Ornamental Fish Production and Management

2.2.3 Introduction care

The newly purchased fishes should not be released into the aquarium tank immediately. The transported polythene bags containing live fishes should be first placed in the tank water so that the water temperature in the bag as well as in the tank water becomes equal. Then the small quantity of tank water may be mixed with that of the polythene bag and this may be kept for about 15 minutes so that the fish would acclimatize to the new water environment. Subsequently the fishes are transferred into the new tank by using hand nets. Immediate feeding of fishes after stocking in the tank should be avoided.