AquaZen Botanical Zen Pack
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AquaZen Botanical Zen Pack
Tannins, textures, and tranquility—AquaZen style.
Introducing the first official botanical release from our AquaZen line—crafted to bring serene beauty and natural balance to your aquarium, paludarium, or terrarium. The AquaZen Botanical Zen Pack is a thoughtfully curated trio of all-natural botanicals that provide more than just visual appeal: each piece enriches your ecosystem with beneficial tannins, biofilm-promoting surfaces, and natural shelter that encourages thriving aquatic life.
🌿 What’s Inside:
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5 Medium Catappa Leaves – Slowly release tannins and humic substances that support immune health, reduce minor fungal concerns, and encourage natural behaviors. Great for biofilm development—a key food source for shrimp and fry.
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2 Catappa Bark Pieces – Dense and long-lasting, these bark segments leach beneficial compounds into the water and offer natural hiding spaces.
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8 Casuarina Pine Pods (Casuarina equisetifolia) – A pinecone-style botanical that adds visual texture and durable structure. Releases mild antibacterial and antifungal tannins, creates biofilm-rich surfaces, and offers long-term visual interest. These pods release fewer tannins than alder cones, making them perfect for small aquariums or shrimp tanks.
🧭 How to Use in a 10-Gallon Shrimp Aquarium:
To avoid over-conditioning the water in a small system, we recommend starting with half the pack:
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2–3 Catappa Leaves
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1 Catappa Bark Piece
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3–4 Casuarina Pine Pods
This offers natural grazing grounds, mild pH buffering, and gentle tannin release—ideal for shrimp, snails, nano fish, and breeding tanks.
Maintenance Tips:
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Replace leaves every 2–3 weeks as they break down
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Bark and pods can remain for several months
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Always rinse and briefly boil botanicals before use
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Monitor pH and clarity when adding new botanicals
🌊 Ideal For:
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Freshwater Aquariums (Blackwater or Softwater)
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Shrimp & Snail Tanks
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Paludariums & Semi-Aquatic Setups
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Naturalistic Terrarium Displays
💡 Pro Tips:
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Layer botanicals beneath driftwood or among plants for a natural look
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Use sparingly in small tanks; botanicals are powerful in even low amounts
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Encourage microfauna and biofilm to grow as part of a healthy food web
Natural beauty. Balanced ecosystems. One Zen Pack.
The first of many in our AquaZen botanical line—designed to support your aquascape and its inhabitants, naturally.
For the safety of our animals, we only ship live fish, crabs, and select other inverts exclusively via UPS 1 Day Air. If your order contains this item, you will only see UPS 1 Day Air as a shipping option during checkout. If other items are in your cart that can ship with 2 day or standard shipping options the only shipping method you can still select is UPS 1 Day Air.
UPS 1 Day is a description of the duration of time a shipment will spend in transit once it has been shipped. This does not guarantee the package will be shipped the same or next day from which the order was placed.
Shipping Schedule for this service
Current Handling Time:
1-9 business days
Here at Aquatic Arts, we consider the welfare of the live animals we are shipping to be of the foremost importance. This process is much more involved than simply creating a shipping label and affixing it to a box. Depending on the order, it takes from 4 to 7 people to complete this process properly. We check the weather conditions here where they fly out of the Indianapolis UPS facility and the destination for each shipment. We start early each morning and go through a multi-step process to have the day's shipments prepared in time for the UPS pickup. The volume of orders in our system also affects the processing time. Therefore our stated handling time is 1-9 business days.
Shipping Rate
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