Today it’s easy to implement turnkey aquarium design and interior design solutions. Modern studios offer the most unusual variations of the artistic design of hidden depths. However, if you wish, you can create your own author's project, making a truly unique aquarium. A self-made design will allow to realize any idea, making the created underwater world the main element of the interior of the room.
Water design
It is best to keep aquarium fish for those people who see this as a pleasant activity and relaxation, rather than chores and problems. After all, it’s not enough just to buy an aquarium and run the inhabitants into it. It is important to be able to care for him so that he doesn’t just like, but delivers aesthetic pleasure.
The underwater world at home or in the office is a kind of living picture, it is a way to emphasize the individuality of the interior. Aquadesign is an integral part of aquarium technology. Particular uniqueness is guaranteed to him by his own vision of the underwater world. Thinking over their art project, real aquarists approach it with all their heart. Their main goal is to create an original landscape and a comfortable environment for the life of aquatic inhabitants. Such artistic design allows you to most harmoniously pour an aquarium into the interior of the room. A self-made design allows you to embody the most incredible design options for compositions, from which it is simply impossible to take your eyes off in the future. It can be fabulously beautiful sea, rocky plots, mountain valleys, mangrove forests.
By virtue of its wild imagination, you can create the most incredible decoration projects. However, they all require a clear concept - from their development to implementation. First of all, you need to determine the style of the aquarium and its features. It is also important to take into account the size of the aquarium and its shape, so that the chosen style is appropriate for a given area. The selection of the internal filling of the aquarium and its appearance should harmoniously merge into the surrounding environment.
Of great importance are also fish. Design is developed for them, with the obligatory consideration of their habitat. Compositions are made depending on the type of fish. For many of them shelters are needed, without which they can die. Some of them like to hide in the sandy bottom, some prefer small thickets. The role of shelters is excellently performed by snags and grottoes. These decorations with special lighting give a special charm and mystery to the underwater world. Allows you to create unique compositions and a true paradise for exotic inhabitants, the new habitat for which your aquarium has become. A self-made design makes it possible to carry out any creative ideas, there would be a desire.
Types of aquariums
The scenery for the subject environment of the underwater world serves as a win-win decoration of the aquarium. But the main component of internal design is its thriving biosystem.
Aquariums by their purpose are divided into decorative and special (spawning, breeding, growing, quarantine and others). The most popular of them are species and biotope.
Species aquarium will not only decorate the interior of the house, but also give a unique opportunity to observe a certain type of fish or their closely related species. Its inhabitants have a significant impact on the design of the aquarium. It’s not difficult to make it with your own hands, but before embodying the idea, you should seriously familiarize yourself with the habits of the selected fish in their natural habitat.
Biotope aquariums reproduce an imitation of a natural biotope with a characteristic species of fish, plants and certain parameters of their habitual habitat.
Styles
For aquarium design does not stand out any uniform qualifications. Typically, the design of the project is carried out in the established stylistic areas. The main ones are:
- decorative;
- natural;
- Dutch;
- Japanese;
- pseudo-sea;
- storyline;
- vanguard;
- collection;
- seawater aquarium.
For newbies
For beginner naturalists, the best design option for the aquarium will be the collection style. This is an ideal option that allows you to "fill your hand." Everything is allowed here. You can mix plants, use their artificial simulations, choose any aquarium. Self-made design, allows you to create interesting compositions from plants of different textures and decorative elements. There is an opportunity to experiment with various storylines. The choice of plants should depend on the topic. For starters, it is recommended to give preference to unpretentious and hardy plants.
Natural style
In 1980, Takashi Amano, a famous Japanese water designer, introduced a new direction in the design of aquariums - the natural style. The philosophy of these aquarium paintings is in understanding and feeling of nature, recreated on the principle of "Wabi - Sabi" ("modest beauty").
This style draws inspiration from mountain and forest landscapes, water flows. With the help of various decorative elements (driftwood, stones) that define the focal points of design, small architectural forms are created . Their asymmetric placement, based on the "golden section" rule, makes it possible to set the direction of the natural (natural) sense of perception of the whole composition.
Flocking fish effectively emphasize recreated landscapes, add variety to the underwater world and literally make you pay attention to the aquarium. DIY design (100 liters volume, not less than) a miniature version in a natural style is better to start with the use of no more than 5 species of plants.
Underwater garden
One of the most beautiful directions in creating the underwater world is considered the Dutch style. It’s quite exciting to make such an aquarium design with your own hands. 250 liters for the creation of an underwater garden is the best option.
The basis of this style are aquarium plants of various textures, shapes, sizes and colors. Paths from green spaces, occupying almost the entire main area of the bottom, allows you to create an amazing effect of depth. Architectural forms in the form of decorative snags and stones are present in limited quantities. The well-kept underwater garden is visually perfect and interesting.
Seawater aquarium
Many people today are keen on breeding marine fish. It is more difficult to prepare a biological environment for them, especially with the use of living corals, which are quite demanding on water parameters. But experienced naturalists are quite capable of creating such an aquarium design with their own hands. 200 liters is the optimal average volume for enjoying the contemplation of the marine underwater world. It should not be overpopulated with living beings, since a limited life support system operates in such a tank.
It is necessary to design the design of a marine aquarium taking into account its type, which, not least, depends on the inhabitants. It can be predators (sharks, stingrays, moray eels), non-predatory fish (zebrasoma, angel fish and other species) or corals and invertebrates anemones.
Predatory fish are considered the most unpretentious
, invertebrates are more difficult to care for, which can die from minor deviations in the chemical parameters of water.
For the life support of such aquariums, it is worth purchasing expensive equipment. It will need to be decoded, it is worth considering when developing the design of the aquarium with your own hands. The photo shows how you can successfully hide all the wires, hoses and tubes, decorating the background with picturesque coral reefs, stones and shelters for fish in the form of mysterious grottoes and caves.
Aquascaping
Having acquired practical skills and drawing on the experience gained over time, you can try to master such a special kind of art, a kind of analogue of landscape design for parks and gardens, like aquascaping.
This is a do-it- yourself aquarium landscaping that able to create more experienced aquarists. They organize the underwater world with the help of certain rules of aquascaping. This direction in aqua design involves a composition thought out to the smallest detail. To create an underwater landscape, decorative elements, plants and inhabitants are selected that can not only coexist peacefully, but also express the main idea contained in the landscape.
Aquarium background
A beautiful background for the design of the back wall of the aquarium is easily created with the help of special films on which the images of the underwater world are applied. They can also simply have a rich blue color, creating the effect of depth and contrast. But it’s much more interesting, including imagination, to think over the background, size and volume of the tank, the used decorations and include everything in the developed aquarium design with your own hands: 250 liters, there is a stone background, spectacular driftwood, stones, moss, various plants - all these elements will be perfect by the way.
It is worth noting that the
background of the aquarium often gives the whole composition (especially volumetric) a unique charm and naturalness of the aquatic environment. It is not difficult to create it with your own hands, using, for example, polystyrene, broken down by different pieces, which is glued to the back wall of the aquarium and painted with special paint with intermittent strokes. It turns out an excellent imitation of a stone background. It can be done in a similar way, using pieces of bark from snags.
The composition can be created from dead coral, stones from the sea reef. In the marine aquarium, small invertebrates, polyps and other inhabitants will find refuge here.
The aquarium design, designed and executed with your own hands, allows you to implement a considerable number of excellent ideas for plot aquariums using exotic plants, shells, sea stones. An incredible number of them can be realized by creating your own "rock gardens". And then, with pleasure, watch flickering brightly colored fish with an unusual color on their background.
The main thing is not to overdo it with decorative elements, plants and aquarium inhabitants. Everything should be harmoniously combined, give pleasure to its creator and not harm the fish.
Aquarium - an element of the interior
Due to the unusual beauty, modern aquariums can become a real gem of any interior. The variety of styles and forms is simply amazing. Aquariums can be suspended, floor, built-in. A stunning effect in the room is created by diorama aquariums, their shape as if facilitating immersion in an exciting water world. Hand-made version improves well-being and uplifting. Today, even a dry aquarium is not uncommon. A self-made design allows you to give yourself an unusual creative concept of a sea landscape. Many solutions can be created thanks to an incredible flight of creativity. It is definitely simple and incredibly interesting!