Sea Mango Pods These pods offer both visual appeal and functional benefits, enhancing the habitat for your aquatic and terrestrial pets. With their distinctive shape and texture, sea mango seed pods serve as a perfect decorative element while also promoting a healthier and more natural environment for your pets.
For Aquariums:
•Natural Aesthetic: Sea Mango seed pods add a rustic, tropical touch to aquariums, contributing to the overall natural look of your setup.
•Water Quality Improvement: These pods release tannins into the water, which helps to lower the pH, soften the water, and stabilize water conditions, benefiting fish and other aquatic creatures.
•Stress Reduction: The seed pods create hiding spots for fish, shrimp, and other small aquatic life, providing them with secure areas to retreat, which helps reduce stress.
•Safe and Non-Toxic: When properly sanitized, Sea Mango seed pods are non-toxic and safe for all aquatic life.
For Terrariums and Vivariums:
•Decorative Value: Sea Mango seed pods enhance the visual appeal of terrariums and vivariums, adding a tropical and natural feel.
•Enrichment: The texture and shape of these pods encourage climbing, exploring, and hiding behaviors, which promote the natural instincts of reptiles, amphibians, and small animals.
•Humidity Control: Sea Mango seed pods retain moisture, helping to maintain the humidity levels required by moisture-loving species such as frogs, geckos, and lizards.
•Natural Shelter: The pods offer a variety of hiding and resting spots, helping to reduce stress and create a more secure environment for pets.
•Eco-Friendly: Sea Mango seed pods are biodegradable and a sustainable option for enhancing your habitat in an environmentally responsible way.
SIZE: They vary in size, yet average around 10-15cm in diameter. These pods will leach some tannins into the water over the long term.
PREPARATION: You need to gently Boil Sea Mango Pods for at least an hour in boiling water (sometimes a bit more) to really saturate them, because they do float when first immersed. also try and squeeze the excess air out so they sink.
ORIGIN: Originally a native too SE Asia however we source ours from Sri Lanka
All our Australian Botanicals are pest and pollution free and are organically sourced.
NOTE: These are a natural product, and display variation in colour, size, and texture. Each pod is unique! The photo serves as a reasonable representation of what to expect.
All of our aquatic botanicals are intended for ornamental aquarium or terrarium use only. Please use common sense and take the time to boil or soak all botanicals prior to using them, to reduce the possibility of problems. All our botanicals have been tried and tested, in saying that though go slow when introducing any botanicals into your systems, so you can judge the effect they have on your fishes and plants. They are not intended for human consumption. DO NOT INGEST!
NOT INTENDED FOR HUMAN CONSUMPTION
