Which order should i add this stuff, shold i acclimate?

[Heymybigfish]

I am recieveing my clean up crew tomorrow it is



1 linkia starfish

10 nassarius snails

10 cerith snails

10 blue leg hermes

3 emerald hermits

1 coral banded shrimp





in which order should i add them, and in which manner...i was assuming i would set up 2 acclimation tanks and do the stargish and shrimp 1st (speratly of corse)



then to the 20 snails....and then her emeralsd/blues







so, for any of these can i just float em and add like 1/2 cup water every 20 minutes or somthing? thanks.

[CollegeReefer]

you don't need to set up any tanks to acclimate your inverts. The best way to acclimate is to use the drip them. All you need is air tubeing. Otherwise just take a 1/4 cup measuring cup and put in into the bag every 10 minutes. Once it doubles in volume, dump out half of the water into a drain and do it again. Make sure to float the bag as well to get the water temp to match your tank. I always spend more time acclimating inverts because they seem to be more senstive. Good luck and have fun.

[Heymybigfish]

thanks a ton bro...i do have that tubing, 1/4" and i also have a 'tank' which is a large syrofoam box

[leveldrummer]

you can do the quick way collegereefer said for everything but the linkia, let the linkia float in the tank (in the sealed bag) and get everyone in there first, take about and hour to acclimate everything. (go a little slower on the shrimp) and once everyone is done and in the tank, set up a very slow drip for the linkia, you wanna take about 3 hours, couple drips a second, real nice and slow. make sure you get it acclimated very very well before dropping it in the tank.