The term ’Nature Style’ is intimately linked to the work of Takashi Amano, the founder of ADA (Aquascape Design Amano) and its approach to planted tanks. Nature Style aquascapes are by definition ’naturalistic’: hardscape and plants are placed in a way that echo what can be found in nature. They are characterised by subtlety: no hardscape element or single plant species stand out outlandishly (in contrast with Dutch Style tanks), and generally involve the ‘bonsai’ sensibility of miniaturising an imagined natural landscape within the confines of the tank. Nature Style tanks differ from more complicated ‘competition’ diorama aquascapes by being far less obsessed with depth illusion/ perspective and technical composition. In that sense Nature Style takes a minimalistic, naturalistic approach to tank layout.