acclimating shipped cleaner shrimp
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Usually, the company instructs you what to do - based on how they ship. When I have received shrimp before I have just temp acclimated them in the bag - and then removed the water from the bag and dropped the shrimp in the tank
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thing is they instruct to drip acclimate but lets not forget it will probs be in shipping for 24 hours and ammonia build up i have found out they ship at 1.022 salinity and my salinity is 1.023
Well - there are a couple issues - its not just salinity thats the issue - it can be all the other parameters as well. Second - Though I don't do it this way (as I already described) - if you don't 'drip' acclimate them - they may void any warranty. Third - I would try to order from a company that ships in the evening - and the livestock arrives in the AM (even if a little more expensive) and Fourth - shrimp will build up far less ammonia in the bag than a fish. IME
Curious - what did you do - and what happened
poor thing had a fit as soon as I added it to the tank, took a while before it died, I was hoping it would come right, it seemed to get better then go again.
I floated the bag, then dripped for maybe 20 minutes.
I learned my lesson the next one was dripped for nearly 2 hours. He went in no problem at all.
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