Hi everyone
as the title states, I've got a question regarding the acclimation of snails. I picked up a couple of turbo snails and a bumblebee snail yesterday for my newly cycled Evolve8. I was planning on the purchase, as I wanted to test out drip acclimation on something a little less expensive (first foray into SW, coming over from FW planted). Before going to the LFS, I grabbed some airline tubing and a three-way valve to use for the drip. It worked pretty well, if a bit inconsistent. I was getting 2-4 drips per second. I used a heavily rinsed out empty milk jug (trust me, it was rinsed for five minutes) that I had cut the top off of as my holding area for them. Dripped for about 90 minutes, and then just dumped them in. I didn't realize until later how cool the milk jug water had gotten. For future reference, I was wondering if using the drip method again would be okay, but then adding one more acclimation step in at the end. Should I put the water and inhabitants back in the bag after I've balanced out the salinity/pH/etc and do the old school float tactic to balance out the temperatures?
For the record, the snails were moving around last night while I slept, and one is currently poking around the front of the glass. Other two haven't moved much since I cut the lights on (no timer until I get a new light) and the emerald crab I bought was moving around the front of the tank. He has since retreated into some hiding spot he found in the live rock.
as the title states, I've got a question regarding the acclimation of snails. I picked up a couple of turbo snails and a bumblebee snail yesterday for my newly cycled Evolve8. I was planning on the purchase, as I wanted to test out drip acclimation on something a little less expensive (first foray into SW, coming over from FW planted). Before going to the LFS, I grabbed some airline tubing and a three-way valve to use for the drip. It worked pretty well, if a bit inconsistent. I was getting 2-4 drips per second. I used a heavily rinsed out empty milk jug (trust me, it was rinsed for five minutes) that I had cut the top off of as my holding area for them. Dripped for about 90 minutes, and then just dumped them in. I didn't realize until later how cool the milk jug water had gotten. For future reference, I was wondering if using the drip method again would be okay, but then adding one more acclimation step in at the end. Should I put the water and inhabitants back in the bag after I've balanced out the salinity/pH/etc and do the old school float tactic to balance out the temperatures?
For the record, the snails were moving around last night while I slept, and one is currently poking around the front of the glass. Other two haven't moved much since I cut the lights on (no timer until I get a new light) and the emerald crab I bought was moving around the front of the tank. He has since retreated into some hiding spot he found in the live rock.
