Acclimating Saltwater Fish in 10 Easy Steps

Contrary to popular misconception, introducing a new fish to a saltwater aquarium is not a simple matter of floating the shipping bag in the tank for 15 or 20 minutes and then releasing the fish into its new home. Sure,…

NextReef stick-on internal refugiums can also serve as fish condtioning vessels

The new NextReef stick on refugiums serve several functions, mainly as in tank refugiums, but we can imagine that they might very well serve as fish acclimation chambers. In the case that you don’t want to run your QT/ hospital…

Reef Gently’s AccliStick is an analog way to digitally adjust your acclimation drip rate

  The AccliStick from Reef Gently is a a great idea to get a baseline drip rate for acclimating different sorts of fish. The very first day we worked at a fish store, one of the veteran fishguys showed us how…

Metacube is a modular way to separate or introduce fish

[youtube width=”640″ height=”390″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdH8zvD_TBk&feature=player_embedded[/youtube] Metacube is an interesting way to acclimate or separate fish within your system. Using a modular docking technique that reminds us of the International Space Station or a Habitrail, the Metacube allows you to connect these together…

CPR Aquatic releasing First A.I.D. this week

[youtube width=”640″ height=”385″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIMyn6sFD1o[/youtube] CPR Aquatic has begun shipping its multipurpose CPR Aquatic First A.I.D. system that we brought you earlier this year in prototype form. The acronym means Acclimation, Isolation, and Dosing but the handy device can do all this…

CPR Aquatic First-AID, a multipurpose utility vessel shown in beta

CPR Aquatic’s First-AID is going to be a multipurpose utility to help with acclimation, isolation and dosing in your tank. A fun play on what it does with acronym in the name (Acclimation, Isolation and Dosing), CPR took the approach of keeping…