 1 to 1000th...

My Dump Site

This is my another very super low tech 2 feeter
NIL CO2
NIL light (put outside of the house, using T4 20W as photo taking light)
NIL fert
water change 30-40% per week
flora: any local fish shop cheap stem plants, java moss, taiwan moss, draft pelia, riccia, crypts, glosso.
fauna: guppies x20, blue neon x8, black neon x5, SAE x5, black molly x2, sword fish x2, tiger bard x8, red eye puffer x1,


this is a photo of it 4 years ago
NEVER change any water in 4 years times