We always net fish and toss water. Lowers contamination! We do adjust
water by mixing before moving the fish and tossing the water. Our
aquaria sure don't need disease water from a pet store.

Jim

~ jan JJsPond.us wrote:
On 16 May 2005 11:18:56 -0700, "scs0" wrote:


It's a commonly accepted rule that fish need to slowly adjust to
changes in water temperature and this is one of the reasons why bagged
fish are supposed to float for a while before being introduced into a
new body of water. I'm starting to think that this temperature
adjustment rule is a whole lot of bunk. One of the things I've noticed
about pondkeeping is that different areas of a pond can have radically
different temperatures, and that goes double for ponds without any
circulation. snip


Not bunk. Fish that are bagged are under a lot of stress, from being
bagged, so you want to remove as many stresses as you physically can, like
letting the "unopened" bag acclimate to the temperature of the quarantine
tank. I go one step further and match my Q-tank's pH to the sellers, and if
the fish has been in the bag long enough to have drop the pH way down, I
lower the pH to 7.0.

If a fish has been in a bag longer than 30 minutes, leave the bag closed
and do not add pond water to the bag. Get the temperatures and pH numbers
similar and lift the fish out of the bag without putting the bag water into
the pond. ~ jan


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