Drip acclimation question???

[bat21]

Advice I was given previously was that if the fish is from your LFS, you can take your time with acclimation since there hasn't been much time for ammonia to accumulate in the bag. But if you ordered online, and the fish has been in the bag for many hours, then getting it out of that bag as soon as possible is the most important thing.

 

[ca1ore]

Bought from the same place. Just one of the fish was in hypo-salinity. They run hypo, copper and prazipro.

OK, but that isn't how you posed your question .....

 

[las]

OK, but that isn't how you posed your question

Nevermind

 

[AdamSabina]

Made a small video on this today.

http://youtu.be/D3maWFivSQM

 

[ericarenee]

I do a but different then most of above but kinda the same.

From over night shipping
I get the fish out of the bag into a 1 gallon tank. with the water in the bag plus about 1/4 more water from tank.I will add some reef prime to the water and Drop at a steady DRIP DRIP DRIP. Kinda fast rate until the water Doubles..
Then i will slow the rate and remove half the water and double it again.. the whole proscess is now about 30- 40 minutes..
I Will agree the Ammonia is the big issue..
I have not lost any fish like this that looked somewhat healthy when opening the bag.
From LOCAL FISH STORE. i will temp and Salinity and put in the QT Tank
Our LFS i buy the most fish from. Has several systems. One the put new arrivals.. One they keep more delicate fish. and then one for OLD STOCK FISH. Each fish has a date of arrival card. I go on Mondays and look at the old stock tank.. There the fish are always perfectly healthy and will only buy if the arrival date is 3 week old..and i remember the fish from before . I ask them to feed it and watch it for a bit each time. IF I Am lucky and it makes it 3 weeks in there. that is 5 weeks in the store.
Then i buy it and Put it right in my Display usually.. Never had a issue Like this. I WISH MOre lfs Would Date there fish and use this method..
The odd part is its a way for them to keep new stock not keep the fish healthier..

 

[firemountain]

This is the one of the advantages of having a QT. Pre adjusting the QT to the same SG of the bag water makes for an easy and stress free transfer.