Acclimate together?

[crooper]

I just ordered a reef package from this site, plus a couple of urchins. All specify an acclimation time of 1+ hours. Can I acclimate all the crabs, snails, shrimp, and urchins in the same bucket, or should I separate them? How long should I actually acclimate them for?

 

[j-bird]

I would suggest seperating them. When I got my reef package off of this site, I acclimated all the snails together in their own bucket, each crab type in their own bucket, etc... All lived and are doing well, I deffinetely would not acclimate all together, JMO.

 

[j-bird]

Ohh yeah, I would acclimate them for 2+ hours to be safe. I take a two gallon bucket and drip acclimate them, approx. 1 drip every 2-3 seconds, I just let it sit and fill up the bucket, ussually takes about 2-3 hours.