How to drip acclimate???

[epond83]

Ok so i've read it's a good thing and i under stand water slowly drips into the bag... put how would one go about setting this up?

Thanks for the help

 

[Lotus]

You can do it with some airline hose with a clamp of some kind on it (to restrict flow) and then get a siphon from the tank into the bag or a container with the fish and fish store water.

I usually acclimate with a turkey baster. I put a baster full of tank water into the fish bag every 15 minutes for an hour, then net the fish out and put it in the tank.

 

[JWright]

I start a siphon running through some airline tubing, then fold over the end that's going in the bucket the new fish are in and secure it with a rubber band so I'm getting flow rate of ~ 1 drop/second.

~JW

 

[MissFishy]

I open up the fish bag and tuck it into the fish tank hood so that the bag is "floating" in the water. This helps make the water in the fish bag the same temperature as the fish tank. Next, every 15 mins or so I take a turkey baster of water out of the fish bag and throw it out (DON'T PUT IT IN THE TANK!), then put a turkey baster full of tank water into the bag. The goal is to slowly replace the fish bag water with tank water so that when you net out the new fish and add it to your tank, it won't be as much of a shock. This is especially important for large PH changes.