Nanci B Posted July 22, 2022 Share Posted July 22, 2022 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nabokovfan87 Posted July 22, 2022 Share Posted July 22, 2022 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! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nanci B Posted July 22, 2022 Author Share Posted July 22, 2022 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! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mountaintoppufferkeeper Posted July 22, 2022 Share Posted July 22, 2022 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. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lefty o Posted July 22, 2022 Share Posted July 22, 2022 4 degree cooler , going into warmer water. plop em in. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nanci B Posted July 22, 2022 Author Share Posted July 22, 2022 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. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nanci B Posted July 24, 2022 Author Share Posted July 24, 2022 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. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flumpweesel Posted July 24, 2022 Share Posted July 24, 2022 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. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nanci B Posted July 25, 2022 Author Share Posted July 25, 2022 Unfortunately not, these shrimp have the same type of reproduction needs as Amano shrimp, so no colony for me unless I buy more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy's Fish Den Posted July 25, 2022 Share Posted July 25, 2022 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 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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