| Acclimating fish in your newly set up tropical fish | | | | way to do it. What you have to do is to take out |
| tank is an important and at times, a difficult job. | | | | about one fourth of water from the container, in |
| But here I will give you three most effective | | | | which fish presently are, and replace that amount |
| ways to acclimate your fish. | | | | with the water from the aquarium. You have to |
| 1. Using a Drip | | | | do it after every 10 minutes till next two hours. |
| To carry out this kind of acclimatization, you need | | | | Next step will be to use a net and take them out |
| to have a bucket, some veggie trimmers and a | | | | of container and into the tropical fish tank. |
| suction pump. You also need a strong and a long | | | | 3. Using a bucket |
| air pump tubing that reaches out to the bucket | | | | This method is also very similar to the previous |
| from tropical fish tank. Start by placing one end | | | | one. The only difference is that instead of placing |
| of the tubing into veggie clipper and the put the | | | | the fish container in the aquarium and getting fish |
| clipper in the aquarium. Now take the suction cup | | | | acclimatized, you'll have to use the bucket. You |
| and put the other end into the bag inside the | | | | just have to open the bag and take out some |
| bucket. If you want to control the drip arte then | | | | water, about one fourth, and replace it with water |
| you can also use C-clamps. If you have to | | | | in the bucket. There won't be any need to put |
| perform this kind of acclimatization for freshwater | | | | the whole container or the bag inside the |
| tropical fish then you need to do it for at least an | | | | aquarium. You will be using the aquarium's water in |
| hour, before putting the fish in your aquarium. | | | | the bucket to put your fish in, for getting them |
| 2. Using a floating bag | | | | used to that water. Afterwards, just transfer the |
| It is the most common and easy approach for | | | | fish to aquarium directly. |
| acclimating your fish. This is, also, a very easy | | | | |