Wife picked out a maroon clown

[bigdaddyadam]

I have never drip acclimated and I have read numerous times that it takes at least 5 hours for animals to adjust to new pH so it won't help, only exception would be a VERY slow long drip like for a starfish or other extremely sensative animal.

still, I suppose it couldn't hurt, just might not really help either, as long as salinity and temp are closely matched you should be fine. and if the LFS is very far off the 1.26 mark, enough to make a diffence, then I won't be shopping there again anyway.

 

[sdsheeks]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=6836035#post6836035 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by bigdaddyadam
I have never drip acclimated and I have read numerous times that it takes at least 5 hours for animals to adjust to new pH so it won't help, only exception would be a VERY slow long drip like for a starfish or other extremely sensative animal.

still, I suppose it couldn't hurt, just might not really help either, as long as salinity and temp are closely matched you should be fine. and if the LFS is very far off the 1.26 mark, enough to make a diffence, then I won't be shopping there again anyway.

Most of the LFS i've been too keep their water at 1.021 I try to keep mine at 1.025 or 1.026

Dave

 

[Dubbin1]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=6836100#post6836100 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by sdsheeks
Most of the LFS i've been too keep their water at 1.021 I try to keep mine at 1.025 or 1.026

Dave

I checked what Gary had his at and I was surprised that it was at 1.025.

 

[bigdaddyadam]

really, most I have been to are close to 1.26, I would be less likely to shop somewhere that keep salinty so low, 1.21? that is way too low

 

[Dubbin1]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=6836193#post6836193 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by bigdaddyadam
really, most I have been to are close to 1.26, I would be less likely to shop somewhere that keep salinty so low, 1.21? that is way too low

Adam that is just fine for a FO tank. I kept my fowlr tank at 1.021. Thats perfectly normal.

 

[Dubbin1]

Oh and I also noticed that most stores have there sg that low.

 

[bigdaddyadam]

hmmm, I can't see any benefit to that

I suppose it wouldn't hurt much for a FO tank, but a reef? oh well, who knows

 

[selgado]

Some stores practice on-going hypo salinity for their fish systems as a disease reducer/preventative.

 

[bigdaddyadam]

I see that as an excuse for poor sg levels, it's been shown that to achieve any hypo benefits you have to go all the way down round about 1.010, so 1.21 would have no real effect from the reading I have done.

 

[OneThunder]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=6836591#post6836591 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by selgado
Some stores practice on-going hypo salinity for their fish systems as a disease reducer/preventative.

Wow, I was thinking the same thing as I was reading ....

 

[sdsheeks]

Update on the clown. He is doing very well. I fed him a little bit of shrimp today and he ate every bit of it. He seems to have made a relationship with my powerhead. He likes to swim against the flow and at night he sleeps behind it. Cute little guy or girl....

Dave