How to Plant Potted Aquarium Plants and Getting Them Out of the Rockwool
# How to Plant Potted Aquarium Plants and Getting Them Out of the Rockwool I remember the first time I brought home a batch of potted aquarium plants from the…
Hardscape Cichlid Tank and Building Caves Without Wrecking the Layout
# Hardscape Cichlid Tank and Building Caves Without Wrecking the Layout Building a proper cichlid hardscape feels like architectural engineering with the added pressure that your livestock’s lives depend on…
Seiryu Stone Hardscape and Building an Iwagumi Layout Step by Step
# Seiryu Stone Hardscape and Building an Iwagumi Layout Step by Step Building your first Iwagumi layout feels like trying to paint with three brushstrokes and making it look effortless.…
Hardscape Nano Tank and Creating Impact in a Small Space
# Hardscape Nano Tank and Creating Impact in a Small Space Getting serious visual impact from a tank that sits on your desk and holds less water than most people…
How to Hardscape a Tank and the Basic Principles That Make or Break Your Layout
# How to Hardscape a Tank and the Basic Principles That Make or Break Your Layout You can mess up the hardscaping stage and spend months trying to fix it…
Hardscape Only Tank and the Fishkeeping Trend That Skips Plants Entirely
# Hardscape Only Tank and the Fishkeeping Trend That Skips Plants Entirely There’s a quiet revolution happening in aquascaping, and it involves removing what many consider the heart of a…
Driftwood Hardscape Tank and Choosing Between Spider Wood Manzanita and Mopani
# Driftwood Hardscape Tank and Choosing Between Spider Wood, Manzanita and Mopani When I started keeping aquariums in my cramped San Jose flat, I thought hardscaping was about buying expensive…
Hygrophila Pinnatifida and the Brownish Red Plant That Grows on Hardscape
# Hygrophila Pinnatifida: The Brownish Red Plant That Grows on Hardscape I’ll admit, the first time someone told me about a plant that could grow both in substrate and attached…
Hardscape Shrimp Tank and Creating Biofilm Surfaces That Feed Your Colony
For the longest time I tried to figure out why my first colony of cherry shrimp wasn’t growing. The water parameters were perfect, the tank was fully cycled, and I…
Hardscape Planted Tank and Balancing Stone and Wood With Greenery
Few things make or break a planted aquarium like your hardscape design. Nothing screams “this isn’t a natural habitat” quite like poor planning and haphazard placement of rocks and driftwood.…
How to Glue and Tie Plants to Hardscape Without It Looking Terrible
There’s a certain pride that comes with watching your Anubias attach itself to your chosen driftwood after patiently waiting weeks for it to start doing so. Watching moss slowly soften…
Dragon Stone Hardscape and the Rock That Changed How People Aquascape
I spent weeks lurking on aquascaping forums trying to figure out what made some hardscapes appear natural and seamless while others looked like rocks dumped in a corner. It wasn’t…
Iwagumi Aquascape and the Minimalist Rock Layout That Looks Simple but Isn’t
If you’ve never seen a good Iwagumi aquascape up close, they can seem deceivingly simple. Some strategically placed rocks, a perfect green carpet, maybe a pair of tiny fish darting…
Reef Tank Hardscape and Building a Foundation for Coral and Macroalgae
Building your reef tank hardscape correctly is what decides if your corals will flourish or suffer for the coming years. Do it wrong and you’ll be battling algae outbreaks for…