Fish Stores Water

[saboy]

This is based around using hard london tap water


Is it right that fish stores will use the same tap water that I use in my area for most fish ?

the fish they wouldnt use tap water would be discus , rays , etc the more rarer fish


I could just ask what water they are in too see if they fine for my water

Do the fish shops do the acclimisation to their tap water from the importers ? say if they got rams that live in a acidic ph to hard london water ? or would they put these fish in with discus that use ro water ?

also on the subject, can a fish be changed from a lower ph , and lower hardness, be acclimised to high more alkaline water and that Is much harder ? Succesfully and still live and breed ?

 

[Fishkeeper2004]

I know not all LFS have this, but I remember asking at East Bridgeford and they use RO water for all their tanks, not just the Marines..

 

[SamUK]

some of your questions have been answered in my thread here.


http/www.fishforums.net/index.php?showtopic=149271

 

[saboy]

I found this while searching on the net,

This was a guy who sells angelfish, his water is 8.4 and says customers water can be around 7 , so this is what he tell them to do

. Place fish with shipping water in a container.
2. Start a drip from an airline with a knot tied into it. Start with a drop
per second. Do this from the aquarium the fish will go into.
3. Theory goes, change the pH only .1 per hour, so in your example that
would take 10 hours. I think this is excessive but would not take less than
5 hours for such a change.
4. Every once in a while remove some water from the container to keep the
level about the same thus changing the water over to the new tank's
chemistry.
5. When ready to add the fish, net them and put them in the tank. Do not add
the shipping water to the tank for it may contain drugs or in the least be
very contaminated.


The ammount of tank water you add to the fish tub/bag and the time you do it depends on how much of a difference in ph there is.

 

[SamUK]

yea ive heard of that drip method before.

all too complicated for me so when im moving fish eg. i jus moved a syno cat from my malawi tank to my oscar tank.

i knew there would be a big difference in ph so i put him in a bowl and jus added a lil water myself every 10-15 mins.

did that for about an hour and a half.

 

[saboy]

Yea, I plan to do this If I ever buy wild fish, or get fish mailed from trimar(cornwall), or get flyer cichlids from dany

 

[SamUK]

yea i jus try to do it with anything thats going into different water or if i kno its had a rough ride like my BGK who i picked up right from the delivery truck at my lfs.

 

[saboy]

yea, what you did with ure BGK was less stressfull, as he didnt have to move tanks, eg, from the bag to the lfs tank, then to a bag, then to ure tank,

 

[SamUK]

didnt think of that. good point



shame im not getting my fish from there anymore.

 

[saboy]

So has anyone else have any input ?