Indian Almond Leaf Catappa Leaf Benefits to Aquariums

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 - https://bettabotanicals.com/

How to Prepare Almond Leaves for Aquariums -    • Preparing Indian Almond Leaves for aquarium