Acclimating fish

[reefwars]

Originally Posted by fishytime

depends where I get the fish from.....if the fish has traveled a long distance and has spent some time in the bag, I drip acclimate the fish over aprox an hour.....if the fish has come form a LFS and spent relatively little time in a bag then I just temperature acclimate it and then put it in.....

my acclimation process has gone down the drain lol if its not from this city i acclimate slowly if its from the city i barely acclimate at all.....my last fish a yellow tang was just thrown in straight from the bag....laziness towards my tank has got the best of me lately..... yellow did just fine

if you do not use an ato then keeping your salinity slightly lower isnt a bad idea then evaporation will not bring it so high.....higer salinity levels are harder on livestock than lower salinity.

my tank when the return section is topped off sits at 1.022-1.023 corals seem to not be affected at all.

[banditpowdercoat]

I just got a CPR Acclimation center from JL. http://www.jlaquatics.com/phpstore/s...t_ID=mc-faid02

Awesome little unit. It works well. Put fish and little shipping water in it, open drip valve and set on bracket in tank. Container slowly sinks into tank, letting water into it from tank. Acclimatizing to salinity, and temp. Once its full, Close valve at bottom, and drain water, remove fish and put in display tank, Worked great, easiest acclimation I have ever done. I used to do the drip in a bucket method, But you can't get temp right as water in bucket cools as it's dripping over the 2-3 hrs. The CPR is in the tank, so is kept warm

[mrhasan]

Hello Everyone,

Thanks for the helpful tips

I got a chocolate chip star yesterday and dripped acclimated it for like 2 hours. It's doing great. I have put a flake near its tubes and it ate it too. Alongside, its busy exploring the new tank but I guess my clown is a bit unhappy with it since it was also taking the clown's spot and the clown kept on changing its host spot. Fun animals