How I Acclimate Freshwater Fish and Inverts and Why-Tuesday Tip
Betta 8 years ago 37,208 views
There are tons of ways to acclimate, I have found to have the best survival rate and the least amount of stress to my aquatic friends following the method outlined in this video. Come see me at the Big Fish Deal: http://capitalcichlids.org/aquamania/ Visit my facebook: https://www.facebook.com/msjinkzd/ Visit my website for upcoming speaking engagements and my current stocklist: http://msjinkzd.com/
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Once done with the quarantine, shall I just drop them in my display tank (with both tanks having the same temperature setting)?
Thank you for your time, I have been watching your videos, and you are very helpful.
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Not trying to question your expertise or anything! Just want the best for my little fishies like you and probably everyone else here.
And if anyone else reading this has anything to share on this matter too, by all means, please do.
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if so do i still leave the lights off for a day and not feed for a day?
if i could do this it would make life so much easier.
Love your channel Rachel, I'm learning a lot. Been wanting to add some micro crabs to my invert tank and I'm for sure going to buy from you.
Great job on the videos btw...keep em coming
http://www.americanaquariumproducts.com/Aquarium_Disease.html#quarantine
i didn't want to dirt my whole tank so i use little plastic containers with aquarium safe dirt and a thin layer of small gravel. amazon swords do well for me and they grow fast. fish LOVE plants. (except some fish tend to eat the plants)
"Ecology of the Planted Aquarium: A Practical Manual and Scientific Treatise for the Home Aquarist". I found it very interesting!
You should probably swap notes with Ted Judy - he has videos showing his unpacking process and is floating hundreds of bags of fish from Peru for what seems like long chunks of time before they're released - though of course the bags are still sealed so the CO2 isnt gassing off. Even so keeping them inactive in the dark would probably be a better move until time for release.
Thanks again Rachel!
For e.g. I have a fish in my community tank thats about neutral pH that I want to move to a breeding tank that's around pH 6. Just to take pH as an example, though there are bound to be other huge differences because the tanks have totally different substrates, one sand and one gravel over organic soil and peat and very heavily planted. How do I minimise stressing the fish? Plop and drop?
I hope you don't take my comment as an insult, I only wish you the utmost success.
-Chris
Also, having just read the Fish and Invertebrate Culture (which has two parts: how fish affect water and how water affects fish) I can attest to the validity of what you're saying about the CO2, ammonium, O2 causing the ammonium to become ammonia, etc.
Quick question for some clarification though. Is this still your recommended method for saltwater? They're a bit more sensitive, but the philosophy is essentially the same (and the chemical reactions ARE THE SAME), so I'd think the "plop and drop" method may be best in saltwater as well, especially if you use common sense and don't get inverts or fish that are too different from your water. Am I right, or am I missing something?
I mean, I know you work with freshwater and not saltwater, but do you have any thoughts on this?
Just did your method on some guppies I got from a seller on PR Aquatics forum and they're doing great. Not yet eating, but still doing better than I think they would be if I had drip acclimated. Very happy you posted this when you did. Thank you so much!
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I'm now considering an all purpose acclimating method where I'll immediately bathe the fish in a methylene blue/tank water solution for 20m, then API pond salt bath for 30m and afterwards straight to a quarantine tank for at least 2wks. I've recently used MB to cure a horrendous outbreak of ich and it's now my BMF (Best Med Forever)!
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That would be really cool!
Let him imitate other people's "methods" and once the consequences hit him...let him deal with them front and center. Personal experience/mistakes can be a BLUNT AND EFFECTIVE TEACHER!
Pardon me, I know you queried Rachel, but I just couldn't avoid the unsolicited advice today, Thank You.