acclimating fish

Hey everyone haven’t posted in over a year but I am hoping back on the forum more and more slowly but surely. I’m going to be getting in a quarantined batch of fish and it includes a bonded pair of copperbands. In the past I introduced my copperband without an acclimation box allowing my...

Mushroom Cages, Hang on a mushroom boxes, frag legs and more! Feel free to send a message and I’d be happy to assist.

Mushroom Cages, Hang on a mushroom boxes, frag legs and more! Feel free to send a message and I’d be happy to assist.

My sphinx and peacock blennies are breathing very fast after i added them about 13 hours ago. Acclimation was kind of rushed ( there was salinity and 3 C temperature difference) because the water they were in was really bad and needed to be replaced asap. Is this normal acclimation shock or...

Hey everyone, I just used this old critter cage for my acclimation box and will be keeping my new mimic tang in here until the big mean powder brown calms down! Holding the acclimation box against the glass using my scraper! The PB is very mad right now but hopefully they calm down!

I recently purchased a 65 gallon Red Sea aquarium on Offerup. I currently have a 32 gallon Biocube stocked with 4 fish and I am planning on transferring these fish into the new tank. However, the nitrates in this new tank are fairly higher than my Biocube (40 ppm versus 10 ppm). Is this too big...

Looking for any and all advice. I added a Coral Beauty 10 days ago to my 5 & a half month old system. The fishy had been at a trusted LFS for about 3 weeks & was eating mysis & pellets. I can not get this fish to show even a remote interest in food. She hangs out in the very top left corner of...

I am thinking about getting a female blue star leopard wrasse from liveaquaria. I have a 55g with about a 2 inch sand bed. On liveaquaria it says that they are expert only, i read that some say that is only because they don’t do well with the shipping process? So if i get one, should i...

Any tips or suggestions to acclimate a fish from the divers den? Or is it just like any other fish I’ve ever purchased? 1,) float the bag for temp (15mins or so) 2,) Open the bag add a small cup of tank water to off 3,) Then drip acclimate for 30-60 mins or until the salinity is the same. I’ve...

So I’ve done a lot of googling, and everything I can find is all about acclimating freshwater mollies to salt, but I can’t find anything about the opposite. I was setting up my saltwater aquarium and wanted some cheap cyclers for my tank, so I decided to go with mollies because I read that...

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