How long before you put fish into a tropical fish tank?

Answer 1

If it is a new tank, it will have its first ammonia cycle. Ammonia can be a huge problem and will most likely kill your fish. Set up your tank, Fill with tap water, Condition the water and put in a filter. Wait a whole week with the filter running then when you go to a pet store to buy fish, take a water sample for the pet store to test your water. So you know that the water wont kill your fish. Don't put the water from the pet store into your tank as it may not be as healthy as your new tank water. Before you put the fish in, Float the bag on top of the water for 20 minutes to get the fish used to the water temperature.

Hope this info helped!

Answer 2

from previous experience taken by all me, friends and family i would advise you all to put your fish in the tank to later than 2 weeks, all the fish that i have known have died if the owners have waited 1 week to put the fish(s) in whereas all the people that i know that have put the fish in no later than 2 days have lived at least over 1 and a half years!

Answer 3

Of course you must never add fish before the filter is fully cycled. (This can take around 3 weeks or so). Before releasing any fish into an environment one should make sure the water parameters (temp, pH, GH etc) are as close as possible to one another in order to avoid killing the new additions with shock.

Answer 4

2 hours. slowly take out water from the fish's bag and put in water from the tank after that, then put the whole bag (do not release fish, just put the bag, not the contents) and then wait for 15 min, then dump the fish in

Answer 5

yes you need 2 of them to get a long and give them some space to make them get along if you don't have any room for them they well... not come out if you clean the tank so you can make some little house for each of them then they communicate with each other then you have them come out

p.s (make sure if they don't get along with each other put the fish food in each of the houses) :)

Answer 6

First grab the fish. Then get ready the tank. Lastly like in Basketball,throw away the fish...Philip

Answer 7

You need to wait for the tank to cycle. This usually takes two weeks.

Answer 8

i wait 10 mins with them floating in the water then add some aquarium water into the bag and leave it for 5 mins them you can slowly release them

Answer 9

When it starts getting algea