I thought I would start the new year with something rather unusual, I picked this up from a friend on IBC. A beautifully curved deadwood of Sabina chinesis is attached to java moss resembling leaves. Different trunk and leaves are combined to form a Bonsai
Water and Bonsai
you can read more about this on the Japanese website
I find it rather unnatural, all the fishes and shrimps swimming aroud the tree 🙂
As Andre wrotes, japanese photographer Takashi Amano is considered as a founder of aquascapes. This is a quite new way how to create fish tank, with a good layout and nice plants. Fishes are not so important. I think Amano´s layouts are inspired by zen gardens, or arranging suiseki stones. For more info, google Aqua Design Amano. Some nice aquatic gardens can be found for example here: http://showcase.aquatic-gardeners.org/2012/
It´s a little off topic, but I like it. Art has no boundaries, does not matter if it´s bonsai, stone, suiseki, aquascape – all about nature 🙂
Thanks for nice post.
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i was going to start one but thought it threw and bonsai is my real passion not underwater bonsai but i do appreciate the beauty of them
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those are ada tanks the japanese have a yearly contest ada tanks heres a link for the 2010
http://www.aquatic-eden.com/2010/11/ada-international-aquatic-plants-layout.html
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