Acclamation Times

[Michelle50]

Hello,

I made some purchases for my reef tank off of the web. I ordered two leathers (Toadstool Yellow & Finger Leather), some Zoanthid gold button polyps, a cleaner shrimp, and a Blue Linckia Starfish. I know that I have to acclamate the linckia slowly and over a long period of time. Exactly how long would you do it? Also, being new to corals i'd like some advice on acclamating the other things I mentioned.

Thanks,
Michelle

 

[esmithiii]

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I know that I have to acclamate the linckia slowly and over a long period of time. Exactly how long would you do it?

Others may disagree but to me 6 hour or so is plenty. If you have a refractometer, I would check the salinity of the water it came in and your tank water as well. I would allow 2 hours for each 0.0010 difference. A steady drip is best.

As for the other items, I would say 90 minutes should be enough.

 

[ZigZagZombie]

I acclimated my blue linckia about 6 hours. I floated it in the tank and added a little water every 20 min or so. Happy to say it has been doing good.

Thats what i did, i know other people do things different. Good luck.....

 

[Michelle50]

Thanks alot for the advice!

 

[Yellowboy]

drip water slowly into the linkias container until it is full dump out half and repaet until the salinities are identical. Drip slowly and he'll be fine