Re: Acclimating creatures

Why do you do this with corals Roy? That sounds kinda scary to me. No, I'm not questioning your method as you always seem to give good advice, just wondering why you do it.

I've only ever purchased one coral (so far) and I acclimated it the same as for the fish and shrimp (as the petshop guy told me to I think). I spend 1/2 to 3/4 hour adding water from the tank but I start off with a small amount of water and gradually increase the volume I add as I add more. ie. Start off with, say, a litre, and add 50ml, wait 5 minutes and add 50ml, wait 5 minutes and add 100ml, wait another 5 minutes and add 100ml, wait 5 minutes and add 150ml etc. That's a pretty rough estimate and depends a little on how stressed the fish seems to be by it but a coral doesn't really show if it is stressed. It never occurred to me to take the coral completely out of the water. I am so nervous with my purchases knowing that this is a crucial stop in their survival rate. Do yo do this b/c you don't have a q-tank setup with the lighting requirements of a coral (because I don't)?

Roy wrote: 
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 saltwater 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 <don@xxxxxxxxxx> 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 saltwater 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
<>_______________________________________________________________________________
<>Don Geddis                      don@xxxxxxxxxx          http://reef.geddis.org/
<>Stupidity:  Quitters never win, winners never quit, but those who never win AND
<>never quit are idiots.  -- Despair.com



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