Salinity Match?

[Kasey Grohowski]

I ordered a fish from nyaquatic, he told me the fish will be delivered in 1.021 sg and my tank is at 1.025. He said it will be fine as long as the fish is drip acclimated. Anyone know if the raise in salinity will affect the fish? My tank is 220 gallons so it would take a few water changes to drop it to 1.021. Thank you.

 

[Jekyl]

Look up drip acclimation. You get them used to your tank not the other way around

 

[Kasey Grohowski]

Look up drip acclimation. You get them used to your tank not the other way around

Well I know that, its just I've seen a lot of acclimation methods where people get their tank to match the salinity of the fish store's salinity.

 

[Jon Fishman]

Are you still looking at the coral catshark? If that is mainly what will be in your tank, dropping the salinity a bit may be advantageous anyways....... otherwise, yeah, acclimate the fish, not the tank.

 

[Jekyl]

Nah. You would have to change tank parameters every time you add something that way

 

[Kasey Grohowski]

Are you still looking at the coral catshark? If that is mainly what will be in your tank, dropping the salinity a bit may be advantageous anyways....... otherwise, yeah, acclimate the fish, not the tank.

Yeah it is, you think it would do better at a lower salinity?

 

[Jon Fishman]

I'm going just based off of what google said the "range" was, you're at the top of the scale with your salinity, I'd probably shoot for the middle...... mixed tank etc, I wouldn't pander to a single fish, but you're likely just keeping that and little else, so I would set my parameters based off of it.

 

[Kasey Grohowski]

I'm going just based off of what google said the "range" was, you're at the top of the scale with your salinity, I'd probably shoot for the middle...... mixed tank etc, I wouldn't pander to a single fish, but you're likely just keeping that and little else, so I would set my parameters based off of it.

Yeah basically just this fish and some clean up crew, zebra turbo's etc. Anyways I wasn't worried about the salinity too much because it's in range.

 

[ngoodermuth]

Well I know that, its just I've seen a lot of acclimation methods where people get their tank to match the salinity of the fish store's salinity.

This is when using a QT tank, rather than putting the fish right into your display. Much less stressful to match your QT to the shipping salinity and then raise it over several days rather than a couple of hours.

When you receive the fish though, I would put it in a 5g bucket half filled with water matching the salinity of the shipping water. Temp acclimate, and then take the fish straight out of the dirty bag water and into your “landing pad”. Then drip there, in the clean water.

When fish are shipped the ammonia is less toxic due to lack of O2 and low PH. When the water is exposed to air (opening the bag) the ammonia reacts and coverts to a more toxic form...