Acclimatizing Ricordia

[mars6390]

Do you need to do anything special to acclimatize ricordia? I am recieving a few via express mail and want to make sure I do it right. Do they need fresh water dipping? Thanks.

Marcus

 

[All Delight]

I dont FW dip.

If they're yumas, I take good care of acclimating. I'll take hours acclimating. Slowly adding water from the tank every 1hrs. Yumas are really sensitive.

If they're florida's I'll do it more quickly. Floridas are really hardy.

 

[chrisstie]

Just because everything I decide to take home with me is something I want to care for I am careful acclimating. I have a little airline hose I use to slowly drip tank water into a container I put whatever coral in after it spends a good 20 mins or so temp acclimating

 

[robcropper]

same here, I temp acclimate them for a half hour or so. As long as they look happy and not freaking out them I'll put them in. The more sensitive stuff gets the drip, about an hour or so on those.

 

[geoxman]

if the temp in the bag in within 7-10 degrees, I rarely/never acclimate, unless yumas. good luck

 

[FLricordia]

Ricordias only require temp acclimation and then they can go right into your tank, but it probably won't do any harm to drip acclimate. I wouldn't do this though for something that was shipped and not purchased locally. best to get it into the new water right away. Adding new water to the old that it was shipped in is not a good thing.
Really, only fish and inverts need drip acclimation. With corals it is usually recommended to temp acclimate only.

 

[mars6390]

Thanks for the education guys.

 

[toddman74]

within 5 degrees, I would just stick the rics directly in the tank... more than 5 degrees, I would float the bag to tank temp and then stick it in the tank. Be careful about light acclimation also... I would stick all yumas and rics to the bottom and away from direct light first.