Originally Posted by
Flricordia
http:///forum/post/2579407
I myself would never guarantee a coral that was drip acclimated after being shipped. Worst thing you can do. Corals do not need to be acclimated by drip method. They do not respire like fish and mobile inverts.
They do secrete a protective slime when disturbed and in a shipping bag that is being opened from dark to light enviroment and a new water chemistry being dripped in will cause the already taxed coral to secrete more of its already exhausted protective slime so that when it is finally placed into the new enviroment it may not have the abitlity to protect itself any further but lend itself to all the new pathogens, parameters of the new enviroment.
OPEN BAG AND PLACE YOUR NEW CORAL IN OR TAKE A CHANCE ON LOOSING IT BY DRIPPING NEW WATER INTO ITS ALREADY ph imballanced, nitrate induced slime saturated little cup of water.
To those that drip acclimate your corals-seriously, have you ever heard of a healthy coral sucumbing from not being drip acclimated? I will bet you HAVE heard of corals dieing shortly after being drip acclimated.
But I would suggest that corals are shipped with no air, in enough water to gixe at least 5+ times the size of the caral and add carbon pellets to the bag to help with toxins.
Well ***! You mean to tell me that this may have been why I lost my beautiful brain. I'm agonna go kick the snot out of somebody. How come I never knew this? Why oh why didn't somebody tell me
? How come I'm always the last to know? Where have I been ~ living under a log I guess?! Thanks guys for clearing this up ~ is it posted as a sticky in the corals forum or somewhere else?
05xrunner I'm sorry for your pain ~ it really frustrates me when somebody ruins it for everyone else.