A small aquarium layout featuring Octopus, 60 L, by Giuseppe Schiros. The hardscape focus sits on Lava rock, wine wood.
Read the stone and wood (Lava rock, wine wood) as visual pathways before judging the plant mass. The plant list (Vascicularia montagnei, fissidens fontanus, rotala h’, eleocheris) favors mosses and epiphytes; packing the foreground too dense can make the tank feel heavy. Inert, colorado sand substrate helps stabilize root-zone nutrition in the early weeks.
Chiriros lighting sits at a approachable technical level for this small aquarium. Eheim filtration needs enough turnovers without blasting the hardscape; browse matching filters. 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 55–80L.
