HARDCORE Blackwater Aquarium Setup - TOP 5 Botanicals for Blackwater Aquascape

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My hardcore blackwater biotype Aquarium setup. How to prepare dried botanicals and set up a blackwater aquascape. Just sharing what works for me and I hope it might help you with your first Blackwater aquarium setup.
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@JHAquatics 4 жыл бұрын

My whole Series on my Blackwater aquariums Check it out! kzfaq.info/get/bejne/m66RnbGVmM2YnZc.html

@kdr1048 4 жыл бұрын

Nothing beats a Blackwater Aquarium, awesome!

@FatherFish 4 жыл бұрын

excellent use of various dried bots. I have great results with aponogetons in my blackwater aq.

@user-eg8ml5jx7l 4 жыл бұрын

I was boiling my botanicals and my husband came into my fish room to let me know my “witch tea” was ready. Lol

@voluntaryismistheanswer 3 жыл бұрын

You should let him know if you were a real witch you wouldn't be boiling the nature out of it lol

@MoreChannelNoise 4 жыл бұрын

I just use rooibos tea bag (redwood tree tea) and 2 alder cones. The alder cones I collect locally and roibos tea bags I buy at the supermarket, and are cheap.

@PunchiePaints 4 жыл бұрын

I so love blackwater tanks!

@DaniKenAquatics 4 жыл бұрын

Wow what a gorgeous tank I'm going to have to do a Blackwater Now lol thanks

@markday5797 Жыл бұрын

Man your aquariums rock I have two blackwater tanks. Nothing better IMHO.

@ThaStevoShow 4 жыл бұрын

Im definitely going to add a black water aquarium to my collection thanks for the information

@shesellsfish 4 жыл бұрын

I got a black water box of botanicals from My Aquarium Box a few months ago. Absolutely loved it. Your tank is looking great. Looking forward to new videos in the New Year. 👍💕👍

@JHAquatics 4 жыл бұрын

Their box is different the my starter kit. I feel my assortment is from experience and what works for me for shrimp and blackwater fish.

@WollongongSkyWatch 4 жыл бұрын

There's no need to sterilise all the natural goodness out of the dry goods. I find this the most weird practice of all.

@aidangarrity7620 4 жыл бұрын

Could not agree more! Bacteria from nature is healthy for aquariums

@ashlynwanderer2107 3 жыл бұрын

not concerned about parasites, harmful fungi/bacteria, etc...?

@WollongongSkyWatch 3 жыл бұрын

@@ashlynwanderer2107 I haven't found anything to date. Nothing has died. I don't believe there is anything such as you describe that would effect marine / tropical water life.

@ashlynwanderer2107 3 жыл бұрын

@@WollongongSkyWatch i guess too vastly different of an environment for anything to migrate and cause problems then? thanks for the tip! but what about stuff collected from other aquatic enviroments??

@WollongongSkyWatch 3 жыл бұрын

@@ashlynwanderer2107 probably best to do your own studies. I wouldn't put a large piece of local lake driftwood in my tropical tank, but I have put all assorted untreated, dead gum leaves, gumnuts, etc, including some type of fungus that I found on my tree. Long bright red strands that look amazing! Just add things slowly and observe.

@LRBaquatics 4 жыл бұрын

Beautiful tank!

@JHAquatics 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you Man!! Did you see the keys? :-) Burlington or bust!!

@LRBaquatics 4 жыл бұрын

@@JHAquatics The keys, islands? Is Burlington your town? If so what the closest airport I will look at tickets ;) We could go on a guppy expedition!

@vanevarnel7131 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks great vid

@ScottMclaughlinJ 4 жыл бұрын

very nice i may try this great video

@ntp5257 4 жыл бұрын

You can find some alder species native to N. America too!

@maxiculture 4 жыл бұрын

I'm afraid the casuarina is not a conifer, they are flowering plants in a family of their own and may be related to the alders of the N hemisphere.

@SusanforSLCAquatics 4 жыл бұрын

Nice tank and botanicals

@JHAquatics 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you Susan :-)

@cheesygamer0151 2 жыл бұрын

I love black water, I have a 15 gal fluval flex black water. I did basically the same thing but I also added some Anubis and duckweed

@voluntaryismistheanswer 3 жыл бұрын

I went hardcore with coco nuggets, and I'm still trying to get it light enough to see the plants 😄. Been lovely tannic tea for topping up others, though. I think today might be the day!

@terapace6523 2 жыл бұрын

I have shrimp and mystery snails. Can the mystery snails do ok in the blackwater aquariums?

@shafromva 4 жыл бұрын

Any luck spawning those tetras? I’ve got some Rasboras I want to spawn but there’s almost no information on them. They get mixed in with Emerald Eye Rasboras as a bycatch and aren’t a Rasbora you can find at a store. Thinking I’ll need to drop the pH if I want to spawn them.

@jimanast3593 2 жыл бұрын

What do U do w the boiled water? It is sterilized, w tannins, dead bacteria etc, which is food got invertebrates & catfish. So it's blackwater extract, which CAN be used as such. Am I right?

@morganofsharick2415 4 жыл бұрын

I’m sorry if this question is answered somewhere already, but I’ve been planning to eventually do a black water nano tank and I’ve been curious: how do you get the water to stay amber without the filter filtering out all the tannins? I plan on using some kind of a sponge filter for the nano tank. I’d like it to stay relatively dark, wouldn’t a filter try to get rid of the tannins?

@voluntaryismistheanswer 3 жыл бұрын

My hob filter keeps the tannins nicely, don't know why it wouldn't

@voluntaryismistheanswer 3 жыл бұрын

@Amber Richardson people put charcoal in aquariums- people that know what they are doing?!