Whether it's your first aquarium or you are an expert aquarist, bringing fish home from the store can be a tricky task for everyone. Getting your fish home safely can be easy or very difficult. With a few steps your fish can arrive home and be happy and healthy. The distance to get your fish is a big factor in getting your pets home safely. Longer distance can cause hardships for the fish and yourself.

If at all possible the best thing to do, for the fish is to take them home ASAP. The fish can survive for only awhile in the bags they come it. The bags are filled with air and the fish can live only for a while without airflow.

Leaving the fish in the bags they come in is ok, but not suggested. The bags have only a certain amount of water and the fish ca survive for a small period of time in the bags. Moving the fish to a different container is highly helpful.

One of the biggest mistakes many people do is to leave the fish alone. Leaving the fish alone can cause many problems; they can die, spill out of the bag, overheat or freeze. The best decision is to keep the fish with you at all times until they are home in your tank.

When the fish get home there is one last step to insure that they get into the tank comfortably. If your fish were in a tank then put them back in the bags. If they were in the bags then float the bags in the tank. Floating the bags in the tank will insure that the fish do not go into shock, when put into the tank.

By following the steps earlier in the article you can avoid losing any fish. The fish will live happily in the new tank. The temperature of the new water will not shock the fish. The new fish will also not die in the way home.

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