“Woosh… Tunk!” Goes the Japanese Shishi-Odoshi

So, you’ve set up a gorgeous backyard pond aquascape only to discover that deer and other animals view the plant life like some sort of all-you-can-eat buffet. Putting up a fence will distract from the beauty of your aquascape, and you can’t exactly patrol your property with a shotgun all day. The Japanese have solved…

Blue Is the New Green: Creating Beautiful Ponds on Eco-Friendly Rooftops

In the last decade, “green rooftops” have become an important instrument of urban environmentalism. Green rooftops are typically a bunch of plants literally planted on a roof- a layer of dirt (or another “planting medium”) and a drainage layer are installed over an insulation layer on top of the roof. The benefits of this are…

Can Luxury Aquariums Double as Natural Swimming Pools?

How would you like to swim with the fishes? No, I don’t mean in the “killed by the mafia” sense of the phrase — I mean literally swim alongside fish. Some squeamish folk may not be keen on the idea, but others adore the idea of a natural, beautiful aquascape that is both an art piece and…

Koi in the Living Room: A Luxury Indoor Pond Brings Serenity to Your House

An indoor koi pond brings you the peace of a pond without distractions. Image from aquaeden.com It’s hard to hear the phrase “koi pond” without feeling a sense of peace. They are famous for being a corner of your backward toward which you can retreat, and lets the stressful veil of the modern world slip…

Koi Ponds

FROM ANCIENT CHINA to MODERN MANHATTAN, FISHPONDS are the MOST NATURAL DOMESTIC SETTING for AQUATIC LIFE, a PERMANENT CENTERPIECE WHETHER INDOORS or OUTDOORS. MORE COMPLEX than they MAY FIRST APPEAR, PONDS AND WATERFALLS REQUIRE COMPREHENSIVE FILTRATION andEXPERT CONSTRUCTION to GUARANTEE a SELF-SUSTAINING HABITAT. OKEANOS TAKES into ACCOUNT CLIMATE, WATER CHEMISTRY andESTHETIC CONSIDERATIONS BEFORE CUSTOMIZING a FILTRATION SYSTEM which WILL ENSURE LONGEVITY andEFFICIENCY. BUILDING upon this SOLID FOUNDATION WITH STATE of the ART MATERIALS, OKEANOS OFFERS a HUGE RANGE of DESIGN OPTIONS from the MODEST to the MONUMENTAL, with HABITATS RANGING from TRADITIONAL JAPANESE…