Need help acclimating my sea cucumbers

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Hi everyone.

Just moved houses and switched from a DIY-style 55 gallon to a Reefer 250. Purchased it used, and due to the main drain pipe breaking, we ran into some issues that caused the water to sit in buckets for a while, making it a little cold (~17°C) I added the previous owner's fish into the tank just fine while I heated it up with two heaters, then I drip acclimated my inverts and fish (I only had an ocellaris, goby, and 2 shrimp) but I'm worried about my 2 sea cucumbers. I've had a heater in their bucket the whole time and have been drip acclimating them for 5 hours so far (I have been slightly increasing the drip every few hours), but there is still a little bit of a temperature difference and my sea apple looks like its folded over. How can I make sure that I don't stress them out any more than they already are from the move?

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