2023 AGAIAC Best in Show and 1st Place >320L Aquatic Garden “Radiance” by Juan Puchades, Valencia Spain
Welcome to the AGA International Aquascaping Contest
Showcasing global aquascaping talent since 2000
The 2024 AGAIAC is now OPEN!
Submission deadline: December 8th, 11:59pm EST
The Aquatic Gardeners Association
Formed in 1997, the Aquatic Gardeners Association is an organization focused on promoting aquatic plants in the aquarium hobby. Our mission is to educate hobbyists about aquatic plants and aquascaping, encourage the conservation and preservation of aquatic plants in their habitat, and foster fellowship within the aquarium hobby.
View our aquascaping history
Visit our legacy portal to view past contests for enjoyment and to gain inspiration for your own aquascape, biotope, or wabi kusa creation.
Enter your aquascape
Click below to enter the 2024 AGAIAC!
A Message from the AGAIAC Committee Chair
It is my sincere pleasure to announce that the 2024 Aquatic Gardeners Association International Aquascaping Contest will open on Friday, November 15th for submission of entries to our contest. Because of how late the contest is opening this year, the time allotted for submission of an aquascape will need to be drastically shortened in order to complete the judging and to announce the winners before the end of the year.
I would like to give a HUGE shout out to Nguyen Le and Jennifer Williams who stepped in to help us quickly design and establish a site to submit entries. After considerable technical difficulties and multiple attempts to implement the previous contest entry system, our new technical team has worked very hard to put together a system that will allow us to commence with the contest. Although the system differs from previous years, we hope that the process for entering the contest works well for everyone. Of course, if there are technical issues during the process, we will do our best to resolve the issue in a timely manner to ensure all aquascapers can participate in the contest. Please email any issues to support@agaiac.org.
So, without further ado, please go to the submit page to submit your entry.
As mentioned before, submission to the contest is abbreviated this year, so don’t miss the deadline of December 8th, 11:59pm EST. We will be posting announcements regularly to ensure people don’t miss the deadline for submitting an aquascape for the 2024 contest.
The AGA contest committee looks forward to seeing the submissions and wholeheartedly apologizes for the long delay in opening of the contest for this year.
Bailin Shaw, Contest Committee Chair
2023 AGAIAC #391 162-220L First Place Aquatic Garden “Evergreen Valley” by Bahtiar Depok, Indonesia