created 2025-02-26, & modified, =this.modified
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This is neat. I’ve never kept fish. I’m not sure if I would. But I just might design some kind of biome that is aquascaped.
Aquascaping is the craft of arranging aquatic plants, as well as rocks, stones, cavework, or driftwood, in an aesthetically pleasing manner within an aquarium—in effect, gardening under water.
Styles
- Dutch
- lush arrangement with multiple plants having diverse leaf colors, sizes, and textures are displayed as much as terrestrial plants in a flower garden.
- Nature
- asymmetrical masses of relatively few species, with strict rules for selected stones and driftwood, usually with a single focal point
- Ryoboku - wood, or driftwood as the main hardscape material. Woods like bogwood, driftwood, manzantia wood, or redmoor roots. Moss, adding a sense of beauty and aged appearance.
- Iwagumi - rock, plays the leading role. Each stone has a name and specific role. Generally there is a rock that serves as the focal point.
- Diorama - uses a physical landscape or fantasy scene as source of inspiration.
- Jungle
- or wildstyle, can incorporate features of both. Plants are left in a natural, untamed look. Bold coarser shapes such as Echindorus bleheri are used.
- no clean lines, and often a jungle canopy effect.
- Biotopes
- attempt to replicate a particular habitat
- Paludariums
- Combination of water and land in the same aquarium
- Reefs
- Few ornamental plants can grow in a saltwater aquarium, so saltwater aquariums resemble reefs.
- Corals, and rocks and associated coralline algae and macroalgae.
Paludriums
The word ‘paludarium’ comes from the Latin word ‘palus’ meaning marsh or swamp and ‘-arium’ which refers to an enclosed container.