Aquascaping Wiki - everything you need to know for your aquarium
Welcome to our Aquascaping Wiki! Do you have questions or problems, or are you looking for inspiration on aquascaping, aquatic plants and the aquarium hobby? The Aquascaping Wiki is an excellent reference work with clearly explained, richly illustrated articles and guidance on all things aquarium. We, the Aquasabi team, draw on our wealth of experience and are also supported by renowned expert authors from the industry. Thanks to the connection to our online shop, we can always offer you the right products to help you with your individual problem, questions or ideas.
The Aquascaping Wiki is divided into various categories. The "Aquascaping" section is mainly about design topics: how to plan an aquarium layout and what you need to create an aquascape or a nature aquarium. Under "Aquarium", you will find more general tips and tricks on the aquarium hobby. Here we explain many basic technical matters, but also practical questions, such as how to do a water change properly or what to do with your aquarium when you go on vacation or are away.
"Algae" is a very important topic in the aquarium hobby, as algae are the most noticeable problem in many aquariums. What can you do about an algae outbreak? Here we give you numerous tips on treatment options and offer solutions for a wide range of algae that can occur in the aquarium: thread algae, brush algae, beard algae, diatoms, blue-green algae, algae films and many more. Our introductory article "Algae in the aquarium" gives you a particularly good overview.
Every aquarium naturally needs suitable lighting. In this section, we mainly present energy-saving LED lights and show you how to choose an aquarium light that suits your individual needs. An aquascape with lots of fast-growing aquatic plants obviously needs different lighting than a tank used purely for breeding fish. Would you like to replace your old aquarium light with LEDs? No problem - so that you can convert and compare your previous light output, we have written a dedicated article. You will find it and many more in the "Lighting" category.
There is a huge selection of different substrates in the aquarium hobby. In addition to classic substrates such as sand and gravel, soils have now become the standard in aquascaping and for keeping soft-water shrimp. In the "Substrate" category of the Aquascaping Wiki, you will find product presentations and explanations on building complete substrate systems with soil, substrate fertilizers and substrate additives.
Carbon in the form of CO2 is one of the essential nutrients for aquarium plants. The "CO2" section contains a whole series of articles on carbon fertilization. Here we describe why carbon is so important for the growth of your aquatic plants and how CO2 fertilization works. You will also get a range of tips on operating the individual CO2 components, such as bubble counters, diffusers and drop checkers.
The filtration of an aquarium is something like the engine of the ecosystem inside it. In planted aquariums and aquascapes, filtration also plays a special role? and is in some respects quite different from a fish breeding tank. In the "Filtration" section, you will find product presentations of filters and specific filter media, and of course plenty of information about Lily Pipes. This is the name for the specially shaped glass filter inlets and outlets that became popular with aquascaping and come in a wide variety of designs depending on the desired flow behavior. The article "Lily Pipe" gives you a good overview of this topic.
Of course, we also want to take a closer look at the inhabitants of an aquarium. That is why the Aquascaping Wiki has its own categories for fish and shrimp. Here we present various species and new arrivals. We always relate them to planted aquariums and, of course, to aquascaping. This gives you a good idea of which fish and shrimp suit this type of aquarium keeping and which do not.
The unwanted inhabitants in the aquarium hobby include pests, which we also present in a separate section. Nuisances such as planarians, leeches, hydra or dragonfly larvae can attack fish and invertebrates in the aquarium. We offer help with identifying and controlling these pests as well as with prevention.
Aquatic plants are, of course, a key topic in planted aquariums and aquascaping. In this section, we cover special aquarium plants and new arrivals and give you lots of valuable tips on planting and caring for aquarium plants. We also take a closer look at the different plant species for the background, midground and foreground. Different aquatic plants are used depending on the planting zone, for example ground cover plants and mosses mostly in the foreground, mosses and epiphytes mostly in the midground, and stem plants tending to be further back in the aquarium.
Of course, aquarium plants also need a good nutrient supply to grow healthily. In the "Nutrients" category, you will find everything important about fertilizing aquatic plants correctly. We particularly recommend our series of articles "Fertilizing a planted aquarium, part 1", "part 2" and "part 3".
Suitable tools are a great help for maintaining a planted aquarium, and especially an aquascape, but also for caring for aquatic plants in general. Under "Tools", we explain how the various aids work, such as plant scissors, tweezers, sand flatteners and other aquascaping tools.