"NetMax" wrote in message
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If I'm buying a $100 fish, I show up with a styrofoam box. Inside the
box they put 1 bag of water with the fish, and 3 or 4 bags of only water.
The extra water bags helps keep the temperature uniform while travelling,
and I use it to fill a small aquarium about 50%. This quarantine
aquarium has a small submerged filter, and a small submerged heater (this
allows me to have the water level as low as I like, which often happens
when I'm using partial LFS water to acclimate. Be sure to water test the
LFS water when you get home (from the bag with no fish, as the fish bag
will be skewed due to the CO2 and ammonia released). For 2-3 days, I try
to do nothing, then over the next few days, I start adding my tank/source
water. Your % of tank/source water depends on your tank conditions and
where you want to eventually end up. Laborious.. yes, and it needs the
patience of a saint, but it is very successful. I hope this gives you
some ideas.

Yes it does, thanks! Now all I have to do is work out whether I'm enough
of a saint to actually to this... :-)

Cheers,

Michi.

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