New tang

[ShaneAugust]

I just had a white cheek tang get delivered from Pete’saquarium.com and I’m starting the drip acclimation. He’s swimming erratically with his head and eyes out of the water. I understand shipping is hard on them but I’ve never seen this behavior from any tang before. Will he be okay after settling in? Salinity in his bag was 1.020 and temp was 71.2. No heating packs in the box. Is this a swim bladder issue? Blindness? Thank you for any advice.

 

[KrisReef]

Put your hand in the acclimation bucket and lift the tang slightly and tell it that you are not going to eat it, you are going to put it in a tank where it will be fed, etc.
Don't let a panicked animal continue going crazy. Time to be a shepherd of the sheep. GL

 

[Dave1993]

you don't drip acclimated shipped fish probs getting burnt from ammonia

i have had fish delivered 1.018 temp acclimated and straight into 1.025 never had a fish die from that yet and is much better than burning from ammonia

 

[exnisstech]

you don't drip acclimated shipped fish probs getting burnt from ammonia

i have had fish delivered 1.018 temp acclimated and straight into 1.025 never had a fish die from that yet and is much better than burning from ammonia

^^ This