Invertebrates again

An interesting page to get information on invertebrates that live in our aquarium and recognize them...


the page name is Summary of the Domain of Ampullariidae but also deals with other species with information available in English, French and Spanish.

Aquarium and microscopy

A different and perhaps unique whay to watch your aquarium: through the microscope lens.


Acquariofilia e Microscopia Ottica site (in italian only) offers a series of articles that explain how to observe your aquarium by microscope. For those not interested in using this tool, however, I recommend to read articles on algae and aquatic plants ... you will find the answers to many questions about why and how certain phenomena occour...

offre una serie nutrita di articoli che spiegano come osservare il proprio acquario al microscopio. Per chi non è interessato all'uso di questo strumento consiglio comunque la lettura degli articoli sulle alghe e sulle piante d'acquario... vi troverete la risposta a molte domande sul perchè e sul come di certi fenomeni...

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.

Crabs and shrimps

Two nice sites on invertebrates that live in our aquarium:

The first www.invertebrati.info is an italian site about shrimp, crabs, snails and other invertebrates can populate our aquariums.



It contains many in-depth articles (very good that on shrimp's anatomy), cards for the recognition of animals, and some magnificent pictures galleries.

Second one Crusta 10 is a German site (also in English), mainly dedicated to crabs, shrimps and crayfish.

It has a more scientific approach and less amateur than the previous. Lists many articles and publications on these animals and even here there are cards for identification / classification and photo galleries.

The two sites are complementary with no overlap and are very definitely two links to keep handy for fans.

An 8.000 l. aquarium

After an unwanted break I restart to post starting with an 8.000 l. aquarium.


At address http://www.steentank.co.uk/ You'll find the story of this tank , it's tecnical data, maintenance tecniques and, overall, it's pictures...

Yuki Studio

Yuki Suganuma's blogs show a very good design and are very nice to view.
the old aqua plus design blog has been on till july 2010 and show old aquascape pictures.


New one, Yukistudio at now show only a picture on new aquarium that has been showed at IAPLC but it seems a very good start...

Water, green & fish

Water, green & fish is a japanese blog with a good DIY section.


The projects are well done and should be view...

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 ...

Day's of Nature

Japanese blog's are always impressive for pictures quality; Day's of Nature is not an exception and go over others for some tecnichal soluctions showed on (eg. pumps' metal hard pipes - an aestetich must)...

Rare Aquatic Plants

Sometimes, surfing the web, You can meet web sites that are really like jewels. One of these is Rare Aquatic Plants. Despite of his title the whole site is in italian so You may need a web translator to go on.
First thing You meet is something like a blog with two specific arguments: rare aquarium plants and caridina species shrimps.
The whole is professional and positively impressive.


Looking around You can discover that, to read the articles a registration is needed (don't worry, it's free). From here You will soon discover the related forum.
It contains only few recent posts but I think it's due to the very specific arguments related to site. Despite that the posts are good should be read...

Acquariofilia Consapevole

Acquariofilia Consapevole is an italian site devoted to explayn the correct way in aquarium hobby.
At the first time it seems poor and messy: articles sometimes seem to be scattered over pages and difficult to reach...


For those who has patience enaugh to stop for a while the site shows its best side: the information are reliable and informations sources well reported. Each topic has one or more specific link to other web pages and there are a lot of interesting pictures ....
so take Your time and a good translator...

Aqualiving

Aqualiving blog has always excited me for its pictures but did not offer much more.
Now, the blog show a link to Aqualiving.net site that, beside pictures contains articles and plants data-sheets.


Articles are basic but You can keep some good trick here and there. Plants sheets are quite detailed.
Unfortunately, those unfamiliar with the Japanese must necessarily pass through a good translation program or simply be happy with the pictures ...

The AquaTools

The AquaTools web site is a collection of useful web applications that are all related to aquarium but are in no way connected to each other.


The more complex one is aquasketcher, a useful tool for creating drafts aquascapes.
The (probably) most useful is The Aquarium Diagnoser: an interactive guide to diagnose your aquarium plants problems.

It's really a link to keep highlighted.

i3 [AQUA]

Minimalism, design, professional approach, advanced concepts are the basis of aquascaping site i3 [AQUA].



Unfortunately, despite the excellent approach, updates are not frequent so we should wait before deciding how to evaluate it.
I find amazing the pdf booklet about iwagumi ...

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.

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 ...

E.C. meters

The measurement of conductivity is often overlooked in aquariums, despite its undoubted utility. For lovers of DIY here are two articles that explain how to achieve a conductivity meter.
The first is at it.hobby.acquari. The circuit , though very simple to implement, has the disadvantage of requiring a PC for the measure.


The other circuit is on octiva net: it's a school project and is relatively simple and very well explained ...

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.

Italian Live-food

Every now and then our aquariums guest must eat ... and, without detracting the excellent feed that are in the market, nothing is better than a little 'of live food.
Italian speaking people can find at Italian Live-food instructions on how to raise/find this kind of live-food and how to fed their fishes ...