When your animals arrive, be sure and turn off the aquarium
lights prior to acclimation.
Carefully open the box and set it next to the aquarium.
Carefully remove the bags of fish and/or invertebrates and
place them into the aquarium.
Leave the bags floating in the aquarium for approximately
20 mintues to allow the temperature in the bags to match the
temperature in the aquarium.
Next, carefully transfer the bags of fish and/or
invertebrates to a clean bucket. Please make sure that fish
and invertebrates are kept in separate buckets.
You may now turn your aquarium lights back on.
Cut the bags open and carefully put the animals and bag
water into the bucket.
Next get some airline tubing and siphon it from the tank
into the bucket making a drip rate of approximately 3 to 5 drops per
second.
Every hour the volume of water in the bucket should double.
After about 2 hours it should be safe to move your fish
into the aquarium.
If acclimating corals, Puff D Aquatics
recommends using Seachem
Reef Dip™ at this point.
If acclimating fish, Puff D Aquatics
recommends using Seachem
StressGuard™ at this point.
When transferring your fish or invertebrates, you may use a
net if the animal doesn't have any appendages that may get caught in
the net and tear. This would make them prone to infection.
If the animal does have appendages that may get caught in a
net, Puff D Aquatics recommends you get a cup with a small hole in the
bottom and scoop the animal out. Slowly waiting for the water
to drain from the cup back into the bucket. Once the water is
gone you may move the animal into your tank.
Please remember to always avoid getting water from the bag/bucket into
your aquarium.
Also, here at Puff D Aquatics, for those animals that require feeding
from a stick such as Frogfishes, Eels and Lionfishes, we use a simple
3/16" rigid tubing with a smaller 1" piece of 3/16" rigid
tubing rubberbanded together. The bait is simply wedged
between the two pieces with some tension from the rubberband.
We tell you this because we want you to have the easiest
transition for your animals.
If you follow these acclimation procedures
your newly purchased animals from Puff D Aquatics should be off to a
healthy start in their new home!
