Biotope aquarium
In aquaristics , a biotope aquarium is an aquarium in which a natural habitat is reproduced as precisely as possible. The term refers to both freshwater aquariums and saltwater aquariums . Fish, plants and invertebrates , whose habitats also overlap in the wild, are looked after.
Classically reproduced in the biotope aquarium are sections of biotopes such as a brook in the Amazon basin , a sour water pond in the Amazon basin, a Central American coastal brook , a West African river, a Tanganyika biotope , a rocky coast in Lake Malawi, a south-east Asian brook, a south-east Asian irrigation canal into the sea, which is of the type of a brackish water aquarium , or a river in Australia / New Guinea.
Also, the flow tank with a replica of a stream run or rock pools with the display of the Lake Malawi and a stocking with Mbunas are examples of a biotope aquarium.
Heiko Bleher propagates the establishment or aquarium keeping and compilation of the animal and plant species in biotope aquariums according to the conditions he found at the respective sites.
Although the name natural aquarium triggers a similar association , the name propagated by the Japanese photographer and aquarist Takashi Amano is not a biotope aquarium. Here only landscapes are artistically implemented under water using the means of aquaristics and photography. In contrast to the biotope aquarium, plants and animals are socialized in the community aquarium , which do not have an overlapping distribution area.
One of the advantages of a biotope aquarium is that the fish prefer the same conditions in terms of water parameters and the set-up of the aquarium.