Breather bag delivered—How to match to rank temperature?

[Nanci B]

Hi everyone! 
 

hope you and your fish are keeping cool these days. I just got an order of shrimp (safe and sound), but I don’t know how to get the breather bag to somewhat match the tank temp. 
Currently, the breather bag is 4 degrees cooler than the tank. I have always used  the plop and drop method of putting fish/shrimp in my tank, but these are short nose shrimp and this company is the only place I could find them. 

So how do I do this? 
 

Thanks in advance! 
 

Nanci and the shortys

 

[nabokovfan87]

You can do the slow acclimation method, put the shrimp / water into a specimen container or something similar and slowly add water from the tank into that container.

 

This video does discuss how to do so with a breather bag. I hope it helps!

[Nanci B]

Thank you. I did watch this video, but although there is a breather bag pictured next to the regular plastic one, he actually doesn’t go through the steps for the breather bag specifically. 
 

I did see a different video that directed you to pour the whole breather bag into a separate container and then float that container in the tank itself. So I am off to look for some type of container that I can do this with. 
 

I really appreciate your help! 
 

 

[mountaintoppufferkeeper]

When I use that method on shrimp I just cut the breather bags and dump everything water and shrimp into a specimen container then use the airline with a valve on it to drip acclimate to double the original volume. My temperature and parameters are pretty much equal by then and i release them then.

[lefty o]

4 degree cooler , going into warmer water. plop em in.

[Nanci B]

Thanks @nabokovfan87 @lefty o @mountaintoppufferkeeper (live link didn’t work?) After about 30 minutes just in the bag they warmed up pretty quickly. I finally just dumped them into a container and netted them out and put them in the tank from algae hell.  
 

we shall see what happens. 

[Nanci B]

All went well. They are doing just fine. On a side note, some of these shrimp are eating black beard algae, but not touching the blue green algae. But I just looked at the notes on the algae identification page and evidently I can use a medication to assist with that. 
 

I should have gotten more shrimp. Now I wish I had gotten 20,  instead of 10. 

[Flumpweesel]

On 7/24/2022 at 11:49 PM, Nanci B said:

wish I had gotten 20,  instead of 10. 

Well if there is plenty of food in sure you'll have 20 soon anyway.

[Nanci B]

Unfortunately not, these shrimp have the same type of reproduction needs as Amano shrimp, so no colony for me unless I buy more. 

[Andy's Fish Den]

When I get fish in that are in breather bags, I just open the breather bag, put them into a specimen container and float that in the tank. Then just finish the acclimation process how ever you usually do whether drip or plop n drop