Aquatic plants

Those who grows aquatic plants in their aquarium may be interested at The Aquatic Plant Management Society and particularly to Journal of aquatic plants management.

All numbers up to year 2008 are freely available on-line in pdf format...

Aquaexperience

Aquaexperience is an italian portal for aquarium hobbyists and like other portals it has it's own forum, news, articles, photo galleries and so on...


It is distinguished from other sites for the quality of the articles, which improves every day and points strongly to the top.

Aquaportal

Aquaportal in Italy it's know as the italian aquarium portal and this is what is it.


It's a very complete site with a lot of articles, datasheets, pictures, links and all what You need on aquarium... but it's also full of advertising and for that very huge. Banners and other forms of advertising are always in and the whole is unpleasant... it's, really, saved only from it's contents.

Ole Pedersen

the danish professor Ole Pedersen, teaches Plant Biology and is Ph.D. in Water and Gas Transport in Aquatic Plants. He has a never ending curriculum and has published some of his works on Tropica aquarium plants site.


His personal site Bio-web collect many of his articles (mostly in PDF format). They are serious scientific studies that should be the basis for everyone involved in aquatic plants hobby.

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 ...

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.

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.

Aquarium mosses

Today not one link but three, for those who cultivate mosses in the aquarium.

The first site is Aquamoss

an English-language website, maintained by a tru mosses fan, with several articles on the subject.
A true gold mine for those who cultivate bryophytes in the aquarium.

The second site Bryophyte Ecology is the digital version of the homonymous book written by Dr. Janice Glim PhD at M.S. University.
Does not explicitly deal to aquarium mosses still contains a wealth of great value informations. In English.

The third site aquamoss.ch is maintained by Sebastian Prati a mossess and shrimps fan.

Despite the name of the site I found only some cards about mosses, however, I suggest a visit to the site for articles on shrimps where stand out the one on anatomy of Caridina sp..