Help Acclimating My First Tennis

[LovinlifeinGuam]

Hey, I'm planning on getting my first tenuis today and want to make sure I acclimate it right...The tank is a nano coral/invert tank with a Noopsyche K7 V3 light over it and I tested all my parameters a little while ago to ensure they were where they should be. I know it's good to start off with less intense light and slowly increase to the high light requirements they require but just how slow does a tenuis usually need to be acclimated before being moved to a high light intensity? Is there an easy way to tell by looking at it?

 

[vetteguy53081]

Hey, I'm planning on getting my first tenuis today and want to make sure I acclimate it right...The tank is a nano coral/invert tank with a Noopsyche K7 V3 light over it and I tested all my parameters a little while ago to ensure they were where they should be. I know it's good to start off with less intense light and slowly increase to the high light requirements they require but just how slow does a tenuis usually need to be acclimated before being moved to a high light intensity? Is there an easy way to tell by looking at it?

Place in a small clean container after floating for 20 mins and add a cup of tank water every 15 mins 4-5 times and assure salinity matches tank

 

[LovinlifeinGuam]

Place in a small clean container after floating for 20 mins and add a cup of tank water every 15 mins 4-5 times and assure salinity matches tank

Ok thanks...just to be safe, how would I know if my light is too intense at first?

 

[vetteguy53081]

Ok thanks...just to be safe, how would I know if my light is too intense at first?

Introduce coral under low light always preferably blue and then ramp up slowly

 

[LovinlifeinGuam]

Introduce coral under low light always preferably blue and then ramp up slowly

How slowly? I would assume who I just bought it from had it under high lighting as well but it never hurts to be safe

 

[vetteguy53081]

How slowly? I would assume who I just bought it from had it under high lighting as well but it never hurts to be safe

This time you’re acclimating it to new environment
Ramp up 5% per day

 

[LovinlifeinGuam]

This time you’re acclimating it to new environment
Ramp up 5% per day

It's finally in the tank... hoping he does well. If anything was wrong, he'd just start bleaching, right

 

[SPSDomination]

I just acclimate and place them where they are going to go in the tank. Changing my light pattern will just effect my other acros. No problems so far.

 

[LovinlifeinGuam]

I just acclimate and place them where they are going to go in the tank. Changing my light pattern will just effect my other acros. No problems so far.

I'll give it a shot

 

[HudsonReefer2.0]

Float, dip, rinse, place.

 

[xiaoxiy]

Float, dip, rinse, place.

I also float to temp acclimate, then dip in bayer & rinse, and finally into the QT tank it goes.

 

[Dburr1014]

Yes, I haven't done sg acclimate in years.
Light, yes.
Just got my first Walt Disney frag Saturday.
Floated, dipped, and now on a frag rack mid height. Every couple days I'm going to move it up a couple inches.
I need to take a pic, polyp extension is already decent. :D

 

[jfoahs04]

It's finally in the tank... hoping he does well. If anything was wrong, he'd just start bleaching, right

It could bleach but it could also RTN or STN. If it wasn’t acclimated properly or if it’s just really unhappy, RTN is the most likely thing to occur and it’d happen fast (often within a week or two). STN and bleaching generally happen more over time.

 

[LovinlifeinGuam]

It could bleach but it could also RTN or STN. If it wasn’t acclimated properly or if it’s just really unhappy, RTN is the most likely thing to occur and it’d happen fast (often within a week or two). STN and bleaching generally happen more over time.

I made sure before it went in the tank I had the salinity and temperature equal...it took about an hour of adding a little bit of water to the bag every 10 minutes or so and testing every time I poured a little water in

 

[vetteguy53081]

It's finally in the tank... hoping he does well. If anything was wrong, he'd just start bleaching, right

Would take a couple days to start discoloring

 

[LovinlifeinGuam]

Would take a couple days to start discoloring

Ok... I'm sure it wasn't perfect but I made sure the salinity and temp matched by slowly adding water a little at a time over like 45 mins to an hour

 

[LovinlifeinGuam]

I can see polyps out a little bit so I'm hoping that's a good sign

 

[vetteguy53081]

I can see polyps out a little bit so I'm hoping that's a good sign

Great sign

 

[LovinlifeinGuam]

Great sign

Cool... unfortunately I just realized I'm gonna have to kill some hitchhiking crabs that I just caught trying to eat it!

 

[vetteguy53081]

Cool... unfortunately I just realized I'm gonna have to kill some hitchhiking crabs that I just caught trying to eat it!

Or sump them