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.
 
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
 
stewnew;4082609; said:
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

any idea wat his name is?
 
fishticuffs;4083275; said:
takashi amano


MDK500;4083402; said:
While Amano is an expert in the style, I'm not so sure that he actually invented it.

I saw a few pics of some of his tanks and there not very iwagumi looking (still dont realy understand the meaning) itwas like HUGE and had a bunch of driftwood with some angels
 
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
 
fish_geek85;4083854; said:
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


Perfect
explained all I was interested in
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What fish can be in aniwagumi?
 
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