Best waty to acclimate snail...dry method

[hypermikie]

I would agree mostly with python. I am a seriously lazy, and impatient "acclimator".

I have nassarius, ceriths, margaritas, turbos, and a few astreas and most recieved a 5 min bag float (just so I could grab the scissors to cut the darn rubberband off) and then added some tank water and dump.

The last group I purchased from Premium Aquatics were just in wet paper towel. So they received the..."REGGIE FOR THREEEEE....BOOM BABY!" being from Indiana and all.

I have never noticed any killing over. I am not that big on the corals or fish either. Corals especially after watching Eric Borneman's video on "fragging", and using some of those techniques (check it out if you have not seen it!)

Fish get the best treatment, but its not hours of Drip........................Drip........................................Drip.................Etc.

 

[IPowderBlueTang]

I always float the bag for 15 minutes to get the temperature right and drop them in the tank. Never drip acclimate my snails!

 

[dga]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9297857#post9297857 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by SurfatC3G
I always just set them on my mag float above the water line. when they are ready, they ease themselves into the water.

yea, i like that idea...

 

[ralphie16]

I ended up putting them on my return Locklines just above the water line. This morning I looked in the tank and they are all in the water and snailing away.

I have had quite a few snail deaths in the past when I listened to a lot of you and just put them directly in the water without any acclimation. They did not die right away but over the next few days I saw a number of them die.

Took me about 45 seconds for the whole process. I would recommend this practice to others as well.

 

[Paintbug]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9303873#post9303873 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by hypermikie


I have never noticed any killing over. I am not that big on the corals or fish either. Corals especially after watching Eric Borneman's video on "fragging", and using some of those techniques (check it out if you have not seen it!)

could you point me to it? i have herd about it but yet to see it.

 

[hypermikie]

I believe this to be the correct video link:
http://www.zooxanthellae.com/videos/borneman.wmv
(you may want to "right click" the link and "Save As" as it is a slow download)

You can see Eric cut, slice, and saw through many corals. Then glue, stick and pierce them back on to frag discs and the like. All of this, of course, is done out of the water for several minutes.

While not trying to derail this thread, I think many (not all) of the animals we keep, icluding snails and the such are much hardier than we give them credit for. With some of the conditions they face in the wild and those conditions it takes to get them to us, it is sometimes pretty amazing.

I agree we should take very good care and precautions to keep and help these animals Thrive, but in a lot of cases there death is not attributed to simply our acclimation process.

Just my $.02

Mike

 

[greenbean36191]

Yeah, most of the animals we keep are much tougher than people in the hobby give them credit for, but being out of the water and natural salinity variations aren't comparable to instantly going from one salinity to another. If your LFS water is pretty close to your tank's salinity you can get away with the 3 point shot, and with some snails it will be ok even if the change is fairly big, but you can also kill snails that way. I've killed snails with changes as little as .003 psu.

 

[useskaforevil]

ive never had any problems i could connect to acclimation and i've stopped drip acclimating anything because ive never seen the benefit. ive tossed brittle stars and shrimp after 15 minutes of floating and about a 1/2 mix of their water and mine and everythign goes fine. i dont acclimate hermits or snails at all, and ive never had a problem

 

[Paintbug]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9306021#post9306021 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by hypermikie
I believe this to be the correct video link:
http://www.zooxanthellae.com/videos/borneman.wmv
(you may want to "right click" the link and "Save As" as it is a slow download)

You can see Eric cut, slice, and saw through many corals. Then glue, stick and pierce them back on to frag discs and the like. All of this, of course, is done out of the water for several minutes.


Mike

 

[Paintbug]

thats it!! i have been looking for that vid for 2 months!! one of the members of my club mentioned it, i have been dieing to see it. THANKS!!!!

 

[virginiadiver69]

Just float them in the bag like you would some guppies from petsmart.