Redmoor Root Wood: Over 230 New Pieces with 360° Photos

Redmoor Root Wood is a beautiful natural hardscape material which has been widely used in aquascaping for some time. Redmoor’s twisted and gnarled branches can add a touch of natural chaos to a planted aquarium. It also provides a great surface to grow mosses and other aquatic plants on. Like many of our other hardscape ranges, we have listed individual pieces with 360° photographs on our website. We are pleased to annunce that we’ve just…

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Takashi Amano in PFK

Famous aquascaper and founder of Aqua Design Amano, Takashi Amano, has written an article that has been published in this month’s Practical Fishkeeping Magazine. It features beautiful images of Takashi Amano’s Nature aquariums and a timeline of his life and achievements. At The Green Machine we are proud to be the UK’s largest stockist of ADA. We use all the products we sell, so that you can be confident that you will receive expert, practical,…

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‘Five Stones’ Aquascape by James Findley

The Inspiration… James wanted to create an original, modern Andy Warhol, pop-art style of Nature Aquarium. To do this, he used the ADA Sado-Akadama Stone which has a lovely red colour, and the ADA Aqua Screen in Clear Green because red and green are at opposite ends of the colour spectrum and therefore create a very dramatic contrast, like blue and orange or purple and yellow do. At first, James was not sure about the…

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‘Reciprocity’ Aquascape by James Findley

James Findley’s latest Aquascape ‘Reciprocity’ which measures a huge 305cm x 61cm x 61cm (approx. 1200 Litres)- come and see it progress in The Green Machine, Wrexham, UK! Livestock includes: 125 x Rasbora Merah, 80 x Black/Purple Harlequin Rasbora, 100 x Blue Line Rasbora, 20 x Botia sidthimunki, 50 x Rasbora kubotai, 60 x Rasbora espei, 45 x Emerald Eye Rasbora (Rasbora dorsiocellata), 70 x Amano Shrimp (Caridina Japonica). Mainly small species were chosen to…

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‘Five Stones’ Aquascape by James Findley – Time-Lapse Preview

James wanted to create an original, modern Andy Warhol, pop-art style of Nature Aquarium. To do this, he used the ADA Sado-Akadama Stone which has a lovely red colour,and the ADA Aqua Screen in Clear Green because red and green are at opposite ends of the colour spectrum and therefore create a very dramatic contrast, like blue and orange or purple and yellow do. At first, James was not sure about the Aqua Screen but…

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