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was a photographer, designer and aquarist. His interest in aquaria led him to create the Japanese company Aqua Design Amano. Amano was the author of ''Nature Aquarium World'' (TFH Publications, 1994), a three-book series on aquascaping and freshwater aquarium plants and fish. He has also published the book ''Aquarium Plant Paradise'' (T.F.H. Publications, 1997). A species of freshwater shrimp is named the “Amano shrimp” or "Yamato shrimp" (''Caridina multidentata''; previously ''Caridina japonica'') after him. After discovering this species' ability to eat large quantities of algae, Amano asked a local distributor to special order several thousand of them. They have since become a staple in the freshwater planted aquarium hobby. He also developed a line of aquarium components that are known as ADA, and his "Nature Aquarium" article series appeared monthly in both ''Practical Fishkeeping'' magazine in the UK, and ''Tropical Fish Hobbyist'' magazine in the US. He died in 2015 at the age of 61.〔(Website of the City of Niigata ) (Japanese language)〕 ==Aquarist== Takashi Amano wrote about freshwater aquascaping. He established a distinctive style of plant layout.〔Axelrod, Herbert R., Warren E. Burgess, Neal Pronek, Glen S. Axelrod and David E. Boruchowitz (1998), ''Aquarium Fishes of the World'', Neptune City, N.J.: T.F.H. Publications, p. 718, ISBN 0-7938-0493-0.〕 He employed Japanese gardening concepts such as Wabi-sabi and Zen rock arrangement. His tank compositions sought to mimic nature in their appearance. Amano also made extensive use of ''Glossostigma elatinoides'' and ''Riccia fluitans'' as plant material, and used shrimp as a means of controlling the growth of algae. He founded Aqua Design Amano Co., Ltd. in 1982, providing aquatic plant growing equipment. His photo books of what he called the "Nature Aquarium", ''Glass no Naka no Daishizen'', published in 1992, followed by ''Mizu-Shizen eno kaiki'', were translated into 7 languages. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Takashi Amano」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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