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Another international contest with an international jury (sic!) is upcoming in 2010. Everybody interested in freshwatwer aquascaping should head to San Francisco

‘The International Aquatic Plants Layout Contest is a global-scale planted aquarium layout contest, organized by Aqua Design Amano Co., Ltd. The year 2010 marks the 10th anniversary, and we look forward to receiving many innovative and original layout designs in the contest 2010.’

Closing date for application is may 31rst 2010; the results will come out end of july 2010. Please check the application rules here.

While gathering for inspiration, check out the work of Oliver Knott: http://www.pbase.com

The Results of the ‘Second International Shrimp Contest‘ 2010 are out, but sadly not on the contest website but in a German driven forum. I’ll link to them, when the results are official published. We have only one winner not coming from Germany but from Poland. Overall, after having a quick look on the participants lists, only the Netherlands and Poland were competing with German shrimp breeders in the end.

The name of the judges:

1. Andrea Sassi, Italy
2. Andreas Karge, Germany
3. Grzegorz Nowinski, Poland
4. Heike Dixon, Germany
5. Kai Quante, Germany
6. Michael Nadal, Germany
7. Mirko Ritter, Germany
8. Rafael Morales, Canada
9. René Kruiter, Netherlands
10. Ulrike Wesollek-Rottmannn, Germany

Update, 17.02.2010:
The results are out on the contest website, click here to open the PDF.