Drip acclamation

[gliderjohn]

Originally Posted by Al Mc
http:///forum/post/2501943
The reason I have gotten away from the floating bags is to avoid putting any of the water that coomes with the animal into the my tank. Worried about disease....Also, just for sake of discussion I should note that everything goes in a QT tank for at least 3 weeks (usuall4-5 weeks) before it is acclimated into my DT.
Bag way you describe definately works.....I just don't do that anymore....The way I do it is more time consuming and requires extra heater/buckets, etc...but I believe itr is safer. Just a metter of opinion.

So you 1st acclimate your fish to the QT and then again when transferring them the DT?

 

[jpc763]

Originally Posted by Al Mc
http:///forum/post/2501206
I was troubled by the acclimation temperature issue so what I do to try to account for it is to put about 1-2 gallons of QT (DT if no QT) water into a 5 gallon bucket (old salt bucket) with a heater and thermometer. Once the temp is similar to the QT water I put a piece of LR from my QT into a 2 gallon plastic pitcher and put the fish to be acclimated along with about 2 cups of the water it came in inti the pitcher and put it in the 5 gallon bucket. The rock keeps the pitcher from floating/tipping and I drip acclimate. If the pitcher overflow I do not care. I discard all the water in the end and add the fish to the QT. This keeps the temp very stable.
I do the same thing. A bucket inside of a bucket, with a heater and a thermo in the outside bucket. I like the rock idea

as I have to make sure my inside bucket does not tip. Thanks!

 

[jpc763]

Originally Posted by Gliderjohn
http:///forum/post/2502142
So you 1st acclimate your fish to the QT and then again when transferring them the DT?
To answer this question (as I do a similar thing), yes they get acclimated to the QT then acclimated again to the DT. I have done that for the past 4 fish with no trouble.

 

[florida joe]

Originally Posted by Gliderjohn
http:///forum/post/2502142
So you 1st acclimate your fish to the QT and then again when transferring them the DT?
No matter how close you think your water parameters are between lfs, QT and DT I would definitely acclimate at each transfer

 

[al mc]

Originally Posted by Gliderjohn
http:///forum/post/2502142
So you 1st acclimate your fish to the QT and then again when transferring them the DT?
Yes, unless I have done a recnt water change where I put the DT water into the QT. I would only advise using DT water as the water change source if you are sure your DT is parasite free (hopefully mine is?!?). If I have done a recent water change and the pH, SG and temp are the same in the DT and QT I would consider just changing them over without acclimation, but I usually do re drip acclimate them. I figure if I have spent all that time and money to properly QT a fish what is another 2 hours of drip acclimation.

 

[gliderjohn]

Good points! Makes very good sense.