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Will come as soon as everything is in the tank! The birdnest and Acro will color back up from being somewhat brown right?

 

YAY!!! Thanks

 

As a general rule you should always open the box and remove the livestock in a dim room. The light shock is stressful to them.

Glad they made it!! Hope all is well!

 

This is the recommendations from liveaquaria's site.

Reef Aquarium Success: Acclimating New Corals to Your Aquarium's Lighting System

Hope that helps to clarify it.

 

Yes they will

 

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SPS are some of the most hardy and delicate corals all at the same time. Many are exposed to air and extreme sunlight for several hours each day due to low tides. Yet, the slightest amount of phosphate in the water will make them brown out and be generally unhappy.

It is this extreme exposure that renders drip acclimation a waste of time for SPS. They have adapted to quick extreme changes.

As for the dipping. Red Bugs, AEN (acro eating nudis), and who knows what else can hitch a ride. Just make sure that you do not kill off a commenceral crab when you do it.

 

+1

Acropora in the wild are exposed to air and elevated temperatures for hours at a time during low tide, as well as rain fall.

One does not need to do anything special when removing them from packaging with regard to lighting. You are not going to stress or shock a coral with light when removing it from the package.

I would follow live aquaria's light acclimation guide which can be found on their site.

Personally I do not drip acclimate anything but snails, shrimp and starfish or a fish that has been in transit for a long time. And I do not believe I have ever drip acclimated a sps. But if that seems a safer way to go then you should do it, but not a must IMO.

 

i dont think drip acclimation for an sps is going to do anything more than make it mad lol. As for light acclimation, it can take months for a bleached SPS to recover, browning from stress can take weeks, go slow with the lighting!