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I hope you don't take my comment as having criticized your acclimation. I really love Blue Zoo Aquatics and they even send a drip acclimation kit with every fish purchase. I've also seen suppliers that tell you their fish guarantee is invalid if you drip acclimate. My method works for me and my fish seem to like it so I stick with it. I've never had a hard time matching salinity or slowly ramping it up during the QT period. However, I know people that love doing TTM and I hope to never do it again! :mad:Each in their own bags. Two of them (the Blue and a Yellow Eye Kole) were added into the same QT. Not the best option/choice, but I only had two drip acclimation boxes and four fish to do. They all came from the same source, of course.
Noted on the drip timeline, yeah. I've always felt that it was long, but did my best to "follow directions"... In the future, I'll shorten it up for sure. I'd not mind eliminating it, but I use my DT water as my QT water, so it may be more difficult to get the salinity to match. I'd have to add salt/rodi to adjust, and then I'd also be working to get the QT water back over to the DT salinity before I could add them in... Seemed easier/less error prone to start off with a drip acclimation to get everyone on the same field. Hyposalinity baths and such are always an option, of course.
I just hope whatever is bothering the little guy is minor and that he pulls through quickly.