Adding new fish
I add fish to my tank differently then anybody else I know. I usually have pretty good luck too.
I put the fish into my cleaning bucket with the petstore water. They all go into the bucket. I then use a piece of airline tubing to siphon a small amount of water out of the tank into the bucket. Done slowly, I acclimate the fish over several hours in a nice, gradual way. After sometimes as much as 4-5 hours, I net the fish out of the bucket, and dump them into the tank.
I put the fish into my cleaning bucket with the petstore water. They all go into the bucket. I then use a piece of airline tubing to siphon a small amount of water out of the tank into the bucket. Done slowly, I acclimate the fish over several hours in a nice, gradual way. After sometimes as much as 4-5 hours, I net the fish out of the bucket, and dump them into the tank.
Tags: aquaria
posted by Mike @ 10:48 PM
2 Comments:
That seems like a ton more work than floating the bag for a while..
Actually, I have the stuff laying around already anyhow. It takes all of 2 minutes to set up.
I have yet to loose a fish within months of adding them to my tank doing it this way. I have added fish 10-15 times over the last oh, maybe 5 years with this method.
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