to acclimate corals or not to acclimate corals

[Koh23]

I never put bag with fish or coral in tank....

Dirty bag, who knows what it have on outer side....no thanx....

Small containers, coral with water in there, then slowly add some of my water over some time, depends of temperature......

After that, coral/fish in tank, water in sink..... No problems

 

[ReefRondo]

Float, dip and done.

 

[Aquajamin]

just saw a youtube video of reef builders and he got a box of corals and didnt acclimate the corals......says he never did before......was thinking if anybody else does this and have i been doing wrong all this time-----if fish can suffer from temp shock cant corals?

i float bags for 15-20 mins

dip for 3-10 mins

put in tank---yes no quaritine i should know better but havent had those problems

I float the bags for 15-20 minutes too. I also do a quick drip acclimation until the water volume is at least doubled. After that I will put the corals in a QT for a couple of days before dipping so the corals aren't stressed out.