About GWA
*WELCOME TO GREEN WATER AQUASCAPES*
Aquascaping is evolving, as it has always been since the beginning. It began merely as an underwater garden in the form of Dutch Tanks or Community Tanks. It then evolved into Nature Aquariums, a revolutionary concept, conceived by late Mr Takashi Amano. The latest trend in aquascaping is Paludariums, which incorporates nature in its totality into it, featuring both aquatic life and terrestrial life in a single place.
Green Water Aquascapes provides all expertise required to bring this beautiful vision of our customers into a beautiful reality. Green Water Aquascapes is committed to providing good quality hydroponically grown aquarium plants from our greenhouses. For more serious enthusiasts we provide tissue cultured plants as well.
Growers adopt different propagation methods to grow aquarium plants for sales.
Underwater Culture: The plants are grown in submerged conditions (underwater conditions) in troughs or concrete tanks. This is a very common type of cultivation as submerged growth brings about beautiful colour development of leaves. However, we cannot have precise control over nutrient application and generally plants are less healthy and may be exposed to several pests like snails.
Emersed Culture or Above Water Culture: We at Green Water Aquascapes use the more modern Hydroponic Technology which grows plants hydroponically in climate controlled greenhouses, ensuring that the plants grow in its prime health, by precise application of nutrients in the circulating medium. TDS, PH and alkalinity are regularly monitored to keep all these parameters in ranges optimum for plant growth.
Emersed grown plants, though, won’t display vibrant leaf colourations, but they will be in prime health. These plants are also less exposed to pests and disease conditions as they are grown in an enclosed environment. Moreover, these plants can establish themselves very well in aquariums and can survive in newly set up aquariums.
Emergent growth and submerged growth exhibit different leaf characteristics with respect to leaf size, shape and colour.
Tissue Culture: Tissue cultured aquarium plants are very popular among serious hobbyists as they are totally free of pests, disease and algae. Moreover, the moisture level in the cup is high, the plants exhibit more or less similar leaf characteristics of underwater grown plants, giving them the best of both worlds. These plants are already proven for their faster adaptability to new tanks which is the prime reason why seasoned hobbyists prefer the tissue cultured plants.