Sekai scaping

This is a website (in portoguese) mainly dedicated to aquascaping.



It highlights than other sites because its articles are quite detailed and show the sources of information (which is not to be underestimated).
I recommend everyone to read two articles in particular:
'Tetra Neon Cardinal: Equívocos e Realidade' and
'Os males da introdução de espécies exóticas em ambientes aquáticos'

Nature Aquarium blog

Despite it's english title this is a blog blog written from italian aquascaper Enrico Serena.



In his blog Enrico show us both the tanks that has attended, with excellent results, at various international contests and his new current projects.
The value of this blog, in my opinion, are the pictures that Enrico is able to achieve with an unmatched balance of colors.

ADA Italy

ADA Europe web site has gone and from its ashes the ADA Italy site was reborn.

You can find it at the address http://www.adaitaly.com/.
The whole graphics has gained a lot but the pages seem displaying too slow. Some tweaking may be required...

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 ...

ukaps

UK aquatic plants society promotes plantaquariums' hobby in UK through a website and a forum and between the promoters there is the famous aquascaper George Farmer.
The site contains some good articles but, unfortunately, since some time no one has been added ....

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

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...

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.

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 ...

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.

Aquarticles

A name states it all... Aquarticles.com , as in it's author words is "An international collection of articles about fish and aquariums..."

The site aesthetics is minimalist but the contents are ecellent. Is not updated often but is open to contributions.

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.

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 .

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 ;-)

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.