A large aquarium layout featuring Reaching, 242 L, by Matthew Mcgrath. The hardscape focus sits on Seiryu stone, red cedar wood.
Read the stone and wood (Seiryu stone, red cedar wood) as visual pathways before judging the plant mass. On the plant side, the layout leans toward slow-growing epiphytes with species such as Anubias petite, pogostamon helferi, blyxa japonica — trim in layers so hardscape still breathes. Neo soil, sand, gravel substrate helps stabilize root-zone nutrition in the early weeks.
Chihiros wrgb 2 lighting sits at a moderate-to-high technical level for this large aquarium. Fluval fx4,407 filtration needs enough turnovers without blasting the hardscape; browse matching filters.
Lighting, filtration, substrate, and plant details sit in the specs table below, or browse more layouts in 220–320L.
