All fishkeepers seem to add their fish in slightly different ways so I thought it would be interesting to see how we all did things.
Your doing it exactly how I used to and I think this is the most common way. It's reassuring that the ammonia didn't go up by much when you put your Seneye in the bag.
When i say chasing the fish, I'm referring to when I have the fish acclimated in the bag floating in the tank and I need to get them into the tank. To avoid putting any store water into my tank I put a net into the bag and 'fish' them out (pun alert!!). I imagine your doing the same? "Chasing" is probably not quite the right word...
I was talking to a store assistant the other day who was saying how he thought putting a nef into the bag was a bad idea for the stress levels of the fish. Small space in bag, multiple fish that don't want to be separated, large scary net etc etc. He had caught too many fish than what id asked for and poured the whole lot back in the tank and started again rather than just catching one and putting it back - hence this conversation.
This is why I thought I'd do it the "pouring the temperature only acclimated fish out of the bag and into a net over a bucket" way, to see if the fish behaved any differently. Whilst I've only done it once (so no conclusions to be drawn yet!) the fish did seem to be calmer in the net and seemed to start behaving normally in the tank sooner...
Are any others using this method or do you have your own schools (fish pun!) of thought on this?
(I'll move this chat into another thread if it gets off topic too much
@Helen)