{"id":3209,"date":"2015-10-13T18:25:04","date_gmt":"2015-10-13T18:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/?p=3209"},"modified":"2015-10-13T18:25:04","modified_gmt":"2015-10-13T18:25:04","slug":"awesome-aquariums-winners-of-the-2015-international-aquatic-plants-layout-contest-colossal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/13\/awesome-aquariums-winners-of-the-2015-international-aquatic-plants-layout-contest-colossal\/","title":{"rendered":"Awesome Aquariums: Winners of the 2015 International Aquatic Plants Layout Contest | Colossal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"entry-caption\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-61009\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/aquarium-1.jpg?resize=625%2C220&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"aquarium-1\" width=\"625\" height=\"220\" \/><\/p>\n<p>#1 (Grand Prize) Takayuki Fukada, Japan \/ Courtesy IAPLC &amp; Aquabase<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The art of aquascaping is still a fledgling endeavor, first started in the 90s by Japanese wildlife photographer <a href=\"http:\/\/amanotakashi.net\/portfolio\/nature_aquarium\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Takashi Amano<\/a>. The annual IAPLC competition has grown dramatically since, with the 2015 contest seeing 2,545 entries from 69 countries. Japan, China, Brazil, and France dominate the top finalist spots (only 13 entries were from the United States). Finalists were <a href=\"http:\/\/en.iaplc.com\/results15\/results15.html\" target=\"_blank\">announced<\/a> in September.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-61010\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/aquarium-2.jpg?resize=625%2C176&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"aquarium-2\" width=\"625\" height=\"176\" \/><br \/>\n#2 \u8303\u535a\u6587, China \/ Courtesy IAPLC &amp; AquaA3<\/p>\n<p class=\"entry-caption\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-61011\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/aquarium-4.jpg?resize=625%2C191&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"aquarium-4\" width=\"625\" height=\"191\" \/><br \/>\n#4 Paulo Pacheco, Brazil \/ Courtesy IAPLC &amp; Aquabase<\/p>\n<p class=\"entry-caption\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-61014\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/aquarium-8.jpg?resize=625%2C215&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"aquarium-8\" width=\"625\" height=\"215\" \/><br \/>\n#8 \u30bf\u30ca\u30ab\u30ab\u30c4\u30ad, Japan \/ Courtesy IAPLC &amp; Aquabase<\/p>\n<p class=\"entry-caption\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-61017\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/aquarium-16.jpg?resize=625%2C218&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"aquarium-16\" width=\"625\" height=\"218\" \/><br \/>\n#16 \u5f20\u5927\u4e1c, China \/ Courtesy IAPLC &amp; Aquabase<\/p>\n<p class=\"entry-caption\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/2015\/10\/iaplc-aquariums-2015\/\">Awesome Aquariums: Winners of the 2015 International Aquatic Plants Layout Contest | Colossal<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>#1 (Grand Prize) Takayuki Fukada, Japan \/ Courtesy IAPLC &amp; Aquabase The art of aquascaping is still a fledgling endeavor, first started in the 90s by Japanese wildlife photographer Takashi Amano. The annual IAPLC competition has grown dramatically since, with the 2015 contest seeing 2,545 entries from 69 countries. Japan, China, Brazil, and France dominate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3pfIY-PL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3209"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3215,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3209\/revisions\/3215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}