drip acclimating ...

It kind of depends on what you are acclimating and how off the water is from your tank. I normally do 1 drip per second or 2 but for sensitive stuff, I do longer.
 
I have never drip acclimated and never lost anything due to acclimation. Before opening the bag, I temp acclimate it by floating it for 20 minutes in the water it is about to go in. I then open the bag and check the salinity as long as they are close I will then add 1 to 2 cups of water to the bag every 5 for 20 minutes (so 4 times total). If the salinity is far lower then mine, I will adjust the QT water to match. Also remember a fish can go down in salinity a lot faster then going up in salinity. Take your time bringing the salinity up over a few days in the QT. I then dump the water in the bag down the drain and place the fish into the QT. The reason I like going a little quicker is due to ammonia building up in the bag (this is more of an issue when they are shipped and far less of an issue when buying from the LFS).

I figured it was okay to throw this in as two very knowledgeable reefers have already answered your question.
 
^^^ I acclimate my fish like that too but I used drip acclimation mainly for the zoas I would get in and inverts.
 
Just so you know larger fish require longer acclimation time due to less oxygen in the bag they arrived as well as ammonia possibly.
I like to throw a air stone in the bag to generate more oxygen when I get the bag open.
And yes its easier for a fish to acclimate to water that has less salinity than more because the more salt the more dense which has less O2.
The longest time I ever drip acclimated a fish was about 9 hrs, but your also talking about a 10"+ fish.
Hope that helps
 
LOL Joe, the second I seen this thread I remembered you talking about this in an old thread.

I had the owner of a LFS, which everyone around here knows, tell a frag class that he never acclimates. People almost passed out.
 
CoralN00b said:
LOL Joe, the second I seen this thread I remembered you talking about this in an old thread.

I had the owner of a LFS, which everyone around here knows, tell a frag class that he never acclimates. People almost passed out.
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did this happen at the Oct frag swap last year?? :becky:
 
CoralN00b said:
LOL Joe, the second I seen this thread I remembered you talking about this in an old thread.

I had the owner of a LFS, which everyone around here knows, tell a frag class that he never acclimates. People almost passed out.
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I told a lfs i dont they almost cried and covered their ears. I dont even float the bags unless it was long car ride and i need a potty break lol.
 
madjoe said:
I told a lfs i dont they almost cried and covered their ears. I dont even float the bags unless it was long car ride and i need a potty break lol.
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So you just bring them home and put them in the tank ? (hope you are not talking about fish, or do you do the same thing with fish also ??)

i know your tank is beautiful so may be they dont need to be acclimated ??
 
I'll float corals in my tank for about 15 minutes. Then after getting dipped they go right in. The only exception is perhaps a mariculture or wild coral. They've already been stressed so much that they need to be babied.

As for fish, I'll float them for 15-20 minutes. I open the bag, check the salinity, always important because some stores run their fish systems at a low salinity, then I'll start a drip in order to raise it till it matches. The whole time you need to make sure you're bag, container, whatever remains in your sump. The reason is that you've just temp acclimated the bag, now you have it sitting outside the tank getting acclimated to your house temp. Sounds stupid but I learned that the hard way. Had to float the bag a second time after doing the drip. :argh:
 
I think Joe's last wording for his acclimation was "chuck em in" right joe?

Also, it wasn't the frag swap. I was at Living sea for a fragging class on a saturday morning twice. Someone asked about acclimation and the owner had the same take on it that joe said. He said they just chucked everything in the tanks because they have already been stressed from shipping.

There was a deep gasp in the room.
 
tinman said:
So you just bring them home and put them in the tank ? (hope you are not talking about fish, or do you do the same thing with fish also ??)

i know your tank is beautiful so may be they dont need to be acclimated ??
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Fish coral shrimp snails everything fuk it chuck it . They always eating after ten minutes. I do sit there and watch to c if they get picked on been few times i had to net and chuck it into other tank . Had to with my blue line butter fly he was getting wooped by achillies so threw him in reef so that was two times he didnt get acclimated was eating in both tanks and doing great in reef
 
Oh wow I never knew about the spike in ph with an airstone, I will have to check ph before I do anything next time, Well if their is a next time. I don't plan on adding anything to the tank anymore, if fact I'd like to sell it all as a whole setup.
 
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