Can Pods Suffer Osmotic Shock?

[livinlifeinBKK]

My fish always come in water a good 10 ppt lower than my tank water and since the fish I'll be getting tomorrow is a pod eater who will inhabit his own small tank I'm concerned the pods might die when I transfer the rock to the new tank from my old one (i generally match the QT tank to that of the fish's bag water to prevent osmotic shock but since he's gonna be the only inhabitant I'll be introducing the pods at the same time since i don't want him to starve)...will this sudden salinity difference kill the pods?

 

[blaxsun]

10ppt is quite a difference, but the pods should generally be fine.

 

[livinlifeinBKK]

10ppt is quite a difference, but the pods should generally be fine.

Maybe I'll put the fish in the tank and then slowly raise the salinity over a couple hours or so...that way it won't be quite as much of a shock

 

[bushdoc]

Maybe I'll put the fish in the tank and then slowly raise the salinity over a couple hours or so...that way it won't be quite as much of a shock

Raising salinity over couple of hours is not a good idea. You can drop salinity faster, but raising it is better done over longer period of time.

 

[livinlifeinBKK]

Raising salinity over couple of hours is not a good idea. You can drop salinity faster, but raising it is better done over longer period of time.

I wasn't planning on raising it the full 10 ppt, just 5 ppt or so to make it easier on the pods to adapt to the sudden rise in salinity

 

[PotatoPig]

They can live in borderline industrial ammonia, I wouldn’t worry about acclimating them to the tank.