How do you acclimated your new sps?

[snipersps]

I will like to know how you guys acclimate your new sps and for how much time, specialty those sps that coming from different city state to you , and how you acclimate the sps that coming really stress out?
Are you dripping them and how much time.

 

[hybridazn]

I drip acclimate everything for about 2 hours. I will inspect the frags and remount them on fresh plugs before going in the tank.

 

[Mike J.]

I don't drip acclimate corals. I dip them in Coral RX, some use Bayer Insecticide, and then rinse them in clean tank water. Then put them in quarantine for at least a week for observation, then into the display where they will get acclimated to the light gradually.

 

[robbrouse]

How do you remove them from the plug?

 

[Jeffanator]

I dip in iodine 5 min then Bayer 5 min

 

[bct15]

Here is how i do it

https://www.reef2reef.com/forums/showthread.php?t=124103

 

[snipersps]

Thank you for your quick response I asked how to acclimate the corals because right now I'm dealing with a vender and I want to know if I did something wrong let me explain to you how I acclimate them its very simple when I got the new corals especially if they come from a different state first I inspect the corals to see how much stress they have and from there I fiqure it out for example corals that arrive in perfect conditions like no stress I dip them bayer and then i drip the corals for about 45 mins and the ones that come in bad conditions I drip water onto the coral I don't dip them in water because dipping them makes them more stressed And I've been doing this for many years I have many years of experience and this has worked for me and the thing is the vender told me that I didn't do an appropriate acclimation the coral I got from the vender arrived in medium conditions like RTN on different spots all over the coral so I dripped it for 45 mins and later on it died so do you guys think I did something wrong?

 

[spspirate]

Maybe not. I think you did what a lot of us would do Hugo. Did you take a pic of the frags when they came in? When you say RTN spots all over the coral your not talking about white bite marks like maybe AEFW are you.

 

[snipersps]

Maybe not. I think you did what a lot of us would do Hugo. Did you take a pic of the frags when they came in? When you say RTN spots all over the coral your not talking about white bite marks like maybe AEFW are you.

Yes like that but I know that they weren't bites from AEFW Because I inspected it with magnifine glass and the dead spots was because the acro was stressed you know they usually heal later in the day but this one died later in the day

 

[spspirate]

Did you take pics to show the vendor? What was the water temp?

 

[snipersps]

Yes I did take pics when the coral arrive but I didn't make any complains with him at that moment because I thought that the coral was going to recuperate later on the day but to my surprise when I got home from work it was even worse also what I noticed this morning the cold pack that he used was homemade and very small so maybe the water temperature was hot and the coral got to stressed and then died

 

[Chameleon]

sorry to hear this. hopefully the vendor tries to work with you. I acclimate out of the water for 5min then into a bayer dip made with my tank water. then rinse in my tank then plop in

 

[bct15]

I don't see anything wrong with what you did.

There is about 100 different ways to acclimated and introduce new livestock to our system. You used the method that has been working for you for years on a coral that was in poor health when you received it. The coral died shortly after, most likely from stress of shipping. There was nothing that could be done, no matter what acclimation technique was used.

 

[mylittlejade]

Dip, inspect, rinse in salt water, and in the tank they go.

 

[BAUCE]

Thank you for your quick response I asked how to acclimate the corals because right now I'm dealing with a vender and I want to know if I did something wrong let me explain to you how I acclimate them its very simple when I got the new corals especially if they come from a different state first I inspect the corals to see how much stress they have and from there I fiqure it out for example corals that arrive in perfect conditions like no stress I dip them bayer and then i drip the corals for about 45 mins and the ones that come in bad conditions I drip water onto the coral I don't dip them in water because dipping them makes them more stressed And I've been doing this for many years I have many years of experience and this has worked for me and the thing is the vender told me that I didn't do an appropriate acclimation the coral I got from the vender arrived in medium conditions like RTN on different spots all over the coral so I dripped it for 45 mins and later on it died so do you guys think I did something wrong?

Master of keeping SPS and run-on sentences :rofl:

 

[greg1786]

I do what most others have said but i also like to temp acclimate them as well first by floating the bag for 20 minutes