Shipped Bass~Proper Acclimation?
- Thread starter COOL MBU
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Depends how stress the fish looks in the bag for me. I usually.....just get a tub or bucket...depends on fish size. And then pour the fish into the bucket w/ its bag water. Then i drain water from the tank into the bucket.....then wait 5-10 minutes and add some more tank water. After 15-20 min i put him in the tank.
Its similar to a drop and plop in a way....but just a little easier on the fish.
Its similar to a drop and plop in a way....but just a little easier on the fish.
from ichiban huh?
Yep! Not Cheap..I know,but this quality is hard to come by these days...
that article is awesome.. lol who would've thought that the old ways of plopping a goldfish won from the local fair into a 5 gallon could actually be considered safer for the fish than a lengthy acclimation procedure. I'm definitely gonna try this technique on the fish I'm ordering from rapps next week. thank you! and good luck with the bass OP!
I just got a 5" Mono shipped to me from oscarfishguy Tuesday. When I got him I let the bag sit in my tank for about 10 minutes to attempt to acclimate him to any water temperature difference. Then I started to undue the bag to release him and as someone else stated earlier in this thread he started to thrash a bit from all the moving from getting the tight rubber bands off. It was causing too many problems so instead of messing with the multiple rubber bands I held the bag right below the bands and just cut the entire top of the bag to open it without the constant moving around. Then I netted him out of the bag and put him into my tank which had a FM and Red O in it. (I never put bag water in my tank because I'm way to paranoid to mix other peoples water in my tank)
No problems what so ever. He's doing great and didn't even hide at all when initially put into the tank. My FM puffed up and didn't look stoked to see him but he was all show.
No problems what so ever. He's doing great and didn't even hide at all when initially put into the tank. My FM puffed up and didn't look stoked to see him but he was all show.
