How do you acclimating from low salinity to high salinity question

[Cancun]

Hi! Okay here goes....say your DT or QT is 1.024 to 1.025...and you buy a fish and the LFS salinity is 1.017 to 1.020. I heard that you shouldn't raise the salinity more than a half point to a point per day. I was also told you could put the fish in a bucket and drip it with a fast drip over a few hours until it matches your tank salinity...and then put the fish in.

The reason I am asking is that I have no luck dripping a fish from low salinity to my salinity over a few hours....the poor critter lives 3 to 4 days...and thats it....I am talking when buying from a LFS not online...I never buy on line. I like to see the fish in person and make sure its eating.

What do you all do? Thanks in advance!

 

[jeff240gallon]

How do you acclimating from low salinity to high salinity question

I can already hear everyone yelling at me..

I literally just acclimate the fish, coral, or whatever it may be by putting the bag in my dt water to get the temperature the same, after a few minutes I open the bag... Let the dt water into the bag, then let the fish swim out. In the case of a coral I just do the same process but take the coral out of the bag slowly.

After temp is adjusted the process takes about two minutes. A lot of people spend a very long time acclimating with drip method etc and... If it works for them great but I've literally only had issues once with a lavender mushroom.

Again, I can hear everyone disagreeing with me....

If I buy a fish or coral that's already been through qt for a lengthy time, then I see no reason to qt. Dealt with ich couple of times but that's it. So for those wondering, yes I do put fish and coral directly into my dt.

I buy from both lfs but mainly live aquaria

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[Pife]

If you QT lower the salinity of your QT to that of the fish and let evaporation raise it for you.

Keep your QT water salinity low so you can add salt to quickly raise it to that of the store as you tempature acclimate the fish.

 

[Nanook]

This is an oldie but goodie:

IME, best practice is:

1. Put all new fish (or almost all) into a quarantine tank!
2. Set salinity in the QT to about 1.020 and fill tank 3/4 full; most places you buy fish will be at 1.020 or below (DD is an exception).
3. Open the top of the bag, and float in QT for 15 mins. to equalize temperature.
4. While bag is floating, check salinity of shipping water and adjust tank to match by adding RO/DI.
5. Pour fish into QT tank.
6. Add 1.025 water to the QT slowly over the course of a few days until the QT tank is full; if you have an ATO on the QT tank, add some salt to the reservoir. Ultimately you want to match the salinity of your main display.

I used to lose fish periodically to protracted drip acclimations, but since implementing the above steps I have not lost a single one during the acclimation process.

 

[curtcherry]

This is an oldie but goodie:

THIS as described works great for me. I stopped all that drip acclimation nonsense!

If you are talking about a QT, let water evaporate (if that is an option otherwise make a small water change every couple of days) then top off with 1.025 until you get to the desired salinity.