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if you buy a clam online do you drip acclimate? if so for how long?
drip acclimate clams?
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Rockitmakr
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Whichever method of acclimation works well for you then use it. Usually I will acclimate for about 45 minutes on sensitive animals, 15-20 minutes on everything else. When it comes to clams though, I would not get one until your system is well established & you have sufficient lighting to keep them. IMO, lighting is the key to keeping clams.
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The 28 has been established for quite some time, it's been transferred and so on and its been in my care for about about 5-6 months. it has a 250 14k mh with actinics. only some small corals in it and just 2 small fish. both 10 and 28 have MH, but no clams are going in the 10
so far it's been stable at
ammonia:0ppm
nitrites:0ppm
nitrates: 10ppm or less, i cant tell so i go with the higher of the 3
salinity: 36
pH: 8.3
calcium: around 440-450
dkh: 7
never used tap
do all of these parameters check out? or should i continue to just wait?
Rockitmakr
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Should be fine IMO.
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i've been told that sg is a bunch of BS, and also told me why would fish care how dense the water is? something like that.
so ive just been going by salinity and keeping it at 35-36, so far things have been going well. softies doing good, lps doing good, snails good. keeping the same in my 10gallon and everything is flourishing
just wondering, but how is sg more precise? not busting you or anything, just wondering. thanks!
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<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10435684#post10435684 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by mbbuna
if the fish didnt care we would all be keeping them in fresh waterit matters, keep them at NSW, 35PPT or 1.026sg
ah ok, so then it's fine to use salinity or SG. thanks for the info.
Slakker
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IMO reporting your results in SG is "better" just because it seems to be the most widely used increment. After examining the "Salinity" side of my refractometer more closely, it appears that they are incremented the same way...
For whatever reason I just find myself having an easier time thinking in Specific Gravity when I look at the scale. 1.026 just makes more sense to me than 35...maybe I'm crazy.
Didn't mean to sound like I was hassling you, I've just always seen SG posted on the forums rather than PPT.
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When I brought my first fish home, I temp acclimated them, poured in a cup or two of water, and then just dumped the two clowns in. They nearly died. I can't say if it was because of the acclimation, or if they were sick to begin with, but they had a couple scary weeks in QT.
Since then I've acclimated all my corals and fish by the drip method for approximately an hour. So far it's been working out really well. I usually end up acclimating everything twice (once into QT, and then again two weeks later into the main tank).
For whatever reason I just find myself having an easier time thinking in Specific Gravity when I look at the scale. 1.026 just makes more sense to me than 35...maybe I'm crazy.
Didn't mean to sound like I was hassling you, I've just always seen SG posted on the forums rather than PPT.
Whoop...back on topic...
When I brought my first fish home, I temp acclimated them, poured in a cup or two of water, and then just dumped the two clowns in. They nearly died. I can't say if it was because of the acclimation, or if they were sick to begin with, but they had a couple scary weeks in QT.
Since then I've acclimated all my corals and fish by the drip method for approximately an hour. So far it's been working out really well. I usually end up acclimating everything twice (once into QT, and then again two weeks later into the main tank).
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<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10436447#post10436447 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Slakker
IMO reporting your results in SG is "better" just because it seems to be the most widely used increment. After examining the "Salinity" side of my refractometer more closely, it appears that they are incremented the same way...
For whatever reason I just find myself having an easier time thinking in Specific Gravity when I look at the scale. 1.026 just makes more sense to me than 35...maybe I'm crazy.
Didn't mean to sound like I was hassling you, I've just always seen SG posted on the forums rather than PPT.
Whoop...back on topic...
When I brought my first fish home, I temp acclimated them, poured in a cup or two of water, and then just dumped the two clowns in. They nearly died. I can't say if it was because of the acclimation, or if they were sick to begin with, but they had a couple scary weeks in QT.
Since then I've acclimated all my corals and fish by the drip method for approximately an hour. So far it's been working out really well. I usually end up acclimating everything twice (once into QT, and then again two weeks later into the main tank).
i looked on the clamsdirect.com forum on how to acclimate the clams, and its the same way i acclimate fish, just temp acclimate and pour less than a cup of water every 15 minutes. but i hear that the clams are more sensitive, so was just wondering which one to do.
when you drip acclimate how many drips per second for an hour do you add?
and dont worry about your post, i wasnt offended or anything. i just know that sometimes in this hobby information changes so quickly and wanted to know what the right way of doing something was.
Siffy
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It's hard to give a X ml/15 minutes amount on acclimation. Unless you have the same amount of old water everytime. You're looking to get the water as close to the same as possible. A lot I've read is doubling the amount of water in an hour, but if you think about that you're really only 50% there.
I like really long acclimations on sensitive animals. With long drips you have to do something to keep the temp from dropping, so I use a 1 gallon bucket semi-submerged in my sump to keep the temp the same as the tank. I try to double the amount of water over an hour of dripping then remove half of the water from that acclimation container and let drip for another hour. Still that's only 75% the water they're going into. That's typically that's good enough, but I do the last 15 minutes of so of acclimation with the air line wide open until the bucket is overflowing.
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