I don’t control the bucket temp. I temp acclimate the bag to the bucket and drop. From there I drip acclimate from DT until SG and temp match. If I hit SG but temp is quite a bit off I’ll start pulling water from the bucket and adding DT water with a container or multiple drippers fully open.I thought about doing this for my next shipment. I’ve had really bad luck and lost two tominis and a watchman goby from Dr. Reef. (Not really his fault or mine, but now I’m super gun shy about any hiccoughs during acclimation because I can’t ask him to replace anymore fish-this will be the third Tomini he’s sending me.)
My only problem would be needing multiple heaters…. How do you control the temp in the buckets? Or you just pull tank water and dilute with RODI hoping it’s close enough to tank water?
I have one heater for acclimation, but having multiple buckets ready at specific temps and salinity is challenging.