What to do? New fish coming

Jannika said:
I'm not a big fan of drip acclimation. If your pH is higher than the pH the fish has been kept in, it could increase the toxicity of any ammonia present. If the temperature is about the same, I would hold a net over a bucket, pour the fish in, then dip the net into your tank until they swim out.
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That's why you put prime when acclimating.

I'd rather I risk having them in a high toxic ammonia level with prime for about 45 minutes than shock them in a new environment..
 
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I'm thinking I may go with one of the ammonia locking products (prime if I can find it at the LFS), and just do the drip acclimation that way. I really don't like the idea of just dumping them right into the tank with no acclimation time at all.
 
Well the QT tank is ready to go. Cleaned it out w/ hot water, filled it, dechlorinated, added a few water sprite plants, put the light on it, and will put the filter on once the fish actually arrive. For now the filter is running on my 46 gallon. I cleaned the filter out with hot water too since the last time I used it was for a sick fish and I had used a fungus medication, so I didn't really want to run it into my bowfront in case any of that was still in the filter. Anyhow, hopefully over the next couple of days it will reseed enough from my currently cycled tank to handle the bioload of 2 teeny fish in the 10 gallon. :)

Also have the heater in the tank, but since I don't know what type of fish they are, and since nothing is in there now, I'm not going to bother plugging it in yet. Will worry about that this weekend.

I'm ready - or as ready as I can be for the unknown I guess.
 
I think drip acclimating is especially needed with fish from a neglected tank. The TDS (total dissloved solids) are probably through the roof & you'd risk osmotic shock putting them in low TDS from high. Good luck whatever they are
 
Well, it's down to 1 now. He came in and said one died yesterday. So he is planning on dropping off the remaining fish tomorrow sometime. I'm ready either way. Hopefully whatever it is will be relatively healthy. The bowl that it is in sounds more like a vase from his description, which might explain the lack of growth, even if it is a goldfish. So now my concern is... if that is the case and it is a goldfish, it has to be incredibly stunted by now. What can I do about that? Anything? Is there any hope for a fish that has been stunted for so long? Anything I should do differently to help it survive?
 
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