Visiting Aquascape Paradise at Shah Alam

Our next activity of this semester is visiting Aquascape Paradise at Shah Alam.

Aquascape Paradise is established at 29 November 2014

Before we start touring the shop, the instructor who giving us a briefing about the Aquascape Paradise first is Mr. Mohd Izzat. He explain everything about the shop, purpose, activities and many more

 

The purpose of this company to established is

1. Aqua Design Amano (ADA) supplier
2. Maintenance
3. Design and installation of natural aqua
4. Aqua decoration
5. Retail sale aquarium
6. Gardening tools accessories
7. Providing a live food 

and many more to community.

Input that we gain from this shop :

• There are 3 systems for aquascape which is marine, brackish and freshwater. The main system here is freshwater system.
• There two elements that we need to put inside the aquarium which is soft ; aquatic plant and hard ; rock, bog wood , driftwood and many more.
• After putting these two elements, the only thing to do here is put some aeration and wait the tank to be "matured" which is nitrogen cycle must had inside the tank with specific steps. This is because we bringing the nature from outside to inside for the fish and aquatic plant.
• The benefits of doing aquascape is healthy hobby, appreciating the nature, save the organisms of outside from polluted and many more.
• There are four types of designs of aquascape;
  
  1.    Iwagumi concept - it is a formation of rock
                                      - the origin of this concept is from Japan
  
  2.    Biotope concept   -Planted the elements besides of the water
                                      - The elements is being collected from nature
  
  3.     Dutch concept -the origin is from Germany
                                  - usually this concept is more to colourful concept to cheer the environment, aquascape lover or the tank itself
  
  4.      Nature concept  -  nature concept is like a "copycat" from their origin habitat

Many things that we learn from Mr.Izzat about aquascape like how to design it, what we need to put inside the tank, how many elements that we need to put based on the tank size, what type of organisms should put inside it and more. After he done giving the briefing, one of their staff shows us some demo about aquascape using a given element.

Picture 1 : This is the finishing of the demo of aquascape. The element that we need to put is a driftwood, any aquatic plant, aeration, some wire or sting to ligament the plant and some soil or fertilizer. Then wait about 3 week to make sure the tank is "matured" enough to sell and put a live organisms like fish inside  it.

After  finishing the demonstration, we take our time to tour the shop.

Picture 2 : The gardening tool or maintenance need for aquascape

Picture 3 : Various of food to feed the ornamental fish

It's been a great pleasure to visit one of the best branch in aquascape company.