Acclimating new fish to aquarium

ina1032

ina1032

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I'm not sure if this has been posted, but I sure thought it was a wonderful flash demo of how to acclimate new fish to your salt tank. Wanted to share with everyone. If anyone has anything to add or revise on this process, please feel free to share, I'm all about learning new things.:read:

http://www.saltwaterfish.com/site_11_03/acclimation.php
 
Thats a neat little flash. I just leave the fish in the bag when acclimating and let the bag float in the aquarium so I know its the same temp. I just take a little water out and put a little in for an hour or more. The videos acclimation is much better though.
 
I have been acclimating my new purple linckia that I got today for the past 2 hours...I have been putting in a little bit of tank water in it every five minutes and after 2 hours it got full and I emptied half the bag and I'm repeating...I will probably repeat it twice before I take it out and put it into the tank.
 
Could you poke a hole in the bag while it floats so you don't have to keep putting water in it every so often?
 
mcsassy said:
Could you poke a hole in the bag while it floats so you don't have to keep putting water in it every so often?
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No because you do not want the 'store' water in your tank. You need to be careful of acclimating your purple linkia too long also. Make sure that the temp is staying the same.
 
Ya floating in the bag, putting a little water in every 5 minutes...I put it in the tank already...one of its feet started going bad while it was in the bag. = (

Between the time of putting in a little more water (few minutes) I went and saw a bubble forming at the tip of the foot so I called my LFS and they told me to just put it in the tank then right away...I did and my blue spot puffer came and ate the bubble on the foot!!!!!!

It's walking around now and getting around pretty fine...hopefully it doesn't get worse...even though I am not too optimistic that it won't.
 
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