"Acclimation"

[omard]

GREAT THREAD...!

Gained much from...went down to LFS today at noon and brought home a new little "clown" to try out on...(have been promising kids a "Nemo" since day one...)

Kind of combined "ideas" above and used system that should work great on into future...

single drip line (with knot - until I can come up with a control valve) - into a smaller container with new fish and water he arrived in...which was sitting in larger container to collect "overflow" from smaller...ran for about 45 minutes - removing about 1/3 of smaller container's water when it filled to overflowing...netted him and put him in tank where he happily started scooting about checking out his new surroundings...no sign of any initial new environment "shock" at all.

No chance for shipping water to slop into tank...

Will just let run longer for inverts as Phil suggests...

"Nemo" seem to be quite "happy" after about 8 hrs in new residence, though probably quite lonely after coming from "busy" tank at LFS...will wait a week and get him/her a "mate...

THX again,

OmarD

[omard]

PS...Matt, "dealer" gave me a "replacement" "colt" frag to replace my earlier loss....it too appears to be doing fine...(so far)...nice of him..

Rgds,

OmarD

[Jason McKenzie]

Phil5613
That's a great set up. One question.. How do you deal with temperature. Usually when you bring something home depending on the time of year the temp will have change in the bag water. Do you just rely on your replacement water to slowly bring the temp in-line?

J

[Jason McKenzie]

OmarD,
Please have kids rename clown fish

Just kidding [smiley=juggle2.gif] [smiley=laugh.gif] [smiley=joker.gif] [smiley=jester.gif] [smiley=loco.gif] [smiley=smokin.gif]

J

[karlas]

one store i go to saves there shipping boxes the insulated ones. when you buy fish they give you a box to transfer your fish in especially if its really hot or cold out and i just save my box for next time. one of those styrofoam coolers would work the same maby from walmart or kmart would work just as good. if the box is inside it pretty much remains the room temp it was in.

[Phil5613]

Matt yes I always have top off water(plain di) and water change water (di/1.023) on hand I make my own di with a kent 200gpd system and kep both moving and airated(sp?) constantly.
Jakets I do rely on the drip system for temp and so far no trouble.
omrad cool to see adaptation after you use it for a while let me know what you think. I prefer minwe because it does the work for me I just get to sit there watching the tank and the acclimation process.
Thanks,
Phil

[Phil5613]

sorry to all I have fat fingers and don't type well. I live for spell check! lol

[Matt Rogers]

Don't sweat it Phil and thanks for the details on your technique.

@karla - awesome cooler tip! [smiley=thumbs_up1.gif]
@omar - that's cool he gave you another colt, keep me updated..


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matt