Pendio Roccioso

I want to share the journal of a beautiful aquarium by Juan Antonio Clavero.


In Pendio Roccioso blog beside wonderful shots of this aquarium you'll find links to other aquarium of same blogger.

C.A.U.

Creative Aquascape Union site is the glass through wich You can see best planted aquariums of far asia area.


It's written in two languages chinese and english) and offer poor articles but big impact pictures.

Aqua Agora

Aqua Agorà is a french aquariums portal.


Like many others, similar sites, it's connected with a forum, it's filled with (interesting) articles, and photo galleries but, over all, it hosts an aquascaping contest very famuos in France...

acrylic-aqua

Throwing away plants cuttings can lead to phenomena of invasion and pollution of ecosystems... from the Japanese blog acrylic-aqua a suggestion (not too successfully) on what to do after pruning ...

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...

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 macrofotografia) and good descriptions of its tanks.

CAE

Colectivo Acuadiseño Español is an aquascapers Spanish group who counts many famous names among its members.


This blog contains really interesting articles as well as dozens of photos of members' aquariums. All photos are technically well taken and certainly worthy of being seen at least once ....

Mini aquarium

Mini aquarium is another Japanese blog dedicated to aquariums.


In this blog I was struck by the quality of the photos, especially close-ups of fish, both for their clarity and for the colors used.
They're very pleasant to watch ...

Mini aquarium

Fot those involved in aquascaping and mini-aquariums (but really mini) I want to higlight two links:
First is AquaminiaturA a spanish blog that show a lot of these art pieces:



The other is Slobodan Lazarevic's (alias Octopus) gallery . See at Nano Tanks section...

Aquamusing

Aquamusing is an U.S.A. blog that, near other things, contains pictures and informations on aquating plants in their natural enviroment.


A big problem I found with this site is that tag are not very useful to find things so You can often find yourself browsing trough pages one by one.

Oliver Knott

Oliver Knott is a world wide famous aquarium designer/ acquascaper that for years maintained a photographic archive of his aquascapes:


A site that surely can be an excellent source of inspiration for any aquascaper.

Last year, thanks to his experience, has launched a website in English, French and German, for its business through which proposes a range of soils, plants for aquariums, he selected.

HPA

HPA or High Place of Acqua is simply another japanese aquarium blog...



It contains a series of photos, to say, at least relaxing of blogger's aquarium and comments on various aquarium accessories available on the Japanese market.
Simple in the layout but have to be seen.

GAEM

GAEM web site is one of first italian sites that I met on the web when I started looking for news on aquariums.



I think everibody in Italy knows it but You must have in in your bookmarks.
It contains articles that I consider fundamental. Some have a some years of life but are like if they were written yesterday.

Overall I would like to highlight "Come far crescere bene le piante d'acquario" ("How to grow good plants aquarium") by Dr. Walter Peris and "Le piante e la luce" ("Plants and the light") by Maurizio Vendramini ...

Aquarium Algae

Aquarium and algae... these words often walk togheter hand by hand. If you have algae in the aquarium and you want to clean them, or better if you do not have and you want to prevent them, Aquarioum Algae ID is the right blog.


Besides the description of some basic on most common causes of algae there are many photos that help to identify them


for each type of algae most common cause and proper treatment to eliminate them are explained .
Informations are nothing new but are certainly well organized and periodically updated.

APC (Aquatic Plant Central)

This week a link to forum: APC


I think it is one of the largest, English language, forums dedicated to aquarium plants. It is certainly one of the best known.

I want to highlight two sections: "Lybrary", with the aquariums of the month, and DIY section where you can find beautiful articles on all aquarium ware. Sticky, here, a discussion on yeast CO2, that is nothing off exhaustive, and a long discussion on Drop Checkers.

AquaScaping World

For those who still didn't know. AquaScaping World is the most beautiful aquascaping webzine.


The magazine, contains wonderful photos and interesting articles in an elegant layout.
A single note: the magazine stopped at number 7, which dates back to September 2008.

In related forum there is the continuos promise of new numbers, but after a year nothing new.
Going over, the forum should be seen. Here you can see a lot of beautiful pictures posted from the best world wide aquascapers...

Aqua 3 (aquacube)

What about ... Fabio Ghidini website has always left me speechless ...


to make you understand I invite you to see the portfolio and let yourself be enchanted by the images.

A link, that alone is worth the visit to the website, is "Aquarium Photography" in which Fabio explains a 'bit' of his technique.

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.