I'm wondering what all you folks think about using an airstone during the acclimation process. If you look at the acclimation procedures required by the on-line fish suppliers to qualify for their guarantees, one requires that you use an airstone during acclimation while another forbids you to use one.
I've always used one during a long (2-4 hours) drip acclimation for a delicate critter such as a shrimp, but not when I was doing a shorter acclimation for say a perc or a damsel.
One of the sites says that an airstone will raise the PH (and thus the amonia)dramatically. I will usually check basic water parameters before acclimation, but I've never measured during, so I don't know if this is true.
Any thoughts on this?
I've always used one during a long (2-4 hours) drip acclimation for a delicate critter such as a shrimp, but not when I was doing a shorter acclimation for say a perc or a damsel.
One of the sites says that an airstone will raise the PH (and thus the amonia)dramatically. I will usually check basic water parameters before acclimation, but I've never measured during, so I don't know if this is true.
Any thoughts on this?
