Wednesday, 6 August 2014

Aquascapes

Fancy your own underwater garden in the living room? Planted aquarium enthusiasts have created some rather amazing watery worlds, with an emphasis on the plants and hard landscaping rather than the fish and other creatures that inhabit them. Takashi Amano popularised the 'Aquascape' or 'Nature Aquarium'. Here are some that he created:




And here are some aquariums landscaped and planted up by other aquascapers:



Using carbon dioxide injection, liquid fertilisation and hidden filtration these high maintenance tanks are things of beauty. I'll be posing images of my own low-tech not quite so breathtaking version later.


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