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Who Want NPTs ?
NPTs stands for Natural Planted Tanks a way of aquascaping, it is an ecosystem where plants and fish balance each other needs an approach pioneered by Diana Walstad, author of the book ‘ecology of the planted aquarium- practical manual and scientific treatise for the home aquarist’.
This “el natural” style fish tank aquascaping that is low maintenance needs no worrying a bout the plant placement or composition, be a ware this is not an approach suitable for someone who likes to rescape their tank to often. this school of aquascaping also saves you money, want to know how? click here to read more tips on NPTs.
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That’s really interesting and worth a little more reading. The first home aquarium I ever saw was set up like that with nothing but gravel, fish and plants.
I did my best to get to this perfection, but after trying a year and half, I decided to add CO2 using a DIY system, which adds CO2 moderately compared to a balloon system.
None of my aquariums have ever reached that level of perfection, but I think they all have benefited from live plants.
That is really interesting. A low maintenance approach is very intriguing. It seems to go against nearly everything I have been learning. The photo looks great! Personally, I enjoy doing things like moving my plants around so I don’t think it will be for me. It would definitely make an interesting experiment though.
I thought about having an NPTS but i like to ‘fuss’ with the plants too.