New fish for tank HELP!!!?

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I kow this is stupid but i just cleaned out my fish tank and got some new fish, but before i could float them the bag they came in got a hole in it. They are currently sitting in a large bowl in the watr that was in the bag. How can i introduce them into the new tank without killing them?
 
pour them and the bowl of water into a ziploc baggy seal it and put it in the tank for 15 mins(it's not the water they need to get used to it's the temp)
 
take a small plastic bowl and/or bag and add enough water from the original bag, to either the bowl or bag and float for 10-15 minutes. they will have enough oxygen to survive.
 
I don't do the adding water from the tank into the bag thing, never have and have never had a problem. You can take any plastic bag (never used for anything before--like the plastic bags you can get from the supermarket produce section, or a baggie or sandwish bag, etc.) and dump the water and fish from your bowl into the bag and float the bag so the water temp gets to the tank temp. After about 30 mins (there's usually not a lot of water in the bag so it warms up fast), suspend a net over a container and pour the water from the bag into the net letting the fish get caught in the net. Then quickly put the net into the tank and let the fish go. Dump the water from the bag (now in the container) down the drain. Usually the water from the store is not all that different from the water you use so there's not a huge discrepancy that the fish need to adjust to as far as water chemistry/minerals, etc. are concerned.
 
Every so often a small amount of water form the bowl and pour it down the sink, then take the same amount of water from the tank and replace what you took out from the bowl.

do this every few minutes until the water is the same temperature then your free to add it into the tank
 
first you should put them in a clear container and leave them facing the fish tank for an hour and a half, so they get used to there new habitat. if you just dump them in right away, they can have a hard attack.
 
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