drip acclimating

[jblake]

Just wondering how fast everyone acclimates their fish/corals/inverts. I have always done 1 drip per second, but it seems to take a few hours just to move 1 or 2 points in salinity. Whats your method and how may drips per second?

 

[jdabs]

I have never dripped personally....I've always been successful with floating it, maybe adding some of the tank water along the way and then putting it in the tank. Haven't lost anything yet doing it that way. That's just me though

 

[cquade7]

i have also not dripped I float the bag then slowly flood the bag under water and let the fish work its way in to the qt, as for coral float it on long drive and take it out and put it in.

 

[hackman72]

I run a very fast drip as well. You really need to make sure of the requirements of what animal you're acclimating and what the sensitivities are.

I've tried linkias myself 3 different times and lost them within a month all 3 times. I dripped them all for 3+ hours and to maintain the temp, I actually put them in a container in the sump with the dripline coming from the DT. The problem I'm told with these guys is the rapid/sudden change in oxygen levels so I dripped them much slower. But, after 3 losses, I'm done trying as I refuse to kill another one.

 

[cr500_af]

I don't drip fish unless they come from a system with SG that is very different from mine. I do most inverts (snails, shrimp) for 45-60 min at about 3 drips/sec.
Anemones and clams get much longer, about 1.5 hours (since I read a suggestion to do so). I've only acclimated two nems and one clam, but all of them are happy and healthy... didn't even act stressed upon introduction. So, I'm a believer in that system.

 

[corigan]

I drip acclimate fish for about 30 minutes to an hour. I do shrimp/crabs/clams for around an hour to an hour and a half. I don't acclimate snails except for temp and just throw them in.

 

[trigger-happy]

Fish get floated while receiving 3 hours of drip acclimation, using a steady stream through tiny airline tubing. If the fish starts to struggle and stress out in the bag, though, despite lights being off and everything being quiet, I'll release them early.

Inverts get an hour or so of the same treatment.

 

[johnr2604]

I used to be a floater untill I ran into problems. Now I drip all my fish and inverts. Corals still get nothing but 15 min float then into the tank.

 

[tony_caliente]

I try to at least double the volume of original water at rate that takes about a 1/2 hour. I monitor the temperature too. Can't say I have been tremendously sucessful or unsuccessful.

 

[rostato]

I always had problems keeping the temp in the bag up, so I just float, and add 1/4 cup of water every 10 minuted until the salinity, and temp match my system. This goes for everything including fish, clams, nems, and such.

Fish might get more like 3/4 cup of tank water every ten minutes because they are much more hardy, and to speed up the process.

 

[nanonano]

trigger-happy;471008 wrote: Fish get floated while receiving 3 hours of drip acclimation, using a steady stream through tiny airline tubing. If the fish starts to struggle and stress out in the bag, though, despite lights being off and everything being quiet, I'll release them early.

Inverts get an hour or so of the same treatment.

3 hours? Wow. I do about an hour.

 

[budsreef]

For fish I float for about ten minutes and then start a fast drip. While it's dripping, I check the bag water and work on the QT to match it and then add the fish. For inverts I do the same float, then a slow drip, then add to the tank. For corals I dip in half bag water, half tank water, rince in tank water and add to my frag tank. Once I know they are ok, I try to frag a piece to keep in the frag tank and add the main piece to the display.