2 day drip acclimating new anemone?

[Christopher Parish]

I have a new Black Widow anemone being delivered tomorrow and have thought about how to QT it without putting in my QT.

I just finished up QTing a firefish and sanitized afterwards. It’s only been running one day with water changed from my DT. I’d rather not put the BT in and chance it attaching to something and being a pain to get out.

I also have a .5 gallon Reef Gently Acclimate and am thinking about drip acclimating (slowest possible with blue accli-stick all the way in) for 2 or 3 days.

Is this a bad idea?

Thanks

 

[Marlon C]

Dang brother 2 days. I rarely acclimate and everything turns out fine. I say just do normal acclimation process

 

[motortrendz]

I would just acclimate normally.

 

[Halo_003]

I do 30 minutes, verify salinity and temp are equal, then in they go. So far no lost BTAs that I can attribute to that.

 

[KrisReef]

I would be afraid the bag water was filled with vomit and excrement that the nem eliminated during transportation. I would want to get it into clean water sooner than 2 hours.

If there was ever copper in the QT I wouldn't put an invert in there.

My 2 cents.

 

[Texas_Reefer]

Just had a rainbow anemone delivered last week, temp acclimated then drip acclimated for 30-45 min straight in the tank afterwards with no problem. Well besides getting it to settle in where I wanted.

 

[D-Nak]

I don't know how you'd manage temperature even if you were to acclimate it for 2 days.

For all of my nems, I just acclimate for 30 minutes, if that. Sometimes I just remove them and dump the right into the tank.

 

[AC1211]

I give nems an hour

 

[Katrina71]

Temp acclimate for 30, verify salinity +1

 

[SDK]

Agree with the above. I think the top priority for an anemone is to get it settled as quickly as possible in a mature tank under good lighting.

A too long quarantine is just another delay spent in sub optimal conditions...

 

[kkiel02]

I think the original post is about trying to quarantine the nem. I did mine for the 78 days just like any coral, fish or invert. I’d just pick up a 10g if you are worried about the fish qt having copper. I don’t put any fish in my coral and invert qt.

 

[chizerbunoi]

I agree with above and think the OP knows what they are doing. But going to add info for other new reefers.

It’s very important to keep an eye on new anemones. If it declines it could use treatment with antibiotics and be saved. That helps if already in quarantine. But the biggest worry is if it starts to melt and dissolve then it could nuke your tank. Or it could float into a powerhead and get chopped up.

When acclimating the 3 important factors are temperature, PH and salinity. acclimating matches these parameters as close as possible.

If the anemone was shipped to you then it’s been in the waste water for much too long. So you want to get it out of that water sooner. So no need for a two day drip even in quarantine. water changes on the quarantine tank using the main display water is a good way to match the water parameters.

one of the biggest issues with anemones not shipping well especially from the distribution channel is because food tots inside the anemone. Then it

a bad bacterial infection and hence a decline of the anemone.