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I have never used these before but have read members use them to acclimatise their new shrimp. I am doing this for the first time and just want to know roughly how long you need to keep the new shrimp in there. I usually drip acclimatise for 2-3 hours and then make sure the TDS is very close or the same. This time both lots of water were within 4ppm so I can't go by that. I have the air flow reasonably low and the box was half full of the shrimps own water. it is now happily overflowing into the main tank. How long is long enough? They are happy enough munching out on Snow and have been in there a few hours. I know they can stay in there indefinitely but I would prefer them in the main tank. Any thoughts?

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Can't believe I hadn't thought of acclimatising this way! Brilliant! Usually once I have more tank water in than the water they came in, approx. 3 hours, then I put them in main tank!

Have kept shrimp in satellite for a couple of weeks at times!

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Thanks Jamie That's pretty much what I usually do . So now the box has been changing water for a while I might let a few out.

Yes it is a brilliant idea shame it wasn't mine but it was so easy.I had been using it in another tank for some babies so there is substrate and moss etc in there. i just left the smallest amount of water in there, put the new shrimp in with all their water and started it up . I guess though you do need to know where your shrimp come from as normally I wouldn't mix water from new shrimp with my tank water but in this case BB's water is probably better than mine anyway.:happydance:

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When i do it ineke i add a bit of the bag water to the breeding box then i will have it slow drip until the box is full, once its full i increase the drop rate to allow the water to cycle through the breeder box a couple of times so an extra hour or two. All up generally i am acclimating for atleast 4hrs but i am extra cautions ;)

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Thanks for that -I took about 3 1/2 this time .The drip rate was pretty slow so all should be well .

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So you are letting the water the shrimp came in mix with your tank water? Hmm I prefer not to mix water from others tanks with mine just in case...

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I agree fully Chi I usually drip and then catch out the shrimp never letting the water mix. I didn't think too much about it today because it was from Marcus but in hind sight I probably shouldn't take that sort of risk regardless of where I get my shrimp. It was a first and will be the last time but it shows how easy it is to get caught up with a new gadget and do risky things. :)

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So you are letting the water the shrimp came in mix with your tank water? Hmm I prefer not to mix water from others tanks with mine just in case...

im with you, i NEVER take the chance of putting the water that shrimp or fish came in , into my tank either.

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Yeah especially after that bacteria infection issue i had ages ago just from adding shrimp from different sellers in to existing colony. Adding The water is a no no for me. Just not worth the risk considering how much some shrimp cost and it could wipe out every shrimp in that tank.

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I always use theses boxes & I always put a few centimeters of the water out of the bag they came in the breeder box & then most of the time I let it run overnight. I don't mind having someone else's water going into my tanks as the more bacteria, the stronger the immune system. I have had a problem with "bacteria" in the past but found that it was an immune system problem, not a bacterial problem. Every single surface on this planet, both above & below the surface of the water, has bacteria on it(both good & bad) & I have found that by increasing the strength of your shrimps immune system they are less at risk of the bad bacteria taking over their body causing mortality. :encouragement:

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Thanks Squiggs I guess both schools of thought are OK. I do think sometimes we tend to be over cautious with our shrimp besides when you think of the number of things we buy then put into our tanks we are adding bacteria all the time!

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I always use theses boxes & I always put a few centimeters of the water out of the bag they came in the breeder box & then most of the time I let it run overnight. I don't mind having someone else's water going into my tanks as the more bacteria' date=' the stronger the immune system. I have had a problem with "bacteria" in the past but found that it was an immune system problem, not a bacterial problem. Every single surface on this planet, both above & below the surface of the water, has bacteria on it(both good & bad) & I have found that by increasing the strength of your shrimps immune system they are less at risk of the bad bacteria taking over their body causing mortality. :encouragement:[/quote']

I'm with you!

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