As to what special precautions/care you guys

take after you have bought fish from your lfs

and are preparing to make the journey home,

and what you do with the fish when you have

reached your destination?

thanks in advance for any feedback.

They are bagged (preferably in bags with rounded corners) with 1/4 water to 3/4 air and filled with oxygen then secured with a rubber band. Not too many fish per bag either.

Since it is usually a minimum 4 hour journey home from our lfs, we pack the bags of fish into polystyrene boxes to keep the temperature even. At this time of year we need it to keep them cool!

Once home they should be put into a quarantine tank but I must confess to being quite slack at this. I just float the bags a while then slowly release the fish into the main tank.

I did this the other day and got worried when 4 of the 6 barbs died 3 days later. All other fish are still well though.

my lfs is only 20min away so unlease its a cold winters day i just put them in an open poly box .when i get home i float them for an hour as i slowly mix with tank water if there from out of town . most of my new fish go into species tanks so you could say that was a quarantine tank the others go in to a muilti tank tric-il filtration set up with a big uv filter in it .

i also choose my fish carefuly checking the fish for signs of ilness before i buy.