acclimating sps to ulns

[skratchiechan]

let's say you get sps from a lfs and they run their alk at 10 and with ulns you get an alk of 7...

whats the best method for acclimating?
Tia

 

[JT3069]

drip slowly
very slowly maybe over 12 hours

 

[ek9vboi]

Most just temp acclimate and pop them in. I do the same.

 

[JT3069]

:blown:

Most just temp acclimate and pop them in. I do the same.

that is to much of an alk shock!!!
thats the best way i know of to kill a piece of sps coral!!!!

 

[Allmost]

:blown:
that is to much of an alk shock!!!
thats the best way i know of to kill a piece of sps coral!!!!

I do the same ...

no shock. nor Issues.

 

[Alex T.]

It seems a lot easier to introduce them to ULNS than to get them back to a "regular" system. That may be why you see so many threads of people that come off of Zeovit or other ULNS systems and start having problems.

 

[djkms]

Temp, dip, drop. IME SPS handle a swing down in dKH a lot better then a swing up.

 

[JT3069]

seems my tank my just run differently, mine is the other way around
i go down in alk any and they start bleaching especaily birds nest

 

[JT3069]

i have noticed that,the people posting above do live higher off the sea level
could altitude have any effect ?

 

[Alex T.]

i have noticed that,the people posting above do live higher off the sea level
could altitude have any effect ?

I can't speak for others, but I'm able to throw a stone into the Atlantic Ocean on my drive over the causeway to work. So I would guess I'm closer to sea level than most.

 

[allsps40]

If running a lower alk then the system the frag came from do as said and drip acclimate over several hours. That is the safest method. I just temp acclimate by floating the bag and then add to the frag rack. I ever know what the alk is that the frag came from could be 11 could be 7 but I have never had any issues from adding a sps right to the tank. Most new sps look good and show PE with in a few hours if that.

 

[JT3069]

even with montipora? they seem to be the best at stning when alk drops to fast

 

[allsps40]

For me montis are stupid easy to keep, they grow like weeds and I cant kill them. The smoothed skinned acros are the hardest.

 

[djkms]

For me montis are stupid easy to keep, they grow like weeds and I cant kill them. The smoothed skinned acros are the hardest.

+1 I have never lost a montipora and IMO are the easiest SPS to keep.

 

[JT3069]

i've had an alk drop nearly destroy my monti's