2010/03/22

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 ....

2010/03/16

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 ...

2010/03/08

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...

2010/03/01

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 ...

2010/02/23

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.

2010/02/09

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.



2010/02/02

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 ...