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Setting Up A New Aquarium |
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Written by Leon Huang
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Saturday, 25 June 2005 |
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Acclimatizing your new fishes
Finally, it's time for you to go out and buy your fishes. You must be
all excited and wants to get as many fishes you can. Do not do that!
Limit the number of your first batch of fishes by the amount of waste
they would produce. Let's say you cycled your tank with 3 small fishes,
you cannot expect the system to be able to suddenly support the wastes
of 6 large fishes. You have to do introduce your fishes in gradual
amounts.
Get the pet
shop people to help you select healthy ones. While at the shop, make
sure you've already gotten everything you need. Things like food,
aquarium salt(if keeping brackish water fishes), net, water pump, and a
bottle of anti-chlorine-and-chloramine water conditioner.
"Float the packet of your new babies for about 15 minutes..."
Once you reached home, float the packet of your new babies in your tank
water. This is to acclimatize your fishes to the new water temperature.
Float for about 15 minutes, then open up the packet, and pour some of
your tank water into it. This is to acclimatize your fishes to the new
water parameters. Wait for another 15 minutes, or more, if your fishes
are sensitive species. And finally, use a net to catch your fishes into
your fish tank!
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