How to acclimate a group of fish shipped overnight?

[csababubbles]

Lee,

I will be getting a shipment of a group of 8 cardinal fish. They will be each bagged in their own bags in the same shipping box and they will be coming from the same system from the retailer. When they arrive, instead of setting up 8 buckets to acclimate them, can I just put them all in the same bucket and acclimate them together?

Thanks for your advice!

 

[tdgates10]

Not to answer the question for lee, but when I got my group of anthias, I acclimated them together and QT them together just fine.

 

[leebca]

Considering the fish AND if you are sure they are in fact coming from the exact same water from the shipper/source, then I would open each bag and check the pH, and salinity (sp. gr.) to verify what you were told was true, then if all checks out, put them together and they can go through the process together.

The pH, if grossly different between the various bags, doesn't mean the source was not the same, but that the fish in that or a couple of the bags have made a substantial alteration to their water. Mixing the water with non-matching pH water is not in their best interests. Putting fish together from similar bag water (when sp. gr. matches) of similar pH should be no problem. That is to say, you may find you have two or more 'batches' of fishes to put through the system of acclimation. However, once acclimated to the single QT water, they can then be quarantined together in that (one) QT.

Hope the above is clear.

 

[Macaframa14]

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