Fishbase

As from its name Fishbase is a database containing the data of over 31,000 species of fish accompanied, in most cases, the relevant photos.
The home page interface is, at least, essential:not more than a form to enter search parameters:

simple and effective.

It 'available in all major languages of the world and is definitely an essential tool for anyone breeding fishes.
Unfortunately, the main server is often unavaillable for network overload and I suggest to bookmark all mirrors addresses to find most available one.

Aquatic Eden

Aquatic Eden is a blog in English dedicated to aquascaping.
This blog is particularly worthy of note for a series of posts titled Aquascape Analisis

in which some famous tanks are shown, and their layout is analyzed, highlighting what are the elements that mainly contribute to shape it.
Other interesting articles discusses aquascaping basics and related tools .

Chuck's Planted Aquaria Pages

Chuck Gadd site is one of the most popular planted acquarium sites.
It 'a personal website in English that contains some wonderful articles including some about aquarium startup and others about fertilization.

One of the reasons why it is very well known is that it allow to download a program to calculate the dosages of fertilizer elements to make DIY fertilizers.
Hidden in the articles there is a web version of this program which can be used on-line.


Another tool available allows the calculation of CO2 starting from pH and KH values.

another ..... GRASS GLASS STYLE

This blog title says it all: another ..... GRASS GLASS STYLE is a Japanese language blog
dedicated to an aquarium with a beautiful lawn.


It has little to offer but the beautiful photos that You has to find in older posts. The blogger seems not to update the site nowaday and the latest photos show a different aquarium.
Searching in the old posts You can find some good ideas on the use of an external filter for weekly water change . Other suggestions are in the use of buckets ... search for it ;-)

ADA

ADA is mythical trademark in aquarium. Its founder Takashi Amano, the guru of nature aquarium philosophy, has its own personal website where you can admire his beautiful nature pictures.
Much more interesting (and inspiring) are pictures published in the galleries of both the European site ADA Europe



and in Japanese main site


where You can, also, find links to other ADA sites scattered throughout the various countries; lot of material including downloadable manuals about creation and maintenace of Nature Aquarium.

Aquagarden

The main resource for Italian aquascapers is the site of Aquagarden: an aquarium plants webzine with high level articles.



The webzine is joined to Aquagarden forum:


the sticky discussion would be enough to justify the existence of the forum but You cand find more in many other discussions that contributed to the development dell'aquascaping in Italy.

Unfortunately, for the people around the world, the content is in Italian only.