Acclimating Your Fish

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Follow our simple steps that we recommend should be taken to properly acclimate your order.

Fish are about 80% water 

Water has an enormous effect (good or bad) on all fish. 

Fish are quite resilient 

Most fish can tolerate gradual changes, and can adapt to a variety of living conditions - good or bad. 

Not all the water is created equal

Shock can kill

“PH Shock” and “Temperature Shock” are the primary killers of most new arrivals. If new fish are not acclimated properly the ultimate effects of shock will cause disease and unexplained deaths. 

Shock is preventable

There are simple steps that should be taken to acclimate (adjust) new fish to their environment. Remember an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. 

THESE STEPS ARE:

#1- Float all new arrivals in the bag they were shipped in in your tank for 15 to 20 minutes. This helps the water in the sealed bags slowly equalize in temperature so that he water can adjust to the surrounding aquarium water.

#2- After 15 to 20 minutes, open the bag and pour everything in the bag into a container. After that, add water from the tank into the container. We recommend a 50%/50% mix. 

#3- Wait 15 minutes- repeat step #2, by adding another 50% of tank water to the container. By mixing “tank water” into the “bag water” you help your fish acclimate (adjust) to their new environment.

#4- Finally, wait another 15 minutes and then release the fish out of the bag into the tank. Discard the shipping water down the drain.