Aquarium Botanicals for Beginners

Aquarium Botanicals for Beginners is a small selection of carefully selected aquarium botanicals we know you will love and have a successful first experience using in your botanical method aquariums or bioactive enclosures. These aquatic botanicals break down slowly, provide medium levels of tannins, and help to begin building your aquatic ecosystem. As always, we recommend adding all botanical materials slowly to the aquarium, utilizing 2-3 prepared leaves or seed pods per 5 gallons, once per week, until the desired look is achieved.

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A beginner friendly mix of dried aquarium botanicals which contain a mix of durability and tint producing properties for botanical method, blackwater, and biotope aquariums at Betta Botanicals.

#TanninBae Beginner Botanical Variety Pack
$17.00
$17.00
A compostable pouch of maroon tea bags containing botanicals to retint blackwater, biotope and botanical method aquariums at Betta Botanicals.

Betta Tea™ - Blackwater Botanical Tea Bags
$24.00
$24.00
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Pile of black and dark brown ribbed alder cones for aquariums by Betta Botanicals.

Alder Cones
from $8.00
from $8.00
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Pile of brown and tan texas live oak leaf litter for aquariums and bioactive enclosures by Betta Botanicals.

Texas Live Oak Leaf Litter
from $8.00
from $8.00
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Pile of Oak Twigs by Betta Botanicals, for betta fish tanks, blackwater aquariums, botanical style aquariums.

Shingle Live Oak Twigs | Quercus imbricaria
from $8.00
from $8.00
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Pile of brown, tan, and round acorn tops for aquariums and terrariums by Betta Botanicals.

Acorn Tops
$8.00
$8.00
brown fern frond leaf litter by Betta Botanicals, aquarium botanicals for blackwater and biotope aquariums.

Fern Fronds
$8.00
$8.00
Pile of brown, tan, and amber shingles live oak leaf litter and twigs for aquariums and terrariums by Betta Botanicals.

Shingles Live Oak Leaf Litter | Quercus imbricaria
from $7.00
from $7.00
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Pile of tan, amber, and brown dried magnolia leaf litter for aquariums and terrariums by Betta Botanicals.

Southern Magnolia Leaf Litter
$10.00
$10.00
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Honeysuckle twigs from Betta Botanicals with their light brown and grey color with delicate branching network for blackwater betta fish aquariums.

Bush Honeysuckle Twigs
$8.00
$8.00
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Dark brown and black hazelnut twigs from Betta Botanicals showcasing their branching and intricate structure for blackwater betta fish tanks.

Hazelnut Twigs
$8.00
$8.00
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A pile of brown willow oak leaves for aquariums and vivariums at Betta Botanicals.

Willow Live Oak Leaves
from $8.00
from $8.00
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Ecosystem aquarium kit by Betta Botanicals, for botanical style aquariums, betta fish tanks, betta biotopes.

20 Gallon Ecosystem Kit
$175.00
$175.00
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Ecosystem aquarium kit by Betta Botanicals, for botanical style aquariums, betta fish tanks, betta biotopes.

10 Gallon Ecosystem Kit
$115.00
$115.00

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Two dried Nipa palm husks with a smooth, dark brown surface, ideal for blackwater aquariums and bioactive enclosures from Betta Botanicals.

Nipa Palm Pod | Nypa fruticans
$6.00
$6.00

Build Your Ecosystem

Aquarium botanicals have varying levels of durability, which is predictive of the leafs waxy coating and the seed pods woody composition. All types are equally important to the botanical aquarium as they build different layers of the ecosystem.