There two general categories of aquascapes: natural and ornamental. The objective of the natural aquascape is to make your tank appear as it might look in real life nature. If you're a purist, you might want to use your aquascaping skills to create a biotope tank, which I'II discuss later on in this article. An ornamental aquascape is one which is limited only by your imagination. It is the common experience of serious hobbyists that fish look their best in more natural settings. It's not that the fish really care, but rather, that their colors and patterns often with subtle shading and iridescence seem to get lost when they are competing with bright, garish aquascaping. We begin at the bottom of the tank, which you will want to cover with gravel of some sort. Before you select gravel, however, you want to give some consideration to the type of filtration you will be using an undergravel filter or some other type, such as a power or canister filter. Extremely fine gravel will rapidly clog with detritus, making an undergravel filter ineffective. Detritus is an accumulation of disintegrated materials, such as uneaten foods, decomposing plant matter or fine particles of gravel, that builds up over time on and the gravel bed. On the other hand, gravel that is too large will trap food where your fish can't get to it, and this accumulating food will make it increasingly difficult to maintain good water quality. I like to use gravel in most of my aquascaped tanks each pebble is about 3 millimeters in size. This gravel, which is natural in color, is available just about everywhere. Try to get the kind where the edges of the individual pebbles are somewhat rounded. The reason for this is to avoid sharp edges, which can injure the sensitive barbels and underbellies of bottom-dwelling fishes, such as catfish. Speaking of sharp edges, no glass gravel, please ! The edges on this stuff can be as sharp as a razor. You should also take gravel color into consideration. In general, fish are darker on top than on the bottom.
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