What is Iwagumi?
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That's one giant picture...
Anyways, I would consider an Iwagumi style tank to only have rocks for the hardscape and only have mainly foreground plants, generally there are no stem plants either.
Anyways, I would consider an Iwagumi style tank to only have rocks for the hardscape and only have mainly foreground plants, generally there are no stem plants either.
in one word: plantscaping
its named after this asian dude's and is his pionerring style apparently. all focus on plants and mosses, and landscaping effects
you normally see them with a small tetra community, theyre gorgeous tanks and you can buy set ups sold by the man himself to set yourself up with one
real cool line of aquaria supply
its named after this asian dude's and is his pionerring style apparently. all focus on plants and mosses, and landscaping effects
you normally see them with a small tetra community, theyre gorgeous tanks and you can buy set ups sold by the man himself to set yourself up with one
real cool line of aquaria supply
fishticuffs;4083275; said:
While Amano is an expert in the style, I'm not so sure that he actually invented it.
iwagumi is aquascaping where the focus is the rock formation. minimalism is the key. the only hardscape is/are rocks. no more than 2 or 3 plants are to be used. the plants accent the rocks, so the should be short, foreground plants. no more than 2 or 3 animals species should be used either. again, the rocks are the focus.
takashi amano popularized nature aquariums and iwagumi style tanks. he did not invent them. "iwa" means rock in japanese.
here's a nice little link:
http://iwagumicubed.com/iwagumi3.pdf
takashi amano popularized nature aquariums and iwagumi style tanks. he did not invent them. "iwa" means rock in japanese.
here's a nice little link:
http://iwagumicubed.com/iwagumi3.pdf