Acclimating creatures

Also shrimp are more sensetive to salinity changes, than
fish. I've had customers put cleaner shrimp in tanks that
had the salinity way off, and kill thier shrimp, and
wonder why their fish did fine, but their shrimp died. A
lot of times pet stores keep the salinity in their fish
tanks real low. That always bugged me when I would by from
a pet store, come home, and check the salinity in the bag,
and find it real low.

Wayne Sallee
Wayne's Pets



Roy wrote on 1/28/2006 6:45 PM:
Fo9r fish I place the fish in a container, say 1 quart container and
pour out 1 pint of it, so its got one pint in the 1 quart container.
Then over a 15 minute time span I add 1/3rd of a pint every 5 minutes
until I get it back to one quart full measure, I then pour out 1 pint,
and repeat the process, after the 2nd time around I do it once
again....using water from the aquarium. I then transfer the fish to
the tank the water came from. For start fish I increase the 5 minute
time frame to 30 minures and do it 4 or so times...

For corals, I place them on a paper towel for 1 to 3 minutes until
they fully deflate or drain out most of their water.....then I place
em in the tank, and when they inflate again its with the tanks water.
I sometimes rinse them off with a splash of fresh sal****er from the
tank as well...

Shrimp are treated lke fish and I do snails and hermits as well but
only one time for a total of 15 minutes or so.



On Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:37:37 -0800, Don Geddis wrote:

Anyone know what kind of livestock _doesn't_ need to be carefully acclimated?

I know about fish and even more so invertebrates. I was "trained" to do a
careful 30-45 minute transfer of water from the new system to the holding
tank. Ideally via a slow drip, but in practice usually just by pouring cups
of tank water into the holding system every 5-10 minutes. The idea is to only
have slow changes in pH, salinity, and temperature, and to give the livestock
a chance to adapt slowly.

But I was recently told that corals only need the temperature acclimation.
Just float the bag in the tank water for 10 minutes so the temperature comes
inline, then just plop the coral into the new tank without worrying about
salinity or pH changes.

And it was also suggested to me that macroalgae (caulerpa, etc.) doesn't even
need that. Just toss the plants into the sal****er tank straight from the bag.

Anyone have experience with either of these things? Do you not bother to
slowly acclimate corals or algae, but only fish and invertebrates?

-- Don
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