Do I just put them in a clean cycled tank and cross my fingers?

[jlbfish]

There are fish in this bucket. There old tank (just purchased) is full of algae. Do I just put them in a clean cycled tank and cross my fingers?

Hep!

 

[Sake]

Do you mean put them in an extra cycled tank you have while you clean out their old tank? If so, acclimate them put them in and should be fine.

 

[Bbush]

I think ph and temp must be close to the same before you can just dump them in. If not then I would bag em and acclimatize them like u would if you got them from pet store.

 

[jlbfish]

I bought a 10 gallon tank. I think I'm going to put them in with the nasty water and slowly cycle out some for clean water first.

 

[HeatherW]

i wuld do what bbush said. put them in a bag and acclimate them slowly to a clean cycled tank.
if you really want to put the nasty water in I would only add half or a quarter of the nasty water and the rest clean treated, temp matched water.

 

[jlbfish]

I put them in a 10gallon with an extra seeded sponge I had. I was a little wary given their conditions. Anyway looks like two of them have white spots on their fins. I have some Maricyn that I'll start giving them. Not sure. The pleco didn't make it :/