Anemone acclamation question
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E.J. Coral
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Who told you to do that?
One way to do it (Safest):
1. Make the temperature in the room close to the tank temp.
2. Put newly arrived specimen in container with shipping water and airstone.
3. Start siphon from tank to bucket using 1/4" tubing or smaller. Tie knot in tubing to get 1 drop/second or slower.
4. Remove water from container as it fills.
5. After several hours place specimen in tank with lights off and pump off.
6. After it attaches (should only be minutes), turn pumps back on (pumps should be covered ... especially during acclimation).
7. After a couple of hours turn on light(s). It is usually best to start with flourescents and wait a few mor hours to fire up the halides.
One way to do it (Safest):
1. Make the temperature in the room close to the tank temp.
2. Put newly arrived specimen in container with shipping water and airstone.
3. Start siphon from tank to bucket using 1/4" tubing or smaller. Tie knot in tubing to get 1 drop/second or slower.
4. Remove water from container as it fills.
5. After several hours place specimen in tank with lights off and pump off.
6. After it attaches (should only be minutes), turn pumps back on (pumps should be covered ... especially during acclimation).
7. After a couple of hours turn on light(s). It is usually best to start with flourescents and wait a few mor hours to fire up the halides.
E.J.'s techniques sounds a lot more logical than the advice you received about chilling the water. I would say, rather than add the airstone (which can raise the ph precipitously--a steep increase in ph is not good if there is ammonia in the water), do all the other steps and you should be good to go.
Garret, maybe you could tell the person who gave you the advice about chilling the water to follow E.J.'s procedure. Perhaps it would save some poor critter's life.
Garret, maybe you could tell the person who gave you the advice about chilling the water to follow E.J.'s procedure. Perhaps it would save some poor critter's life.
E.J. Coral
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Good to know about the pH increase. I have never experienced it personally, but I guess that it could be an issue if your item was shipped and has been in a bag for a long time without oxygen.
Truth be told, I used that procedure for the first few years that I was in the hobby, and now I am much more risky in my acclimations...lol.
Truth be told, I used that procedure for the first few years that I was in the hobby, and now I am much more risky in my acclimations...lol.
For anemones, I've heard different things about what is best. But the procedure you described (sans the airstone) sounds like a good one to me. I think it's important not to introduce the shipping water into the aquarium and to slowly get the water temp. and chemistry up to the aquariums.
Some say shipping anemones "dry" with very little water is the best way to transport them. That would make me nervous, but some knowledgeable folks suggest it. In that case, you would still want to slowly get the temp equalibrated and slowly add some tank aquarium water and not allow any of the residual shipping water into the aquarium.
Some say shipping anemones "dry" with very little water is the best way to transport them. That would make me nervous, but some knowledgeable folks suggest it. In that case, you would still want to slowly get the temp equalibrated and slowly add some tank aquarium water and not allow any of the residual shipping water into the aquarium.
