Aqua Design Amano have announced the winners of the 2009 International Aquatic Plants Layout Contest.
The event, which is the world's largest aquascaping competition, was won this year by Nguyen Tien Dung from Vietnam who scooped a top prize of over 6000.
Nguyen was one of three Vietnamese entries in the top 10, all of which were from South East Asia, with the highest European entrant being Pasquale Buonpane from Italy, who achieved 22nd place.
But Poland leads Europe in aquascaping, with five Polish aquascapers appearing in the top 100.
The UK had a good year with 9 entries with British aquascapers gaining the following rankings:
81: Andrew Mack
169: George Farmer
174: Chris Jupp
685: Aaron North
777: Dobrin Dobrey
839: Graeme Edwards
946: Nick Parker
1056: James Star-Marshall
1156: James Maslin
ADA will be announcing the top 27 entries and providing images shortly. The top 27 from 2008 are shown here.