Water changes

[marie]

Originally Posted by PoonTang

Some creatures will tolerate larger changes of certain parameters than others.
You had better know which and how much if your going to do a large change or run the risk of killing things.
Marie...do you drip? and why?
Essentially acclimating is a series of small water changes so as not to shock the creatures.

Only when I have a cold and everyone can get there minds out of the gutter

Not saying everyone should do as I do (in fact you probably shouldn't) but the only animals I ever acclimate are shrimp and thats because I didn't once and the poor things were dead within a week. Everything else fish, urchin, crabs and corals all get dumped in as soon as the temps reach equilibrium and I have never lost anything.For snails, I tried R. Shimeks method of taking them out of the bag letting them dry for 20 min and then placing them in such a way that they find there own way down to the water...it worked wonderfully