Takashi Amano
Takashi Amano (Japanese天野 尚, Amano Takashi, born July 18, 1954 in Maki, Nishikambara -gun (now Nishikan -ku, Niigata ), Japan ) is a Japanese photographer, designer, author and aquarists. He has specialized in the photographing aquariums.
Amano is one of the most influential people within the aquarium and much coined the Nature Aquarium. To him is due that the Japanese garden art asserted itself as a design element in the planting and design of aquariums. Typical of him are asymmetrical arrangements of aquatic plants with stones and tree roots. He draws on design elements of nature. The philosophy of his nature aquariums, it is going to make especially attractive habitats. The goal is not to replicate the examples from nature exactly, but to make imaginable habitats with the means of fighting dogs. Examples from nature are transferred to the conditions of the aquarium hobby. So Amano combined, for example plants that originate from different continents and associated creatures, their habitats do not overlap in the wild.
In his community aquarium invertebrates also play a major role. On him the establishment of the Amano shrimp in the hobby is for example due. In addition, he often uses a ear grating catfish for algae control. As plant he prefers to use Australian reed ( Glossostigma elatinoides ) and flood end pond liverwort ( Riccia ).
Amano brings his company Aqua Design Amano out shortly ADA own aquarium products. In addition to appropriate accessories for planting the pool, he puts in its products it important that they fit unobtrusively and harmoniously into the natural aquarium, and thus do not interfere with the view of the plant design. Therefore, for example, are some of its tanks from full glass without Silikonverklebung, or CO2 systems made of transparent glass.
Amano is the founder of the International Aquatic Plants Layout Contest ( IAPLC ), a competition will be awarded at the Nature Aquarium designs.