Yellow labs died :(

[sountfc]

OK, I get it. I never bother to drip acclimate, although it's a personal preference rather than for the reason stated here. I float the bag to avoid drastic temperature differences, then immediately open, net, and release.

[Bedlamer]

That's why I don't cycle tanks nor drip acclimate if I don't have to.

Ek could you please elaborate on what you mean by you don't cycle tanks? I'm not grasping what you are saying. I'm reading it and all I can think is the only tank you don't cycle would be a betta bowl that is bare and gets 100% water changes--which is not the case with your tanks--except for your betta bowl--lol

[eklikewhoa]

my fish tanks get 100% water changes too.

when I set up a new tank I fill with water, add the juju stuff, scape and if the water is good temp or clear I add fish, if not the following day gets fish. I try and stock as much as I can, as soon as I can.
I do weekly to twice a week 100% water changes.

The large tank you saw I got maybe a few weeks prior to you seeing it, that tank has about 150 fish in it now with a MBU puffer. Since like day two of filling that tank most of the fish went in.

I'm sure somewhere down the line the tank eventually cycles itself but I take no time initially to cycle or wait for the cycle. My 180g gets more 100% water changes then my two betta bowls.

[Bedlamer]

OK, I get it. I never bother to drip acclimate, although it's a personal preference rather than for the reason stated here. I float the bag to avoid drastic temperature differences, then immediately open, net, and release.

+1 .

The saltwater folks tend to be really big on the drip method. I'm thinking if you have matched temperature, salinity, and pH you would be doing pretty good except for the most fragile critters? I read a number of posts in the saltwater world where they are drip aclimatizing a fish, then proceed to give it a freshwater dip (which apparently is fairly effective). So it seems counter-intuitive to me to take 2 hours to drip the new fish--then dunk it into freshwater? I understand that less change is is less stress on the fish but what the heck?

So if your fish are shipped in the new gas permeable bags--the CO2 and O2 remain close to normal atmospheric levels and that means your fish are in a higher ppm of ammonia (rather than the ammonium) than if they were shipped using the old school way of bagging them? So your fish have higher levels of O2 available in the bag--but a higher probability of getting ammonia burn?