Adaptation of fish in a new aquarium

When you populate your aquarium with the first fishor when you want to admit a newcomer to an already populated aquarium, you must certainly take care of the safe adaptation of the fish to new conditions. How to do it correctly?

Catching fish from the previous aquarium, itstransportation and settling in a new aquarium - all this is a tremendous stress for any, even the most unpretentious, fish. A sharp change in the parameters of temperature, rigidity, salinity and acidity of water in the "old" and "new" aquariums can provoke a fish disease or even cause it to die. Therefore, the fish need a gradual acclimatization.

The most correct and correct way of settlingfish in a new aquarium is the use of a quarantine aquarium. Quarantine is a separate aquarium in which new fish should be kept for about one month. This is necessary in order to find out whether new fish are healthy. As a rule, the incubation period of diseases in aquarium fish does not exceed one month.

To fish as calmly as possibletransplant from one aquarium to another, you can not immediately plant it in a new aquarium. It is better to pre-place it in an opaque container with water from a previous aquarium. This container should be lowered into the aquarium in order for the water temperature to level off. The capacity with the fish can be tilted slightly so that it is easier for the fish to swim out of it into the "big" water.

In a quarantine aquarium, plants are not placed,soil, snags, because the water in it must be changed frequently. It is best if the water in the quarantine aquarium exactly corresponds to the one in which the fish lived before. Gradually, the water in the quarantine aquarium is replaced with what will be in the new aquarium.

The water in the quarantine aquarium must be aeratedround the clock, fish are fed only live food. At the end of the quarantine period, fish should be inspected and if everything is all right, you can let the fish out into a permanent aquarium.