Takashi Amano

Visual Artist

1954 –

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Who is Takashi Amano?

Takashi Amano is a photographer, designer and aquarist. His interest in aquaria led him to create the Japanese company Aqua Design Amano.

Amano is the author of Nature Aquarium World, a three-book series on aquascaping and freshwater aquarium plants and fish. He has also published the book "Aquarium Plant Paradise".

A species of freshwater shrimp is named the “Amano shrimp” or "Yamato shrimp" 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 has also developed a line of aquarium components that are known as ADA, and his “Nature Aquarium” article series appears monthly in both Practical Fishkeeping magazine in the UK, and Tropical Fish Hobbyist magazine in the US.

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Born
Jul 18, 1954
Niigata
Nationality
  • Japan

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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