Aquascape Pool Designs

Aquascaping is the craft of arranging aquatic plants, as well as rocks, stones, cavework, or driftwood, in an aesthetically pleasing manner within an aquarium in effect, gardening beneath water. Aquascape styles contain a number of distinct types, including the garden-like Dutch style and the Japanese-inspired nature style. Normally, an aquascape houses fish as nicely as plants, although it is attainable to develop an aquascape with plants only, or with rockwork or other hardscape and no plants.

Although the main aim of aquascaping is to generate an artful underwater landscape, the technical aspects of tank maintenance and the development specifications of aquatic plants are also taken into consideration. Numerous variables need to be balanced in the closed program of an aquarium tank to ensure the success of an aquascape. These factors incorporate filtration, keeping carbon dioxide at levels adequate to support photosynthesis underwater, substrate and fertilization, lighting, and algae control.

There are several sorts of aquascaping types, and those who engage in this art form, take it very seriously and compete (mainly in the USA, Japan and Canada) in competitions to be hailed as king or queen of the indoor, underwater garden landscapers. Aquascaped tanks are much more than just a talking piece to show off stunning plants and uncommon fish – the masters of this art are in a position to develop an virtually dreamlike, ethereal good quality within the scene, that when you look into these tanks, you feel like you have been transported underwater into a dreamy, underwater garden vista with ‘trees’, hills and fields, all to scale and with depth and intricate detail.

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