Acclimation help needed

Redman88

Redman88

New member
Okay so I just picked up a setup. Now that I am home with the fish in a 5 gallon bucket of water from the tank with some of the rock from that tank. The rest of the rock is in another bucket. Just used my refractometer to test my tank water and the bucket. The bucket test at 1.009 and the 25 gallons I have already mixed is at 1.026. What is the best way to acclimate the fish. I don't believe I need to acclimate the live rock or do I.
 
Your set up is not ready for fish. You need to return the fish to store and come back home and set up your tank and cycle it. It can take weeks to get ready for fish. Please don't kill the fish!
 
Well, as long as there is nothing else but fish, i am sure those fish will be fine by lowering salinity to 1.020 or 1.015 for now and slowing bring it up.

If your tank is not cycled, introduce lots of bacteria and do massive water changes for few days or weeks. Fish don't die that easily unless they are sick to begin with.
 
What he meant by your tank is not ready, it is better to cycle your tank for weeks before introduce any living thing in order to have high survivability; does not matter where the fish came from. its all about fillteration.

However you can add artificial(bottles of living bacteria) liquid to the tank to help cycling the tank.
 
not sure I understand the situation.

but you can lower salinity for fish almost immediately, causes no Issues.

its increasing salinity that you need to take your time with and do it slowly.
 
The fish came from a set up tank I got every thing from the tank rock and sand. Tank stand lights and filters the only thing I have supplied is a new tank the same size a new stand to fit the current stands I have. And new water
 
okay, and the new water you made is lower salinity than the old tank's water which the fish and rocks and sand are in ?
 
ohh ! so he was keeping the tank at hypo salinity ?


you need to drip the fish ... but for how long ! cant keep it in bucket for too long ....

Id lower salinity of new water. bring the two closer together. then increase the tank salinity by topping off with salt water ?

wait for others to comment as well ...
 
Redman88 said:
Rock and sand as well though I think I am just going to toss the sand way to fine for my tastes
Click to expand...

yes !

the sand has alot of organics bonded to it ... almost impossible to get it out. with low salinity I dont think there is too much activity in it anyways to be worth it ... maybe you can keep a bit of it to seed the new sand ...
 
thats what Id do ... bring it closer to it at least. get the fish back to their environment, and then increase salinity over the coming week or so.

ot QT the fish and bring salinity up in next couple days. u could add a heater and power head to the bucket to make it a QT.

thats all I can think of at this time.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Similar threads

Brian60077
Red Sea Salt
Replies
3
Views
340
Uncle99
Uncle99
ClownBubbaJoe
Help To Build A Dream Anemone & Host Fish, Crab & Volcano Tank.
Replies
14
Views
287
vlangel
vlangel
J
Mg Powder Mix Ratio when Mg Chloride Powder has Started to Liquify
Replies
5
Views
2K
griss
griss
R
How is my chemistry looking?
Replies
1
Views
195
Uncle99
Uncle99
S
200 Gallon Mixed Reef - Rock Questions
2
Replies
20
Views
556
wvned
wvned
Back
Top