They were in bags barely bigger than them. I got two betta delivered a few days ago. That's why for things being delivered from abroad in a bag over multiple days, you're sometimes better off just throwing them in the tank as quickly as possible.īut all of that doesn't happen in 3 hours, and they would need to of made that ammonia themselves in the bag to begin with. Then when the bag is opened and temperature acclimatised (which is almost always an increase unless you like somewhere tropical), and the dissolved CO2 and O2 tries to change to match the amount in the atmosphere (pouring water into the bag with more O2 and less CO2 speeds this up), the bound ammonia then partially converts to free ammonia and kills or damages the animals in the bag, whilst they are being acclimatised. But it still shows up on a test kit, most things test total ammonia, not just free ammonia. Low temperature in general and high CO2 and low oxygen make the water more acidic which also binds ammonia. It's that ammonia is created by the animal, but low temperature and less oxygen keep it in its bound form. Its not that the oxygen causes ammonia to spike either. There's also not going to be bacteria in that bag to covert it, and not in those amounts. Their bio load is near negligible, and in 3 hours they aren't going to make that much ammonia. Nah, that's something I'd expect could happen to a fish in transit for more than one day. The sidebar image was created by /u/whale52. The Snoo shrimp was created by /u/Stormsky.
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