Topic of the Week: Quarantine

[TangPolice]

Good for you! I'm willing to bet your luck runs out at some point, especially buying from where you do. Jmo.

Luck run out LOL friends call me the Golden Horseshoe :wink1:
Buying from where I do ???? don't be a hater Bro and I just remembered I stopped in Reef city yesterday afternoon and bought the Lrg Hippo Tang he had , and if we miss the snow this weekend i'll be stopping at Aquatica my girl is looking for another Emperor or Blue Ring still pizzed I sold the Sharks lmao

 

[Triggerdood]

Golden horseshoe, friends? Huh, who woulda thought.

 

[Joe5688]

So does this mean I can keep your qt setup? Lmao.

No!

 

[TangPolice]

But Daddy :disturbed:

 

[jm23]

Squirt a couple Turkey basters of water into bag. Temp acclimate and drop fish in.

This is exactly what I do as well for all fish, except they go into QT, never lost a fish and most suggest that this is less stressful then drip acclimating them or any type of prolonged acclimation. Of course if the salinity is way off I just change my QT to come within a point of the salinity and then dump the fish in. With corals I have never acclimated them, just dip and place into QT. With inverts, especially certain ones, I have lost some due to acclimating them to fast, so they would be the exception.

Joe, if for some reason my current fish QT doesn't cure me of Ich, I will probably throw in the towel too. My last attempt failed and I think I realized why now and made the appropriate changes, so we will see.

 

[Rich130981]

This is exactly what I do as well for all fish, except they go into QT, never lost a fish and most suggest that this is less stressful then drip acclimating them or any type of prolonged acclimation. Of course if the salinity is way off I just change my QT to come within a point of the salinity and then dump the fish in. With corals I have never acclimated them, just dip and place into QT. With inverts, especially certain ones, I have lost some due to acclimating them to fast, so they would be the exception.

Joe, if for some reason my current fish QT doesn't cure me of Ich, I will probably throw in the towel too. My last attempt failed and I think I realized why now and made the appropriate changes, so we will see.

I'm glad you posted this. I recently started drip acclimating and lost 2 fish. Before I used turkey baster and had great success. I wonder if that had anything to do with it. Oddly enough both deaths were platinum clowns about 3 weeks apart from different places.

 

[TangPolice]

This is exactly what I do as well for all fish, except they go into QT, never lost a fish and most suggest that this is less stressful then drip acclimating them or any type of prolonged acclimation. Of course if the salinity is way off I just change my QT to come within a point of the salinity and then dump the fish in. With corals I have never acclimated them, just dip and place into QT. With inverts, especially certain ones, I have lost some due to acclimating them to fast, so they would be the exception.

Joe, if for some reason my current fish QT doesn't cure me of Ich, I will probably throw in the towel too. My last attempt failed and I think I realized why now and made the appropriate changes, so we will see.

Done drip acclimation for 2,3, and even 4 hours and never had a problem but I do put a heater in the bucket so the temp stays the same during acclimation and I do add an air stone . I'm saying its more the stress and keeping them Happy Happy Happy . I'm adding another 100 pounds of live rock this afternoon and a half dozen Tangs and for sure my Blue Ring Angel will be pizzed but after a few hours of them checking it out and all the addtl hiding spots there gaining they'll be happy as a stripper doing a $40.00 Lap dance

 

[jm23]

I'm glad you posted this. I recently started drip acclimating and lost 2 fish. Before I used turkey baster and had great success. I wonder if that had anything to do with it. Oddly enough both deaths were platinum clowns about 3 weeks apart from different places.

I think acclimation is more critical depending time the fish has spent in the bag. From my understanding it is the opposite of what one might think: the longer the fish has been in the bag the faster you need to get that fish out, the shorter the fish has been in the bag the longer it can acclimate. The reason for this is the quick build up of ammonia that happens when fresh air is allowed into the bag. I always temp acclimate and try to make sure the fish is going into salinity that is close to what it was shipped in by changing my QT salinity, then I pour a cup or two of water (depending on how much water is in the bag) 3 times five minutes apart and then in they go. I think drip acclimating should only be used on inverts and maybe more sensitive fish (not sure what that list would comprise).

 

[madjoe]

I havent acclimated a fish in yrs i reach in bag grab with handput them in the tank i have a angel in my back seat now that will get saneprocess i call it fuck it xhuck it

 

[TangPolice]

I'm glad you posted this. I recently started drip acclimating and lost 2 fish. Before I used turkey baster and had great success. I wonder if that had anything to do with it. Oddly enough both deaths were platinum clowns about 3 weeks apart from different places.

your BIG problem will be the temp , from a temp acclimate to sitting in a bucket drip acclimating temp will change and when you drop them in the tank they get shocked . with a heater in the bucket and a airstone they can drip for hours . I have purchased/received fish from Florida and Indonesia as well that were in the bags for a while and they've been in the tank for 12 mos this April and there perfect . the longer the acclimation the better and don't be scared to burn thru 10 gallons of your tank water .GL