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Posted	REGAL tang
14-05-2006 16:41 by tommy	how long should i leave him floating for i would say 1 hour but he seems quiet stressed atm so maybe 2 ..
14-05-2006 16:44 by wayne	20 mins max , normally leave for 15 mins open bag add a little of your water , 5 mins later add more leave for another 5 min the let him out , yurn the lights off until tommorow so he doesnt get too stressed. regals are prone to white spot, watch him
14-05-2006 16:45 by tommy	20 mins seems very short.. most marine centers say 1 02 hours for tangs and others 20 mins so no iam unsure
14-05-2006 16:48 by tommy	any1 else .
14-05-2006 17:07 by Michael C	I always do as Wayne says, 20 mins maybe less if the fish is stressed
14-05-2006 17:25 by trik	a regal tang will allways look stressed even wen in the tank they will lie on there sides and play dead. but 20 mins to 30 max is fine .
14-05-2006 18:18 by wayne	the purpose is to aclimatise the water(make the waterin the bag same as tank , this takes less than 10 mins depending how cold the bag has got , and mixing the water is a good idea , if you pour straight in it will get even more stredssed.
14-05-2006 19:36 by tommy	thanks waye he is is n liking all the other members .. yellow tang electric blue damesell 2 clowns 2 cleaners 2 dancing shrimp
15-05-2006 09:28 by Alan	2 hours for tangs. Lights off float the bag and then every ten mins add a tumbler full of tank water to the bag if the shop uses a background copper treatment in the fish only systems many do! float the tang in a bucket and drip feed the tank waterr into it a couple of drips a second and wait 2 hours then net the tang out and put him straight in to the main tank. It would be best to quarantine though I have learnt this the hard way.
15-05-2006 13:12 by D.R.	2 hours!! now thats dedication for you. The shop staff should know the pH and salinity readings of their systems. This should be a guide as to how long your tank and the shop's parameters will need to equilibriate. Obviously the greater the difference then a little more caution when adding water to the bag. An air stone in the bag will create enough current to distribute the water. I would have said 20-40min. Alan - did you get your quarantine tank up and running then? Your fish will thank you for it in the long run
16-05-2006 08:17 by Alan	Quarantine is running the thing with tangs is they are very sensitive to salinity changes hence 2 hours equally many shops run way below natural sea water levels at around 1.019 sg where as most people run reefs at 1.026-1.027 to replicate the sea as closely as possible aclimatise them to fast and you will have renal failure on your hands as the fish will not be able to drink water fast enough to dump salt effectively in effect burning out their kidneys. Yes I have 2 quarantine tanks set up and the reef is running fishless for 2 months I have also made all the mods to the reef that Ihave been wanting to do for some time All Ocean rock out and high grade live rock in. It has made a huge difference to the biodiversity I have plankton flying about all over the shop.
16-05-2006 08:21 by Alan	The 2 hours also applies to inverts in particular shrimps and echinoderms as there internal salt levels are the same as the water they are in if you rush the aclimatising again death is the result and with inverts it normally takes a few days echinoderms disentegrate sometimes losing a leg or in the case of urchins shedding all of their spines. If its really bad death will follow within a week or so.
16-05-2006 09:08 by D.R.	Most fish in top condition should cope with the osmoregulatory stresses of moving tanks. Its the poor conditioned fish that be a problem. Certainly true for the inverts but shrimps can take a fair amount of abuse - not to be taken literally. Your reef has undergone a "fallow" period of time whereby any fish pathogens should have died back within the last two months. sorry you lost some of the old timers in your tank. Good sign of population explosions of the plankton - needs watching though as they can just as easily over populate their space and increase NH3 (depending on organism). Your fish will have a field day gorging on them. On the whole the practice of quarantine/ treatment tanks is good management! And you will see the rewards when fully intregrated for new fish/inverts
16-05-2006 09:51 by Alan	The fish in my local shop are kept at a salinity of 1.019 and I keep my tanks at 1.027 that is to bigger jump to rush. It is better to spend to long than rush the aclimatising in my opinion. Then all the stress the fish suffer is finding their place in the pecking order.
16-05-2006 15:54 by D.R.	Come to think of it. I used to do freshwater dips for marines when introducing them into quarantine. Tangs seemed to fair well for 10-15 min at significantly lower salinity. This was a good way of ridding ectoparasites. Stress is more likely from manhandling of the fish into the bag, journey home etc

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