- 1). Bring your fish home immediately after purchasing it. Make sure your home tank is prepared for the new member before arriving. If you wait longer than necessary, the level of ammonia in the bag will increase, and your fish’s chances of survival will drop.
- 2). Remove 25 percent of the water that the fish store provided in the bag. Replace that with the same amount from the fish tank. This will start introducing your new fish to a foreign set of waters slowly, so its body can adjust.
- 3). Lay the bag in the water gently, so it floats on the surface. Close the hood on the aquarium so the bag will become the same temperature as the aquarium water. This will help the fish get a sense of its surroundings and their average temperature.
- 4). Add a measuring cup’s worth of aquarium water to the bag every 10 minutes. This will slowly fill the bag to capacity, while introducing more and more of the foreign water into the fish’s system.
- 5). Open the bag and gently let the fish slip out of the bag and into the aquarium, once you have added the maximum amount of water into the plastic bag. Your fish should now be successfully acclimated to its new home.
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