How to Acclimate New Fish & Invertebrates | DrsFosterSmith.com

[bobcheese427]

Another method is to float the bag, with the fish in it, in your aqaurium. Then after 20 minutes, add some water from the aquarium into the bag to equalise the pH, then after 5 minutes, net the fish out and add it to your tank, with the light off, and wait around 3-4 hours before switching it on

[sergioatsky]

it its VERY important to wait 4 hours to turn the lights again? or can be less time?

[InfoDoradon]

Dripping into a bucket is considered to be "the" method but there are several fundamental issues: 1) Temperature might not equalize if the surrounding temperature is very different to that of the aquarium, 2) water used to transport the new inhabitants might not be enough to fully cover them once they are poured into the bucket, and 3) you better watch the bucket when it gets full. The conclusion is that it is hard to control and is a high stress procedure.

[FishFrenzy101]

How do you add invertebrates to the tank without letting them touch the air and without adding water from the bucket?

[TWhite2345]

How much is a acclimation kit

[Squidwardedits]

The problem with my tank is that the water evaporates, leaving the salt behind. Thus, the salt level increases. I have very delicate species. Whenever I do a water change, I have to take everything out and acclimate them all over again. Anything I can do about this? Because it's a lot of work.

[mtsn]

@Squidwardedits you must replace the evaporated water with freshwater, gradually. If you are making a water change, then you're removing some salt too, and this is when you need to add new prepared water with the same salinity and parameters of your tank. You don't need to reacclimate all your fish every time you do a water change...

[whitetiger123100]

@Squidwardedits , sorry, you have probably figured this out by now, but whenever you see salt left behind by evaporation you fill the aquarium up to the point of evaporation with dechlorinated fresh water in a process called topping off.

[BoraxoftheAmerica]

And where can we buy bucket for aquarium use only.

[drsfostersmith]

@BoraxoftheAmerica I would think you can find a bucket anywhere, really. In our videos we use the buckets left over from salt for different tanks around the building.

[Tempdoom]

@BoraxoftheAmerica any bucket, just dont use the bucket for anyting else.

[roflasians]

why is the bag where the fish is in black? does it help lower stress?

[drsfostersmith]

@roflasians Yes it is to lower stress.

[DiscusKev]

Very informative step by step guide video. I too believe that the water within that bucket should not be placed into the fish tank since the water quality is stagnant (fish poop causes a rise in ammonia level) and that there could be nasties in there (better safe than sorry), therefore using a net to catch the fish and placing them into the tank is the best procedure.

[Link4681]

What's the fish at 0:23?

[lovetodraw5]

@Link4681 its a purple firefish, there an amazing fish

[TheLiddleFishKeeper]

@lovetodraw5 actually a purple firefish looks different from this one. this is a helfrichi firefish

[OCtrackiepac]

what makes it "okay" is that when you drip acclimate and your taking out the water, your taking out the store water so when places the fish into the tank, most of the water in the bucket is your water

[TheNuScience]

Everything is right except for the end they say it's ok to put water from the bag into your tank. That's a huge mistake if you are risking hundred dollar fish that can expose them to new diseases, and bacteria.

[AwesomeAssassin1000]

@TheNuScience yeah but he doubles the amount of water in the bucket twice so the water in the bucket is pritty much 100% his tank water

[GermanNinja12]

Is this only necessary for salt water fish?

[shadowmaster995]

it works best with sw fish

[wndebu]

@GermanNinja12 Not true. This method is great for freshwater fish like Discus, Scaleless fish, and inverts. Freshwater PH has a greater range than Salt Water. So I would say this is even more important in Freshwater than Salt. SInce Salt Water is generally hard and Alkanline while Freshwater can be anywhere from Soft/Hard to Acidic/Alk.