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Wine red shrimp and king kong shrimp photo slideshow video

The wine red and king kong shrimp may still be far from being widely available in Europe and North America but like the high grade crystal red and crystal black shrimp before them, we can still enjoy these new ornamental shrimp varieties through pictures and video. In this case, a wide diversity of varieties of [...]

Cliff Hui of the Creative Aquascapers Union: interview by Acuario Rosa

Cliff Hui is one of our all time favorite aquascapers and even at his young age he has managed to scape out quite the reputation for himself in numerous international aquascaping competitions. Cliff is a member of the prestigious Creative Aquascapers Union of Hong Kong and a few of the aquascapes that he has built [...]

The beautiful Hypancistrus L173 and L236 plecos

Hypancistrus L173 and L236 are among the most highly sought after of all pleco species. With the ban on these and other Brazilian endemic freshwater and saltwater fish, there is simply no legal way to obtain these fish other than from private breeders who invested in these species when they were legally available. One notable [...]

Video slideshow of the 2009 International Aquatic Plant Layout Competition

Every year we are floored by the sheer beauty and diversity of aquascapes that are entered into the ADA international aquatic plant layout competition. This year’s entries delivered some truly inspiring layouts and we can see that some types of layouts are bifurcating along different paths. Other years it seems like everyone was emulating the [...]

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