k u do it in a bowl? i like to use plastic bags b/c that way i can make sure the temp are the same and i find that if i had something in a bowl the water i would be adding would be a different temp then the bowl water even if its by a degree or 2 thats alot for something so small. thats y i rather acclimate in bag i have control and i seriously think that a fish in a bag looking into a tank gets relaxed more then a fish in a white bowl not seeing nothing lol
Oh for bigger fish or alot of stuff at the same time i take a bucket and fill it up with tap water and heat up that water to the same as the tank and then after i acclimate them in the bucket with tank water i still give a couple of mins for them to acclimate to the temp in a bag in the tank.
It might be that a fish in a white bowl getting chucked into a tank could freak out a fish. i know if i was a fish i would be like wat the f lol, in this case i think a see threw plastic bag helpz(oh i also try to make the bag thin that way the fish isn't swimming alot just sort of restrained and hanging out(so more of a relaxed state its like we catching wild animal(snakes, lizards and etc) when i catch something thats wild it puts up a fight b/c thats instinct but if i hold the animal so it can't move and sometimes i cup its eyes it goes into a relaxed state where i can sometimes take a wild snake thats biting me from the start and calm it down to the point where i can put it around my neck or pass it to a friend knowing it won't bit anymore
OH lmao i just remembered when i go on vacation and go swimming in a lake i do this to impress my family and friends i go hunting for some big frogs(say the size of a hand) when i catch it, its natural for the frog to fight and try to get away so what u do is u grab the frog tight so it can't move(not tight to the point u kill it
) then u flip it upside down so u can see it's belly and u swing ur hands a bit so like u rock a baby, now u release ur hold while the frog is laying on its back and if u did it right the frog should go into a calm state where it will just lay there and not run, now u flip it so its right side up again u put it on ur head and go swimming around with a frog on ur head
I like to do it with like 3 frogs at once lol my record is 15 little frogs on my head all just hanging out lmao
its a hypnotic state animals get into and wats cool is if u have 15 frogz all sitting there and one breaks the trans all of them snap out at once so its like all of the go hey wtf and go running for it=P
lmao i just felt like writing heheh
