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05/17/2012, 12:20 AM
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acclimating sps to ulns
let's say you get sps from a lfs and they run their alk at 10 and with ulns you get an alk of 7...
whats the best method for acclimating? Tia |
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05/17/2012, 08:59 AM
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drip slowly
very slowly maybe over 12 hours
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05/17/2012, 09:19 AM
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Most just temp acclimate and pop them in. I do the same.
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05/17/2012, 02:35 PM
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thats the best way i know of to kill a piece of sps coral!!!!
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05/17/2012, 02:41 PM
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no shock. nor Issues.
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05/17/2012, 02:47 PM
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It seems a lot easier to introduce them to ULNS than to get them back to a "regular" system. That may be why you see so many threads of people that come off of Zeovit or other ULNS systems and start having problems.
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05/17/2012, 03:04 PM
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Temp, dip, drop. IME SPS handle a swing down in dKH a lot better then a swing up.
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05/17/2012, 03:13 PM
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seems my tank my just run differently, mine is the other way around
i go down in alk any and they start bleaching especaily birds nest
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05/17/2012, 03:14 PM
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i have noticed that,the people posting above do live higher off the sea level
could altitude have any effect ?
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05/17/2012, 07:47 PM
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05/17/2012, 09:03 PM
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If running a lower alk then the system the frag came from do as said and drip acclimate over several hours. That is the safest method. I just temp acclimate by floating the bag and then add to the frag rack. I ever know what the alk is that the frag came from could be 11 could be 7 but I have never had any issues from adding a sps right to the tank. Most new sps look good and show PE with in a few hours if that.
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05/17/2012, 09:27 PM
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even with montipora? they seem to be the best at stning when alk drops to fast
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05/18/2012, 09:44 AM
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For me montis are stupid easy to keep, they grow like weeds and I cant kill them. The smoothed skinned acros are the hardest.
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05/18/2012, 11:42 AM
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05/19/2012, 12:01 PM
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i've had an alk drop nearly destroy my monti's
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