About Aquariadise
Aquariadise is a blog about everything freshwater aquarium. Its aim is to spread knowledge about fishkeeping, bust fishkeeping myths, and help out beginning aquarists as well as long-time aquarium lovers. The site contains info on setting up your own aquarium, fish and plant caresheets, stocking and aquascaping info, and above all, plenty of inspiration. Be sure to browse all the categories and subscribe to the mailing list for regular aquarium inspiration in your mailbox!
Meet The Team
Mari
Founder · Fishkeeping & Houseplants
Marijke (Mari) is the founder of Aquariadise. Based in the Netherlands and studying Communication Science, she got into fishkeeping in 2010 with her very first 5-gallon dwarf shrimp tank and has been writing about fish and plants ever since.
She also runs the houseplant-focused Houseplant Central and hopes to eventually make blogging her full-time job.
Lena
Planted Tanks & Aquascaping
Lena is the aquascaper on the team, happiest with a pair of long tweezers in hand and a carpet of dwarf baby tears slowly filling in. She writes about planted tanks, aquascaping design, freshwater shrimp, and the weirdly specific satisfaction of watching a crypt finally decide it likes your tank.
Before writing full-time, Lena ran a small indoor plant shop, which she swears is a gateway drug to underwater plants.
Alison
Tropical Species & Breeding
Alison is a professional freelance writer with over 35 years of fishkeeping experience. She started at age 12 with two goldfish named Mister and Missus, got a tropical setup for her 15th birthday, and never looked back.
Today she keeps two large freshwater tanks and has bred everything from kribensis cichlids to bettas. Her favorites include cichlids, discus, tiger barbs, and Corydoras catfish. When she’s not checking water quality, you’ll find her reading about wildlife or writing teen pony novels.
Ben
Beginner-Friendly Fishkeeping
Ben writes for the person staring at a 10-gallon starter kit wondering what on earth a cycle is. Community tanks, beginner fish, troubleshooting the cloudy water your local fish store blamed on “new tank syndrome” and then left you to figure out.
He believes the hobby loses too many people in the first month, and a patient explainer plus a proper fishless cycle would save most of them.
Jennifer
Saltwater & Reef Tanks
Jennifer is a Marine Science graduate from Eckerd College with a B.S. in Biology (and a minor in Music). She started with freshwater over a decade ago, navigated the usual parade of failures and successes, and transitioned to saltwater.
Her current setup is a 10-gallon reef tank, and a planted freshwater build is on her eventual roadmap.
Ruth
Species Spotlights & Single-Species Tanks
Ruth is the species nerd who will talk gourami temperament with you for forty minutes and not notice the time pass. She writes species spotlights (corydoras, rasboras, killifish, the weird stuff), single-species setups, and the matchmaking piece nobody does well: which fish actually belongs in your tank versus which fish the internet just told you to buy.
Fifteen years in the hobby, still keeps a sticky note of her dream blackwater build on the side of her monitor.
The beautiful photos of fish you see on our site are sourced from Depositphotos.com unless noted otherwise.