OUR HOBBY HAS come a long way in the last few decades, with a massive increase in the variety of species of fishes and plants, extensive developments in lighting, filtration, heating and the systems needed to support lush growth of corals or aquatic plants. With the rise of the internet, the volume of information, good and bad, available to hobbyists is frankly overwhelming, while social media means we can always see someone else’s amazing project, with which we simply cannot compete. The aesthetics of aquarium layouts have changed too; influenced by aquascaping pioneer Takashi Amano, ‘Nature Aquarium’ style has changed how many of us maintain our tanks.
Dutch style planted tanks, dioramas, Iwagumis, traditional community tanks, and those with colourful gravel and sunken ships or even Star Wars AT -AT…
