Indian Almond Leaf Catappa Leaf Benefits to Aquariums
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 23 ต.ค. 2021
- This video teaches the benefits of Indian Almond Leaves, also called catappa leaves, as well as other aquarium botanicals such as alder cones, guava leaves, oak leaves, driftwood, and more. Indian almond leaves, and aquarium botanicals in general, host a lot of benefits to the aquarium.
Adding botanicals typically means you're adding tannins to your aquarium as most, if not all, botanicals break down in water causing a yellow or brown tint to aquarium water.
One of the benefits to almond leaves are their ability to lower the ph in your aquarium naturally with a natural appearance. Also called catappa leaves, indian almond leaves also allow fish and shrimp a source of food as the leaves break down. Many shrimp, snails, and fish highly benefit from both of those benefits alone.
One huge benefit is the natural bacterias that prevent disease in aquariums as well. Guava leaves as well as many other botanicals host all of these benefits. Almond leaves are the most common option available. Adding catappa leaves and other botanicals also truly give your aquarium that natural appearance that many aquarists are striving to achieve these days.
A few creatures that highly benefit from these additions are shrimp such as caridinas and neocaridinas, snails, bettas, axolotls, corydoras, plecos, otocinclus, gobies, tetras, rasboras, lets face it, pretty much all aquarium creatures benefit!
Here are some links to direct you to a place to purchase some aquarium botanicals such as almond leaves as well as a link on how to prepare leaves and other botanicals for aquarium use.
Betta Botanicals - bettabotanicals.com/
How to Prepare Almond Leaves for Aquariums - • Preparing Indian Almon...
The natural protections from these botanicals is very beneficial. Good stuff 👍🏼
Agreed!!
Love Blackwater tanks! Good topic👍
Thank you! They’re so beneficial too!
Love this video!!!
Thank you!!!
thankyou for your information,
You’re welcome
I have been in the aquarium hobby for about 30 years and only recently heard about Catappa or Almond leaves. Maybe I never heard of them because I have always kept African Cichlids but I do take an interest in anything you can keep in an aquarium. I recently took an interest in smaller fish that can be kept in smaller tanks like Betas, Tetras, and Shrimp and that's how I heard about Almond leaves but most of the info was not very good. This video made me understand what the leaves do and why they are good for certain fish and Shrimp. Thank you !!
You’re very welcome! I’m extremely grateful I was able to help you expand in the hobby!
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@@jeffb5785 awesome thank you for the support!
Nice
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I have a talisay leaves
I have almond leaves. 10 leaves . 7 to 8 inches long. 5 bucks per pack. Lmk (:
But great informational video!
Thank you! I’ll keep that in mind!
Cheers buddy,do they have to be prepared,washed etc and how many?
I recommend it just because you never know what could be on them. Sure they’re found in “safe” areas, but it doesn’t mean nature didn’t deposit something on it haha.
Do you have any idea, suggestions about catappa leaves extracts?
Me personally I enjoyed making my own by boiling the leaves. I just don’t trust many things these days. The leaves I can easily verify what they are
Hi!
one question, are you still using the same co2 system that you showed in video? (aquario neo co2 kit)
Not at the moment. I’m waiting for a refill kit to be delivered. On these tanks tho, I will be using pressurized co2. I’m going to use the aquario kits on another tank on the other side of the room that I don’t want to feed too much co2
@@AquatikGuru ok thanks for the reply, i was thinking about using a similar kit on my 20 Lt Betta tank, do you think that is suitable?
Definitely. It’s not too much co2. It’s almost the perfect amount
@@AquatikGuru perfect, thank you!
How long before you have to change them for new
I personally don’t change them at all. I just add more as needed
Can you use these in a molly/ shrimp aquarium? My ph is right at 8 and am trying to get down to a more comfortable ph for them
Yes you can. Just make sure to add only a little at a time. For example 1 xl leaf for a month or so. Check ph, add another. Due to the leaves breaking down, some minerals and parameters will change. You just wanna make that transition smooth
I have some African dwarf frogs too with my fighter. Would these leaves affect the frogs?
They shouldn’t. Most likely they’ll benefit from it through nutrition and hides too
@@AquatikGuruthank you :)
Is it ok to put it on planted aquarium? Will this not affect the growth of the plants?
If you do it lightly yes. Otherwise if you’d like to go more brown water tint with more leaves. You’ll need to add co2 to compensate for lost growth. And most likely crank up the lighting
Are these good for jack dempseys and blood parrots?
In my personal opinion. They are good for ALL fish. Whether they eat them or not
@AquatikGuru thank you! I think I will be trying these out now!
Can i put these leaves for molly fish?
Absolutely!! The babies love to hide under them and eat them too
We have tons of that leaves in our environment...for Betta i add it but for flowerhorn still wanna try but not yet because I've mutated my flowerhorn to goldenbase with that leaves..can i add it again to my goldenbase flowerhorn?
The only thing about doing that is flowerhorns typically thrive in harder ph. Leaves can lower that ph and although it may not harm the flowerhorn, it could definitely prevent them from breeding. Kinda like when your significant other wants a date night and some bedroom time but y’all watch a boring movie and ruin the mood.
@@AquatikGuru i only have one male flowerhorn still not adult, but always looking for a fight..goldenbase flowerhorn,,i thought this leaves can give extra colour to him, or protection such as good vitamin that contained in it..or just add the leaves extract drops in my tank
Ohhh I get what your saying. Lol sorry I read it wrong. To be completely honest I’m not sure that it would help change his color. Colors in my experience with flowerhorns was just genetic
@@AquatikGuru yup, you can watch on goldenbase flowerhorn channel that they can mutate with the helps of catappa...but for health and more colourful, i need more experience from all of you guys that done it
Do you remove your carbon from your filter for this?
I always remove carbon from all my tanks.
Do you buy almond leaves?
No
If we don't have this leaf then which leaf we can use ..and which time we remove the leaf
There are many leaves to use such as oak leaves, guava leaves, magnolia leaves, mango leaves, Persian walnut leaves, jackfruit leaves, loquat leaves, banana leaves and many more.
As far as when to remove, that depends. If you have live plants, the leaves breaking down can help them grow as the breakdown creates soil. If you would like to remove them, wait til the stems the only thing left and remove. Me personally, I leave them in indefinitely to give the aquarium a much more natural feel and appearance.
@@AquatikGuru how I get to Kno which leaves use for my guppy and how to use and which time I have to remove leaves
You can safely use any of them I named above. I have other videos explaining how to prepare them and where to get them from. As I said me personally, I leave them in the tank and never remove them. But if you’d like to remove them, wait until the leaf part is gone and remove the stem portion that’s left behind after the other leafy part disintegrates
@@AquatikGuru can you say which leaves which benefits..
They all benefit. When they break down, they release waste that good bacterias can use to thrive which creates a stronger balance in your aquarium. In the end this leads to easier fish care because then the fish live healthier lives like in the wild.
100 leaves :17.99$
Expensive 🤮
I will give 10 pieces for free to your subscribers Bro. How can I contact you?