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Easy-To-Follow Aquascaping Styles for Novices
Aquascaping is the intricate art of arranging aquatic plants, stones, rocks, driftwood, and other elements to create an aesthetically pleasing aquarium environment. Below, we delve into five broad categories of aquascaping that cater to beginners.
1. The Dutch Aquarium
Starting from the early 20th century, Dutch aquarium design leaned toward functional styles. It gained popularity for its dense, leafy greens and colorful, underwater garden appeal. This garden-like style is distinguished by multilayered arrangements of different aquatic plant species.
Fundamentally, Dutch aquascape promotes the use of various shades of green, differing leaf types, and structured planting beds that give an impression of depth. Three or more plant species are commonly used in Dutch style, each occupying its own space in the tank.
2. Nature Aquarium (Amano Style)
Conceived by Takashi Amano, the nature or Amano style creates a natural landscape inside an aquarium. In many ways, you are aiming to bring the tranquility of a serene forest, hill, or valley into your aquarium, which sometimes includes terrestrial as well as underwater elements.
Key traits of the Amano aquascaping style are the use of driftwood, rocks and aquatic plants to emulate natural vistas. The composition usually includes a focal point, and maintains a sense of proportion and balance.
3. Biotope Aquarium
Creating a biotope aquarium involves the replication of a particular natural habitat. Unlike Amano and Dutch styles that allow for more creativity, a biotope setup should closely resemble a specific environment on Earth.
Every element in the tank from water parameters, lighting, substrate material, to plant and fish, need to be from the same geographic location. It’s a beautiful presentation of global ecosystems, and indeed an educational piece on how these ecosystems function.
4. Iwagumi Style
The Iwagumi layout is a minimalistic Japanese aquascaping style that revolves around rocks and stones. It generally involves the use of only three major rocks, each representing heaven, earth, and mankind, arranged in a certain way.
This aquascaping style is visually striking, balanced, and emphasizes open spaces. Usually, only one or two plant species are used — mostly hardy, carpet-forming ones like hairgrass or Hemianthus.
5. Jungle style
Finally, the jungle style aquarium represents the wild, untamed nature that creates a sense of chaos yet remains visually appealing. It’s dense, lush, and uses a variety of plants which allows for a more forgiving aquascape sort for beginners.
While these styles provide starting guidelines, the possibilities in aquascaping are as deep as your tank of water, limited only by your imagination, creativity, and knowledge of the ecosystem that you are trying to create.
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