Acclimation

[hultman]

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?

 

[jessie]

i know one online site says to use one, and they have a long acclimation time with a larger volume of water being transfered. i think the deal there is that there will be enough water not to cause any problems. but like you said another says dont use it, but when i read their acclimation procedure, they were using alot less water, only changing about a bag of water rather than quadroupleing( i need a spell check on here) the water like the first online vender. i dotn know but maybe its the volume of water that your dealing with, smaller volume = more pollution, but thats just MO.