Acclimating new fish

[Sime76]

I just bought a couple of Geophagus Orange Heads and a couple of Acarichthys heckelii.
My Tank water is about ph 6.5 and it looks like the bag water is is very close to 5. Would there be any danger to the fish doing the standard fill abit wait a bit method seeing there is a large ph gap?

Cheers

Sime

[sharn]

from what ive read that drip method doesnt really work all that well. do you have a spare aquarium that you can set up and adjust to their ph then slowly up it to normal? those ph up and down things will be ok to use temporarily to get the fish to normal aquarium ph i assume. 1.5 of a difference is fair bit but i dont know much about your fish, most people just dump new ones in the normal tank without checking ph and they live (probably not happily till they adjust) but theyre normally hardy ones. better to do it nicely for your fish if you can aye :D

[nicholas76]

it is quite a change in ph


I find the drip system hasnt failed me yet though!