crister13
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HOLY CRAP!!!!!!!!!! HES HUGE!!! Hes a beauty too. If mine gets at all too large back to the store he'll go or to an aquarium. I hope he doesnt get too large......... lolz. Nice pic!
MacDracor said:Just make sure that whatever you are acclimating them in is of about the same temperature, as a bucket or bowl by itself will get cold too quickly.
MacDracor said:There was a good article in TFH recently about drip acclimating. I had always used about 2 drips per second, too, but this article indicated that was way too slow.
Author Jay Hemdal states that it should be called flow, rather than drip acclimation.
Quoting from the article: "If one were to set up a drip line at one drop of water per second (as many home aquarists have assumed would be an appropriate rate), it would take 50 hours to equilibriate the difference in water parameters between 1/4 gallon of shipping water and the receiving tank to within 90 percent of each other".
He then goes on to state that a flowrate of a milliliter per second would reach 90% equilibrium in 2.5 hours.
MacDracor said:Shame about the peps. I've aldo heard good things about berghia nudibranches.
If you use a liquid test kit with a 5 ml test tube, check your flow rate by counting how long it takes to fill a test tube to the 5 ml line. If it takes more than 5 seconds, probably too slow.
MacDracor said:TFH is Tropical Fish Hobbyist. Sorry, I should have been more specific.