How to Grow Aquarium Plants from Seeds
Putting some ornaments and plants in your aquarium is a must. Especially if you want to make your pet fish at home in the fish … Read more
Plaints & Décor
How To Plant Anubias Nana In Your Fish Tank
Having ornaments and plants in your fish tank is great. Your pet fish will be at home, especially if your fish tank has the ambiance … Read more
Benefits of Plants in the Aquarium
While surfing around the other aquarium websites on the internet, most dealing with fish only freshwater aquariums, I noticed that a large part of keeping … Read more
AquaSketch Aquarium Planning Tool
I stumbled across this cool little tool today called AquaSketch and after playing around with it, figured it was worth sharing. It uses the Tropica … Read more
Hemianthus callitrichoides
Common name: HC Scientific name: Hemianthus callitrichoides Geographic location: Cuba Temperature: 65F-85F pH: 5.0-7.5 Light: High (3WPG+) Growth: Medium Difficulty: Advanced Hemianthus callitrichoides is native … Read more
Diana Walstad’s “el Natural” Approach to Planted Tanks
I’ve covered two other major schools of aquascaping for planted tanks before, but both of those are relatively high-tech, and high maintenance. For those of … Read more
Iwagumi and Sanzon Iwagumi Aquariums
Iwagumi aquascapes are a subset of the Nature Aquarium style, pioneered by Takashi Amano. Based of Japanese gardening principles, iwagumi literally means “rock formation.” Rocks … Read more
ADA International Aquatic Plants Layout Contest 2008: Top 10 Tanks
Here they are, the top 10 aquascapes in this year’s ADA Aquatic Plants Layout Contest. Click on the images for a larger version. I must … Read more
Cladophora algae
Causes: Introduction via new plants, possibly Marimo balls Prevention: Avoid introducing Cladophora by thoroughly cleaning new plants Eradication and control: Manual removal, reduce lighting, patience … Read more
Taking the First Steps Towards a Planted Aquarium
So you currently have a fish only aquarium and you’re interested in adding live plants, but you’re daunted by all the equipment needed and extra … Read more