[youtube width=”680″ height=”400″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zi-Wn5nKi8[/youtube] How good does a goldfish aquarium have to be to make the front page of a marine aquarium and reefing blog? This good. Forget the fact that this tank is freshwater, forget that it’s coldwater and even…
Oliver Knott’s Nature Aquarium remix of “Hallelujah Mountains”
The aquarium in the video above is an aquascape created by Oliver Knott which was inspired by the blockbuster movie Avatar. This aquascape was modeled after a setting of the movie called the Hallelujah Mountains, which float in mid-air, covered…
Natural reef bommies are the ultimate aquascaping inspiration
Some of our favorite dives are shallow sandy areas with isolated patches of corals, nicknamed bommies. These natural settings are perfect inspirations for a reef tank aquascape. We found this lovely youtube video depicting some nice bommies, and wanted to…
Anyone interested in doing an Archeological Reefscape?
This past weekend we attended the Fragstock coral farmer’s market at the Denver Downtown Aquarium. Along with many amazing corals and some neat, new products, we spied this interesting arrangement of home made reef rock. The maker Rich had arranged…
Thinking “Negative”- an overlooked aquascaping aspect
If you read my blog posts and articles on aquascaping, you hear me blabber on and on about the virtues of great rockwork, avoiding the uninspired rock wall configurations, the Golden Ratio, etc. Yet for all my talk about rockwork,…
Amazing aquarium uses common corals to produce an uncommon effect
At Reef Builders, we strive to bring you aquariums that reflect a unique perspective. Some blow us away with their sheer beauty. Others with vibrant animal growth. Still others tease us with their high-tech gadgetry and bleeding edge technology. And…
Glass no Naka No Daishizen- the complete aquascape works of Takashi Amano now available
Glass no Naka No Daishizen is the complete works of Takashi Amano featuring over 185 aquascapes. Most of the aquascapes are classics but the new book by the godfather of modern aquarium aquascaping also features some of the master’s newest…
Bring Back The Wall!!! Rock Wall Aquascaping
The aquascaping world has been thrown topsy turvey with all sorts of new designs these past few years. We’ve seen the pinnacles, the islands, the arches, the feng shui, the focal points, the atolls, low profile, and everything else. But…
AGA aquascaping contest delivers stunning freshwater views
The 2009 Aquatic Gardener’s Association International Aquascaping Competition is up online and has some inspirational eye candy from our freshwater brethren. Aquscaping seems to be one of the things we are constantly striving to master and at times, is probably…
The beautiful aquarium of Enzo Romeo
Italian blogger Danilo Ronchi has the Italian reef scene covered and smothered and today he shares with us one of the countrie’s finest reefs. The aquarium of Enzo Romeo is in the modern style with a trimless, braceless aquarium and…
