Netting fish from a bag
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that's how I see it. I still dump most of the water to minimize the potential foothold of pathogens. Do you think giving the fish a quick salt bath would help?
Filleting one to inspect for parasites is super effective, but a little messy. It's about risk management. A salt bath might help, but it comes with it's own set of risks/consequences. Buying from a trusted source, quarantine, monitor. This has worked for me. Some people are fine dropping fish straight in--if that works for them, great, but it wouldn't be my first choice.
I'd rather quarantine and observe than do ANY medicating...and don't medicate unless I know what I'm treating.
I'd rather quarantine and observe than do ANY medicating...and don't medicate unless I know what I'm treating.
maybe i do it the wrong way I just float the bag for 15min or more and do a partial water change in the tank while the bag is floating. After 15min I open the bag and let the tank water leak in slowley as the bag fills up and starts to sink the fish swims out and i dump all the bag water into the tank.
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It's your level of comfort.
Floating for 15 minutes doesn't so much. (Test it, take a bag of water, take the temp of the bag and the tank, float for 15, take the temp again.) I'm seldom terribly worried about differences in temperature, since it's usually not great and fish are seldom very stressed by it. For example, I have 90 gallon tubs outside. The difference in temp from the top of the tank to the bottom of the tank is HUGE. But I see fish happily swimming up and down through the temperature bands with no ill effect, and they're breeding like gangbusters.
Adding water is important if your water varies widely from what the fish is in.
Accounting for differences in water chemistry and diluting the ammonia that's built up in the water are my big concerns, and unrelated to quarantine.
Floating for 15 minutes doesn't so much. (Test it, take a bag of water, take the temp of the bag and the tank, float for 15, take the temp again.) I'm seldom terribly worried about differences in temperature, since it's usually not great and fish are seldom very stressed by it. For example, I have 90 gallon tubs outside. The difference in temp from the top of the tank to the bottom of the tank is HUGE. But I see fish happily swimming up and down through the temperature bands with no ill effect, and they're breeding like gangbusters.
Adding water is important if your water varies widely from what the fish is in.
Accounting for differences in water chemistry and diluting the ammonia that's built up in the water are my big concerns, and unrelated to quarantine.
Like OG said, gently pour your fish from their bag, into your net, discarding the bag water. I don't even let the wet net touch the tank water.
I've never drip acclimated either.
I float the bags for as long as I have patience for, open the bags, discard the majority of the store water from the bag and add little bits of tank water in several sessions for as long as I have patience for..:nilly: Dump from bag, into net over a bucket, gently release fish from net to tank w/out the net getting into the tank.[/QU I'm confused, how do you "gently release fish from net to tank w/out the net getting in the tank?" I tried doing that with an empty net to try to visualize it, and couldn't figure it out how to safely do that.
All attempts to prevent the lfs water from entering your tank will be negated the first time the new fish takes a crap. I find it very hard to believe that a harmful parasite or pathogen will hitchhike its way on a fishing net rather than just stow away in the gills or bowels of a live fish.
