Climatising Fish?

[Nathen]

Sorry i havent been on in a while and i just remembered, can anyone let me know how to climatise guppies, endlers, mollys and platy to cold water. It has been done but i cant find anything about it on the net but ive seen them in my LFS in cold water and were still breeding and had still very bright colours thanks

 

[Animal Lover 2000]

i think you keep them in the bag for a bout half hour and every 10 mins put in some of the tank water and after the time is up you will want to scoop them out with a net because you could risk introducing petstore diseses

 

[TheShrimpGirl]

Gradually turn down the thermostat on your tank heater. Acouple degrees every week or so until it gets to your regular room temperature.

My guppies do just fine either heated or coldwater tanks.

 

[raptorrex]

i think you keep them in the bag for a bout half hour and every 10 mins put in some of the tank water and after the time is up you will want to scoop them out with a net because you could risk introducing petstore diseses

well i got a great idea from an old member here.

put a small puncture in the side of the bag.
this allows tank water and bag water to mix, but slowly.
then tip the fish in after about and hour or so.

I'm afraid using a net will not avoid transferring, possible, LFS diseases to your tank.
only a quarantine tank can do that!

 

[fluttermoth]

^ Why have I never thought or heard of that; that's genius!

Animal Lover 2000; you don't dry your fish off with a towel after netting them, do you?

So LFS water and any diseases would be introduced into the tank with the fish anyway. As Raptorrex says, a QT is the only way to avoid that particular problem.

Go with ShrimpGirl's method; that's the right way to acclimatise fish to different temperatures

 

[raptorrex]

^ Why have I never thought or heard of that; that's genius!

I'll try to find the thread.
But I'm sure it was a Mod or well respected member about 4 years ago that mentioned it.

and it is pure genius.
we talked around various more technical way of doing the same thing.
but still came back to the bag and hole solution.

one option, i liked, was to transfer the LFS water and stock to a container that had a much larger volume.
punch a hole in the bottom.
and as the water mixed the container sank.
leaving the fish to swim free.

 

[fish48]

These fish are not cold water fish although they can adaped to lower temps it is best not to let them go below 66f- 18c when kept long term below this they will start to suffer and die . best temp is between 74f-74f

 

[Animal Lover 2000]

no flutter moth i do not dry them with atowel and i havent had disease for o veer 1 year execpt for my cory whpos getti ng better every day

 

[fluttermoth]

no flutter moth i do not dry them with atowel and i havent had disease for o veer 1 year execpt for my cory whpos getti ng better every day

lol, no, of course you don't! It does help explain why it's really un-necessary to worry too much about getting LFS water in your tank though

 

[raptorrex]

its well worth doing a forum search for "fish Acclimatisation".

I've just done one, as i said i would.

there is tonnes and tonnes of info, and very interesting it is too.

aint got to the post i was talking about yet.
coz i got carried away reading 8 year old posts.
lol.

good posts from Bignose in there Fluttermouth.
well worth a look.

 

[PrairieSunflower]

I've only just heard about the puncture the bag thing too.