2010/04/27

Aqua Botanic

Aqua Botanic is an online aquarium plants retailer.
This site has always had a section of articles, though not up to date, it is very rich and detailed.




I recommend everyone to read at least the article on Control of Algae Using Straw contained in the Science section...

2010/04/21

Nyagua

Nyagua is a little piece of software that may help you to manage your home aquarium.
It runs on every O.S. that can run Java applications but some features may be used only on GNU/Linux O.S.

Interface is translated in English and Italian but it is not complete for dates and numbers formats...

You can manage more than one aquarium data
It's possible to store test kits measures and to get medium values, or to plot them, in graphs, for analisis.
It's possible to store informations about maintenance activity.
You can store expenses data and to get the relative report.
It's possible to store devices informations and to get a statistic on power consume.
You can store fishes common data near Your fishes data and compare them in a compatibility report.
You can store plants common data near Your plants data and compare them in a compatibility report.
Pictures of fishes or plants can be uploaded and stored in db.



More help at home page.

2010/04/14

Hagen

Hagen is a company that produces products for animals, which some time ago, was well known among aquarists for its aquariums lamps.

Their site is probably one of the least updated in the web and is very basic.
Between its pages, however, is a small jewel: four PDF numbers
of the webzine "Nutrafin Aquatic News" .


After the 4 th issue, apparently, anything was published but you really has to take a chance to read both these works and the the basic guides available elsewhere in the site ...

2010/04/07

Top Acquascapers

Here are two blogs created and maintained by two acknowledged world aquascaping masters:

Ushi-Kouge Aquascaping by italian aquascaper Pasquale Buonpane that last year won an AGA honorable mention, a second place at AAC and a wonderful 22° place at IAPC.

The blog contains few articles but still very thorough. Very beautiful pictures.

FAAO Aquascaping blog is by portoguese Felipe Alves de Oliveira another true master...
just to mention some of his work: Aquarium of the month of April 2007 on APC, Best in show AGA 2006, a 10th at IAPC 2007. not to mention his famous Pinheiro Manso which laid the foundations for a new way of aquascaping .



The blog contains some great pictures (go to the tag macro
fotografia) and good descriptions of its tanks.