Do you acclimate corals?

[Cherub]

Just curious how many people actually acclimate their corals to water. I know light acclimation is a must but do you really do a 20 minute drip acclimation? I personally just do a coral dip then stick it in my tank. I read about these people doing drip acclimation or using a turkey baster to introduce water slowly.

Only one I ever lost was that red planet that I'm still convinced was the cut but yeah...

 

[the_fish_man]

The only thing I do is let it ajust for temp for like 5 minutes. Never lost a thing.

 

[chrislorentz]

I drip everything

 

[Cherub]

The only thing I do is let it ajust for temp for like 5 minutes. Never lost a thing.

Yeah I guess I do the temp too. I float frags in my sump before doing CoralRX

 

[the_fish_man]

Yep the only thing I will probably drip is clams. Sometimes I do add a bit of water to the bag for very expensive corals but that is very rare when I even do that.

 

[MattL]

Dip then in, is what i do.

 

[djkms]

Temp, Dip, Dunk

 

[KhensuRa]

I do a temp dip all the time and sometimes I do a coral RX dip. Just depends really...

If the coral looks like poo than I baby it. Or if I get it from a tank that looks like poo then I baby it.

 

[Ryan@FRA]

i acclimate my sps for salinity only, as long as the temp of the coral is within 3 degrees of the tank. I don't acclimate most of my lagoon critters, i assume they are used to temp and salinity changes. Same goes with fish. If they are super delicate like copperbands, i tend to temp/salinity acclimate them them. Clownfish get thrown in the pool.

 

[Cherub]

I was just curious. I've gotten a decent collection started. Up to 48 frags in a matter of 2 months. So I guess I just wanted to make sure I was doing it right.

 

[nadking]

Float for 5 and then dip, no real need to do anything else unless the salinity is crazy different. Always dip, pests are no good.