Aquascaping styles (Forgotten and Current)

[John N.]

From what I gather, if you look through the Aquascaping Showcase each of the tanks are more or less based on the Nature Style or Dutch Aquascaping Style. True. These scapes are beautiful aquascapes and inspirational, but something is very wrong here. There are more than two aquascaping styles in our Aquascaping World people! Let see, what aquascaping styles are out there...

• Nature Aquarium Style (discuss this style)
• Dutch Styles (discuss this style)
• German Style (Open Style) (discuss this style)
• Zen Garden Aquascapes (discuss this style)
• Taiwanese Style (discuss this style)
• Wabi-Kusa Style (discuss this style)
• El Natural Style (discuss this style)

I'm sure there are more styles and derivatives of the above that I have not mentioned. Do you know them?

Like I said before, many of these styles are often overlooked and shadowed by Dutch and Nature Style aquascapes. So much in fact that I do not believe there is a distinctive American Style, South American Style, UK Style, etc. It seems like these aquascaping are copied again and again each year. The aquascapes in the South Asia i.e Vietnam are developing a new style from what I can tell. It is a Nature based style, but with more vibrant colors.

How come no one focuses on or creates the other types of layouts, Are the different styles not popular, or worthy of winning aquascaping competitions?

-John N.

[Anti-Pjerrot]

This is a very overlooked issue for me. When I has to explain the styles, im on deep water in some of the styles. It will be very nice to have a more definitive discussion on the styles and what rules that aplies to them.

Very nice subject

[landstrykeren]

Good job John, this was intresting!

[zeneo]

Great threads John.

What about the Iwagumi?

Filipe Oliveira some months ago in a portuguese forum launched a small contest he called "underwater landscape". Something simillar to what he get with his "syrah". From a picture of a terrestrial landscape we had to try to make it underwater.

[Roy Deki]

Very good topic and multiple threads John!!

[John N.]

Thanks everyone, I hope people will enjoy these threads and learn the different styles. Hopefully, we'll see more aquascapers sharing their ideas and aquascapes of these respective styles. I for one, would love to learn more about each of these styles. I've only gave a brief summary of the styles, please feel discuss them in depth. *hint, hint*

Iwagumi is another style that should be up there. To my understanding, it's a branch off of Zen Gardening.

-John N.

[tinkerman]

Thanks for posting this John. I now have an idea of what style I can say I use ffor aquascaping and know what others I might try in the future.

[dougz]

Thanks for the breakdown, John!

Interesting stuff...

[Fish-Scapes.com]

The aquascaping style I like incorporates genuine untreated rough gemstones, mostly quartz which comes in different colors and has positive metaphysical benefits for plants ,fish and the caretakers.
michael

[Robert Hudson]

where is Iwagumi?

[Anti-Pjerrot]

We havent decided yet

I think John wants it under Zen aquascaping. I see it more under the Nature Aquarium style.

What do you think?

[Shadow]

Maybe put under it own category, Iwagumi style

[Ubaca]

Originally Posted by Robert Hudson

where is Iwagumi?

Zen Garden Aquascapes (discuss this style)



John: Excellent. Good job

[otagoth]

Im trying to do felipe oliveira style tree thingie. Lets just hope i make it. I wanna post my tank and how its going but i still dont know how to post a new thread HAHAH! Im a noob.