Kitty Kat... I Lost Where Your Acclimation Process Steps When

[eaglesaquarium]

KK,

If you don't mind, would you mind explaining your acclimation process again. It was awesome, but I can't seem to remember which thread that was in. I think it would benefit others to see as well, which is why I didn't just send you a PM.



Thanks so much!!!

 

[tanksalot]

KK,

If you don't mind, would you mind explaining your acclimation process again. It was awesome, but I can't seem to remember which thread that was in. I think it would benefit others to see as well, which is why I didn't just send you a PM.



Thanks so much!!!

Not Kitty Kat, but I do remember where she wrote about acclimation - it was in Gelt's fishless cycle log

Very interesting, I must say....and bears rather less resemblance to my own practices than I care to admit...

 

[StandbySetting]

The method is known as drip acclimatising, it's used mainly for marine fish but I do advise also that you do it for freshwater fish, I also recommend that you do not add LFS water to your tank as Kitty Kat does, it's one of the biggest fish keeping sins, all it takes is one pathogen to infect one fish, and then it will reproduce and spread.

I soak my nets in a 1 part chlorine bleach to 19 parts water solution constantly, before I use them I do rinse the nets in weak Sodium Thiosulphate solution to neutralise the chlorine, you can do this yourself by adding dechlorinator in an excess to some water and then rinsing your nets with it.

 

[eaglesaquarium]

Not Kitty Kat, but I do remember where she wrote about acclimation - it was in Gelt's fishless cycle log

Very interesting, I must say....and bears rather less resemblance to my own practices than I care to admit...

That's the one I was talking about! Thanks...

 

[OldMan47]

I also drip all of my new fish. A simple overhand knot in the air line lets me easily adjust the drip rate and an old used U-shaped piece of filter tubing makes it easy to avoid pinching the air line in the tank hood while giving the air line a secure place to rest. The tubing never falls out of the tank, a problem that I once had, and the flow does not get pinched off by the hood slowly collapsing the tubing. Once I have moved a gallon or so water into the acclimation bucket, I figure that the fish are in a container that is more than 80% tank water so I can simply net them out and put them into the tank. I do not use a heater in my acclimation bucket because the water will not be in that bucket long enough to change temperature very much.

Reminder to self: get a picture so that people know what you mean.

 

[eaglesaquarium]

I also drip all of my new fish. A simple overhand knot in the air line lets me easily adjust the drip rate and an old used U-shaped piece of filter tubing makes it easy to avoid pinching the air line in the tank hood while giving the air line a secure place to rest. The tubing never falls out of the tank, a problem that I once had, and the flow does not get pinched off by the hood slowly collapsing the tubing. Once I have moved a gallon or so water into the acclimation bucket, I figure that the fish are in a container that is more than 80% tank water so I can simply net them out and put them into the tank. I do not use a heater in my acclimation bucket because the water will not be in that bucket long enough to change temperature very much.

Reminder to self: get a picture so that people know what you mean.

Thanks OM47... I wasn't looking forward to explaining to my wife why I needed a second heater just for a temporary housing of a fish in a bucket.

 

[Gelt]

I used the drip acclimation process for both my corys and Cardianls, noticed that they were less stressed and settled quicker., i would recommend this before adding any fish.

Also don't switch the lights on , keep the room light down and use a dark bucket or container , i used a cheap 17w sealed heater just to take the edge off any cooling of the water.