The Drip Method

[is300zx]

Bought some new apistogrammas and the LFS owner showed me his way of acclimating new fish. The owner made the dripper free of charge and makes it for all of his first time customers. The cup sits up high and the dripping water promotes oxygen in the bucket. The bucket sits on the aquarium water so the temp will be the same as the tank. It took 3 hours to get the PH up from 6.0 to 7.6 using this method and as you can see the fish adjusted really well.

 

[rayman45]

i like my way but thats cool for thoe little monsters

 

[Gr8KarmaSF]

3 hours! yikes!

 

[The TRUST]

Damn that looks cool. I should try that. But too slow for my big fish.

 

[is300zx]

i like my way but thats cool for thoe little monsters

what kind of method do use? this is the first time i use the drip method. i usually just use the pour some tank water into the bucket kind of method lol.

Damn that looks cool. I should try that. But too slow for my big fish.

yeah it'll probably take days if the bucket was bigger.

 

[dacox]

what kind of method do use? this is the first time i use the drip method.

You could use airline tubing in to a bucket on the floor. Get a siphon going from the tank and knot the tube to control the flow rate.

 

[rallysman]

yup, take an airline, tie a knot in it, and start the siphon.
you can controll the drip or flow rate with the knot tightness

 

[is300zx]

how fast should you drip the water? also how do you regulate temperature in the airline tubing method?

 

[eh1421]

your looking for a drip a second
temp should be fine as you are dripping from your heated tank
also you want to double the water you start with
mike

 

[DIESELMACK]

I use the "D'MACK METHOD" dump their ***e$ in the tank..if any die, they were wussy fish anyway and dont belong in my tanks. You do realize I am kidding of course