{"id":342,"date":"2016-05-09T16:45:30","date_gmt":"2016-05-09T15:45:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadeservices.co.uk\/mraquarium.co.uk\/?p=342"},"modified":"2016-10-09T20:45:02","modified_gmt":"2016-10-09T19:45:02","slug":"acclimate-new-fish-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mraquarium.co.uk\/acclimate-new-fish-2\/","title":{"rendered":"How to acclimate your new fish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-343 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/mraquarium.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Acclimating-Fish.jpg\" alt=\"Buying new fish for your aquarium is always an exciting experience. To ensure your new friend settles in well follow these simple steps; 1) Remove all packaging the bag containing the fish was protected in while ensuring that your new fish is not being exposed to bright light. 2) Place the closed bag in the aquarium and let it settle for a few minutes. 3) Open the bag to allow a small amount of the aquarium water into the bag continue doing so every few minutes. (Can take upto an hour). 4) You can now release your fish into the aquarium. (Many recommend having the lights off during and after this process to allow your fish more time to settle down in it's new environment)\" width=\"800\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mraquarium.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Acclimating-Fish.jpg 800w, https:\/\/mraquarium.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Acclimating-Fish-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/mraquarium.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Acclimating-Fish-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mraquarium.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Acclimating-Fish-683x1024.jpg 683w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>For tips on how to care for your\u00a0new Goldfish, please follow this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ornamentalfish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/10-Goldfish-in-aquaria.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LINK<\/a>.<\/h3>\n<p>[peekaboo]<\/p>\n<p>[peekaboo_content]<\/p>\n<p>Buying new fish for your aquarium is always an exciting experience. To ensure your new friend settles in well follow these simple steps;<\/p>\n<p>1) Remove all packaging the bag containing the fish was protected in while ensuring that your new fish is not being exposed to bright light.<\/p>\n<p>2) Place the closed bag in the aquarium and let it settle for a few minutes.<\/p>\n<p>3) Open the bag to allow a small amount of the aquarium water into the bag continue doing so every few minutes. (Can take upto an hour).<\/p>\n<p>4) You can now release your fish into the aquarium. (Many recommend having the lights off during and after this process to allow your fish more time to settle down in it&#8217;s new environment)<\/p>\n<p>[\/peekaboo_content]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; For tips on how to care for your\u00a0new Goldfish, please follow this LINK. [peekaboo] [peekaboo_content] Buying new fish for your aquarium is always an exciting experience. To ensure your new friend settles in well follow these simple steps; 1) Remove all packaging the bag containing the fish was protected in while ensuring that your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":345,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mraquarium.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mraquarium.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mraquarium.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mraquarium.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mraquarium.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mraquarium.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":396,"href":"https:\/\/mraquarium.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342\/revisions\/396"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mraquarium.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mraquarium.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mraquarium.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mraquarium.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}