A mid-size aquarium layout featuring hide and seek (AGA 2024 #379), 146 L, by Hiroyuki Sakamoto. The hardscape focus sits on drift wood.
Read the stone and wood (drift wood) as visual pathways before judging the plant mass. On the plant side, the layout leans toward slow-growing epiphytes with species such as micranthemum tweediei, rotala rotundifolia, microsorum pteropus trident — trim in layers so hardscape still breathes. white bord substrate helps stabilize root-zone nutrition in the early weeks.
Low-tech tip: favor slow growers and avoid dense planting if filtration is modest.
Lighting, filtration, substrate, and plant details sit in the specs table below, or browse more layouts in 80–162L.
