NEW & INSPIRING Botanicals & Hardscape For Nature Tank Aquascaping. Stone, Wood & Tannins.
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ส.ค. 2023
- www.bettabotanicals.com
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Hey! It's me! Thank you so much for visiting my friends at Aquarium Zen, they are so cool and were my first ever wholesale account!
Oh Right on! I really love what you're doing and the sustainable packaging aspect of it. I collect local botanicals and research various botanicals for people looking to import new and unusual stuff.
I find it interesting that there are wholesalers now noticing that these plants are useful to the aquarium hobby. For years imports were from dietary/folk medicine and supplements or floral elements and just repurposed ... but it seems to be really taking off!
I wish there was a cool fish store like that around here. I love to shop for stuff like that in person.
It's the best in WA / Seattle by a ways ...for aquascaping, plants and nanofish ...no big fish or cichlids beyond small ones under 5 inches max...which is fine with me
Very cool presentation of the various types of stone and Botanicals, Alex. THANKS
Sure thing
This is an inspiring and impressive selection! 😍Thanks!
Oooh, my wallet is so relieved that I was not with you in person, lol 😅
Lol me too ( my wallet wasnt)
That's a decent variety of botanicals (and other stuff)!
Probably best in WA
Btw, very well placed pics and text! Good job on the editing - it still very much feels like an Alex video, which is very important to us! 😊
Thanks apparently the youtube doesnt want anyone to see this video though lol its shown the thumbnail to 1,100 ppl and 233 watched...which is a SUPER high rate, yet its being buried for some reason. Weird
@@Fishtory that must be SO frustrating! :(
good to know !!
I can locally gather casuarina pods, needles (I never knew), loquat (backyard), magnolia (sister's trees)
Looks like I maybe upping my botanicals game
Gathering botanicals is amazing. It's how I started in this hobby and business!
Great looking store Alex!Thanks for sharing 😊
Thanks for watching!
I definitely gotta come check this place out, next time I'm in Seattle. Love the botanical selection, and that hakkai stone looks so good!!
Cool variety of stuff there
Totally! Probably best shop in seattle
Boosting for the algorithm 🙌 Love your work, keep it up! 🌻🐝
Love these videos! I am definitely wanting to have a beta tank or two so I can have the experience of having blackwater tanks before I get my elephant trunk snake. And I need to get a different snake just to have the experience of owning a snake 😅 starting out really sucks but I am so excited to learn so much! Thank you for having these videos!
I think I have some pagona stone in my dad's pea gravel flowerbed! Ive been stealin all kinds of quartz and cool rocks out of it and found some like that! 😅
Lol i raid any new construction area where they build roads for the heavy excavators and construction
@@Fishtory good idea!
Thanks for another informative video, Alex! I'm rooting curly willow cuttings in my tank primarily for the red roots, but now I'll retain the fallen leaves as well.
Fallen leaves are so good to use in tanks!
I wonder what pack MD Fishtanks uses 🤷🏾♂️
His botanical game is on another level. The weirdest looking pods are in what he uses
European shops such as German andl Czech imports a wide array of botanicals. Even floral shops
I got my killifish from Czechia, I wonder if I can message him to get some lol and of course more killifish eggs! 😂
MD probably buys some botanicals, but he also collects some in a creak (twigs, elder cones, leaves). He also used "organic" Rooibos tea for a tint.
Not many Czech shops actually, except catapa (almond) leaves, cholla wood or alder cones. Shrimp e-shops should have wider variety. Still, catapa leaves are pretty good and I buy them at LFS for less than 250 CZK (11 $) in a pretty large bag (like a large bag of chips). Big brands sell just a tiny packages for the same price. I can see German stores having wider variety, maybe more expensive.
I heard health food shops also sell almond leaves (for making some sort of tea). Last, but not least, I've been thinking about checking one of those fish auction events (which means waking up early on Sunday morning), they might have some botanicals.
@PaulZyCZ thats interesting to hear since the country has ranked the 4th to 7th biggest breeder and seller of tropical fish...the only non tropical country for that matter. But places like Petra and Marine SRO. export A TON. So does that inventory not really translate to local fish stores? Admittedly this shop here in seattle is one of the best ive seen out of 2 or 300 shops around the USA....SO its definitely not the norm
@@Fishtory We still have some active breeders and every bigger town has some fish stores. I grew up in Hodonín, small district town, which had 4 fish stores and even a tropical fish warehouse at one point. Now I live in the regional capital Brno and there is about twice as many fish stores, some pet shops, breeders who sell directly and e-shops. I heard that in the past there was at least one breeder on the block with a room full of tanks. There's probably less breeders nowadays, but some of them went from 1 room full of breeding fishtanks to a warehouse. It's similar with Rataj and Invital which have greenhouses of aquarium plants. LFS nearby goes to multiple breeders, one specializes on guppies, other on African great lakes, another tetras, etc.
I know botanicals have been used in the past, but I don't think they were being sold that much in LFS. Also most LFS here are just 1 or 2 rooms (not counting back rooms for staff), not like a supermarket (sadly).
Damn, I am envious. We have one Petco here, and their selection of everything is sparse, even by their corporate standards. I'm drooling over this vid. Do you have another one showing their fish???
Update: Okay, went to their website, and am trying to retrieve my eyeballs from the surface of my desk, where they landed when they jumped out looking at the stuff in that store.
Yes i have quite a few tours of aquarium zen, as i worked there 8 years ago and learned a lot from their world ranked aquascaping owner
I’m feeling really drawn to do a black water tank. I actually gathered some stones and aquatic plants from a local creek but couldn’t bring myself to use them. Too worried I’d harm the fish. Hopefully I can find betta botanicals here in the east coast
They have a website ... seems legit pricing and quality looked good. Everyone imports from the same vietnemese and srilanken 3 or 4 wholesalers for the most part...so look for a good price unless they say food grade and or organic...in which case i would pay a 20% mark up for hehe
@@Fishtory All my products are in home compostable packaging too. Nobody else does that with their botanicals.
@bettabotanicals that is awesome. Im hoping to do a new blackwater tank for my apisto megoptera pair soon, and I was excited to try some new pods as caves, plus just build up a nice duffy substrate of micro flora and fauna for the fry
@@Fishtory Let me know if you want to do a collab, I just launched an affiliate program too so I can get you a kickback link if you'd like.