Today it is easy to implement design solutions for the interior and exterior of aquariums on a turnkey basis. 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. The design, carried out with your own hands, will make it possible to realize any idea, making the created underwater world the main element of the interior of the room.
Aqua design
It is best to keep aquarium fish for those people who see this as a pleasant activity and relaxation, and not troubles and problems. After all, it is not enough just to buy an aquarium and let the inhabitants into it. It is also important to be able to take care of him so that he is not just liked, but delivered aesthetic pleasure.
The underwater world at home or in the office is a kind of living picture, it is a wayemphasize the individuality of the interior. Aquadesign is an integral part of the aquarium hobby. His own vision of the design of the underwater world guarantees him a special uniqueness. Thinking through their art project, real aquarists approach it with all their hearts. 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. The design, made with your own hands, 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 scenes, mountain valleys, mangrove forests.
With your 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 decide on 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 particular area. The selection of the internal filling of the aquarium and its appearance should harmoniously blend into the environment.
Fish are also of great importance. The design is developed for them, with the obligatory consideration of their habitual 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, someprefer 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. They allow you to create unique compositions and a real paradise for exotic inhabitants, for which your aquarium has become a new habitat. Design, made by hand, makes it possible to implement any creative ideas, there would be a desire.
Types of aquariums
Decorations for the subject environment of the underwater world serve as a win-win decoration of the aquarium. But the core of the interior design is its thriving biosystem.
Aquariums according to their purpose are divided into decorative and special (spawning, selection, nursery, quarantine and others). The most popular of them are species and biotopes.
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 influence on the design of the aquarium. Making it with your own hands is not difficult at all, but before implementing the idea, you should seriously familiarize yourself with the habits of the selected fish in their natural habitat.
Biotope aquariums reproduce an imitation of any natural biotope with a characteristic type of fish, plants and certain parameters of their usual habitat.
Styles
There is no single qualification for aquarium design. Usually the design of the project is carried out according to established stylistic directions. The main ones are:
- decorative;
- natural;
- dutch;
- Japanese;
- pseudo-sea;
- plot;
- avant-garde;
- collector;
- marine aquarium.
For beginners
For beginner naturalists, the collection style will be the best option for decorating an aquarium. This is the perfect option to "fill your hand." Everything is allowed here. You can mix plants, use their artificial imitations, choose any aquarium. Design, brought to life with your own hands, allows you to create interesting compositions from plants of different textures and decorative elements. There is an opportunity to experiment with different storylines. The choice of plants should depend on the subject. To begin with, it is recommended to give preference to unpretentious and hardy plants.
Nature style
In 1980, Takashi Amano, a well-known Japanese aquatic designer, introduced a new direction in aquarium decoration - nature style. The philosophy of these aquarium paintings lies in the understanding and feeling of nature, recreated according to the principle of "Wabi - Sabi" ("modest beauty").
This style draws inspiration from mountain and forest landscapes, water streams. With the help of various decorative elements (snags, stones) that set the focal points of design, small architectural forms are created. Their asymmetric placement, based on the "golden section" rule, makes it possible to setthe direction of the natural (natural) sense of perception of the entire composition.
Schooling fish will effectively emphasize the recreated landscapes, add variety to the underwater world and literally force you to pay attention to the aquarium. Do-it-yourself design (100 liters of volume, no less) of a miniature version in a natural style is better to start with the use of no more than 5 types of plants.
Underwater Garden
One of the most beautiful trends in the creation of the underwater world is the Dutch style. It is quite exciting to make a similar aquarium design with your own hands. 250 liters for creating an underwater garden is quite the best option.
The basis of this style are aquarium plants of various textures, shapes, sizes and colors. Paths of greenery, 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-groomed underwater garden is visually perfect and interesting.
Sea Aquarium
Many people today are passionate about 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 in such a reservoirlimited life support system in place.
Designing the design of a marine aquarium is necessary taking into account its appearance, which, last but not least, depends on the inhabitants. These can be predators (sharks, rays, moray eels), non-predatory fish (zebrasoma, angelfish and other species) or corals and invertebrate sea 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, this is worth considering when designing an aquarium with your own hands. The photo shows how well you can 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.
Aquascape
Acquiring practical skills and relying 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 an aquascaping.
This is a DIY aquarium landscaping that more experienced aquarists can create. The underwater world is organized by them with the help of certain aquascaping rules. This direction in aqua design implies a composition thought out to the smallest detail. To create an underwater landscape, decorative elements, plants and inhabitants are selected,able not only to coexist peacefully, but also to express the main idea contained in the landscape.
Aquarium background
A beautiful background for decorating the back wall of an aquarium is easily created with the help of special films on which images of the underwater world are applied. They can also just have a rich blue color that creates the effect of depth and contrast. But it is much more interesting, including fantasy, to think over the background, the size and volume of the tank, the decorations used 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 entire composition (especially the volume) a unique charm and naturalness of the aquatic environment. It is not difficult to create it with your own hands, using, for example, foam plastic broken in different pieces, which is glued to the back wall of the aquarium and painted over with special paint with intermittent strokes. It turns out an excellent imitation of a stone background. It can be made 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 shelter here.
The design of the aquarium, designed and made by hand, allows you to implement a considerable number of excellent ideas forplot aquariums using exotic plants, shells, sea pebbles. An incredible number of them can be brought to life by creating your own "rock gardens". And then with pleasure to watch the flashing of bright fish with an unusual color against their background.
The main thing is not to overdo it with decorative elements, plants and inhabitants of the aquarium. Everything should be harmoniously combined, give pleasure to its creator and not harm the fish.
Aquarium - interior element
Due to their unusual beauty, modern aquariums can become a real gem of any interior. The variety of styles and shapes is simply amazing. Aquariums can be suspended, floor, built-in. A stunning effect in the room is created by diorama aquariums, their shape seems to contribute to immersion in the breathtaking water world. Personally designed version improves well-being and uplifts the mood. Today, even a dry aquarium is not uncommon. The handmade design allows you to give yourself an unusual creative concept of the seascape. Many solutions can be created thanks to the incredible flight of creativity. It's definitely simple and incredibly fun!
