The Tint

Author: The Tint Blog

• A MOST INTIMATE RELATIONSHIP, AND THE PRACTICE OF “OPERATIONAL ECOLOGY…”

  November 4, 2025
• WHERE WATER AND LAND MEET…

  November 4, 2025
• BACK TO THE JUNGLE!

  November 4, 2025
• ABOVE AND BELOW THE WATERLINE, AND COMPLETELY OUT OF YOUR COMFORT ZONE!

  November 4, 2025
• EDITING.

  November 4, 2025
• CONTINUITY.

  November 4, 2025
• LEAF LITTER: THE BASIS FOR EVERYTHING?

  November 4, 2025
• MIND GAMES AND MENTAL SHIFTS: THE AQUARIUM IS “THE FILTER.”

  November 4, 2025
• AT THE INCEPTION…

  November 4, 2025
• MUD, KILLIES, AND MENTAL SHIFTS…AGAIN!

  November 4, 2025
• SUBSTRATES: SAND, ROCKS, AND THE “STUFF ON THE BOTTOM”

  November 4, 2025
• FROM ABOVE…

  November 4, 2025
• WHAT MOVES STUFF…

  November 4, 2025
• THE WONDER OF FOOD WEBS…

  November 4, 2025
• ALL HAIL THE FUNGI!

  November 4, 2025
• WHERE THE FOOD COMES FROM…

  November 4, 2025
• The SEARCH FOR BLACKWATER LIVEBEARERS : PART 3

  November 4, 2025
• BLACKWATER LIVEBEARERS? THE SEARCH CONTINUES…

  November 4, 2025
• MY SEARCH FOR BLACKWATER LIVEBEARERS…A TWISTED SAGA! (PART 1)

  November 4, 2025
• DOES THAT “BLACKWATER AQUARIUM” ACTUALLY CONTAIN “BLACKWATER?”

  November 4, 2025
• THE ART OF TRANSITIONING A BOTANICAL METHOD AQUARIUM: CASE STUDY.

  November 4, 2025
• Meeting Nature HALFWAY…

  November 4, 2025
• HERE’S MUD IN YOUR…TANK?

  November 4, 2025
• EVOLVING THE “SPACE BETWEEN:” THE BOTANICAL METHOD BRACKISH WATER AQUARIUM

  November 4, 2025
• WHEN “PROBLEMS” ARE NOT REALLY PROBLEMS: EMBRACING NEW WAYS OF THINKING IN THE AQUARIUM HOBBY

  November 4, 2025
• BIG ROOTS. HUGE IMPLICATIONS!

  November 4, 2025
• ECOLOGY FIRST…

  November 4, 2025
• THE CONCEPT OF “CONTINUITY” IN THE BOTANICAL METHOD AQUARIUM

  November 4, 2025
• Throughout the SEASONS…

  November 4, 2025
• TAKING THE “BLAH” OUT OF BARBS… THE FISHES THAT GET NO RESPECT!

  November 4, 2025
• “SELF FEEDING” BOTANICAL METHOD AQUARIUMS: CONCEPT OR JUST A WACKY IDEA?

  November 4, 2025
• THE “CURSE OF THE KISSING GOURAMI?” OR…A HOBBY LESSON LEARNED?

  November 4, 2025
• LITTLE TETRA. BIG IDEAS.

  November 4, 2025
• THE “VARZEA VERSION.”

  November 4, 2025
• EVOLUTION IN AQUARIUMS AND OUR PRACTICES…

  November 4, 2025
• “WHAT FILTER DO YOU USE?”

  November 4, 2025
• “Weird” SUBSTRATES: THE NEXT FRONTIER IN BOTANICAL METHOD AQUARIUM KEEPING?

  November 4, 2025
• The STUFF WE’VE BEEN TOLD TO BE AFRAID OF…

  November 4, 2025
• THE “FERMENTATION FACTOR” AND OTHER MUSINGS ON LEAF LITTER BEDS IN AQUARIUMS.

  November 4, 2025
• NATURE WILL SORT IT OUT.

  November 4, 2025
• TREES OF LIFE? THE “FUNCTIONAL AESTHETICS” OF WOOD IN OUR AQUARIUMS

  November 4, 2025
• WHEN THE FISH HOOKS THE MAN…

  November 4, 2025
• THE UPSIDE OF DETRItUS?

  November 4, 2025
• THE BIOME

  November 4, 2025
• “The operating system”

  November 4, 2025
• “ENVIRONMENTAL INTIMACY” AND THE CASE FOR KILLIFISHES

  November 4, 2025
• BOTANICAL METHOD “MENTAL SHIFTS” WE HAVE TO MAKE: ACCEPTING “THE BIG THREE”, and the “gospel” according to scott..

  November 4, 2025
• a bit more on water Clarity and color…I call it “flavor.”

  November 4, 2025
• water colors?

  November 4, 2025
• common. in an uncommon way?

  November 4, 2025
• back to nature. literally.

  November 4, 2025
• It’s raining life in the “urban igapo”

  November 4, 2025
• THE “FUNGAL FILTER”-FREE FOR THE TAKING…

  November 4, 2025
• TRANSIENCE, EMBRACING THE EPHEMERAL…AND AN APPRECIATION FOR “WABI-SABI.”

  November 4, 2025
• STREAMING ALONG…

  November 4, 2025
• OAK SPRINGS ETERNAL.

  November 4, 2025