Here’s a look at a fantastic emersed culture riparium featuring some beautiful Cryptocoryne specimens. Ripariums are a growing branch of the planted aquarium hobby that we’ll be following closely here at Aquascaperz in which aquatic/marginal plants are kept in an aquarium with circulating water that covers just their roots and the substrate in which they [...]
While Fluval isn’t about to rest and sit on its laurels, they aren’t a stranger to releasing new products with the impending release of their new G series filter. However, you might have forgotten about the Fluval Edge Aquarium that was released a few months ago that has started to drop to local fish stores [...]
We don’t pay much attention to new strains of the common guppy but we very excited about being simultaneously introduced to 4 new strains of a different guppy species, Micropoeacilia parae. German freshwater fish specialist Aquarium Glaser recently received a bacth of M. parae from an Asian breeder who has developed the four new color [...]
They are not from Romania, they don’t suck blood from your neck or turn to stone in daylight, but they do seem to be just as rare as vampires. Only coming from one remote area in Northern Burma between Mogaung and Tanai you’re not likely to see these fish often. Although Aquascaperz has spotted some [...]
Incase you missed it Aquatic Plant Central has announced their first annual Tank of the Year Aquascaping contest 2010, inspired by their ever popular Tank of the Month feature. This is a great opportunity to hone your aquascaping skills, share them with the APC community and have them critiqued by an expert panel of judges. [...]
Tonina Style planted aquariums is a new style of aquatic gardening which we have been studying for a little while now. The concept of “Tonina Style” is sort of a “Super Dutch” approach to growing certain aquatic plants, especially the Eriocaulon, Tonina and Syngonanthus species which are collectively known as Star Plants or Hoshi-kusa (Japanese [...]
So if you hadn’t seen these yet on the USA ADA site or in AquaJournal we highly suggest you take a look, or if you had maybe take a closer one and consider a glass (yes we said glass) cabinet for you next aquarium stand. As always Amano’s team at NAG are producing new and [...]
The image above shows the three ‘larger’ varieties of Tonina fluviatilis, with classis T. fluviatilis in the top of the image and rear of the tank, Tf “lotus blossom” in the left center and Tf “narrow leaf” in the bottom right. The lotus blossom variety is one of the most distinct strains with really stiff [...]
If you’ve been trying to read your plants to determine what kind of nutrients your plants need, Aquatic Plant Central member Zapins has put together a diagram that will make leaf divining that much easier. There is a small suite of nutrients that are crucial to sustained plant health and when a deficiency manifests itself, [...]
Bucephalandra motleyana is a gorgeous species of aquatic plant from the rivers and streams of Borneo. Bucephalandra are rheophytes that are especially well adapted to live in flowing water. Bucephalandra is one of the rarest plants in the aquarium plant hobby and still very few people have ever even heard of this plant. When people [...]
