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UK’s largest private aquarium

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Jack Heathcote is an eXtreme Aquarist. He converted the basement of his home into an enormous 4,800 gallon freshwater aquarium. The Daily Mail interviewed Jack, here's a small excerpt from that article: It is so large - arguably the largest privately owned aquarium in Britain - that Jack has to dive in himself once a fortnight to clean it. And the salsa teacher has … [Read more...] about UK’s largest private aquarium

Takashi Amano – Photographer and eXtreme Aquarist

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Takashi Amano is famous for his landscape photography but among aquarists he is legendary. He is a pioneer in freshwater aquascaping, also known as the nature aquarium, having introduced Japanese gardening concepts such as Wabi-sabi and Zen rock arrangement to the hobby. Through many years of experience he has developed a line of products for aquascaping under the brand Aqua … [Read more...] about Takashi Amano – Photographer and eXtreme Aquarist

eXtreme Aquarist in the Making

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One of the YouTube users that I subscribe to (coralfish12g) posted a new video of a Nuvo 30 gallon aquarium he received as a Christmas present. His video reminded me of the process I went through with my 29g Oceanic Biocube. I must have arranged and rearranged the live rock 20 times before I was finally satisfied. After seeing coralfish12g's video I contacted him to ask for … [Read more...] about eXtreme Aquarist in the Making