How this scape works

Built around the hardscape, not a carpet — weathered stone and wood are arranged to give the resident fish room to patrol, with only the toughest salt-tolerant epiphytes softening the rock where most plants can’t grow.

At a glance

Why Gensou recommends this design

• A true brackish biotope — the stone-and-wood hardscape is the scape, so it holds its look without a planted carpet to maintain.
• Open sand and stone hollows give the fish room to patrol, hunt and shelter — natural behaviour on display.
• Salt-tolerant epiphytes only (java fern, anubias) — low-maintenance greenery that actually survives brackish water.
• Proven in a Singapore home — this design is based on a real Gensou build.