Acclimatising shipped corals is a very different from the way you would normally acclimatise coral that were only bagged a few hours ago.
When corals are shipped they normally produce excess mucus and almost always the water temperature drops to very low levels, the low temperature of the water actually help us because ammonia is less toxic at lower temperatures.
If you were to slowly increase the temperature of the shipping water via drip acclimatisation the ammonia would almost certainly kill or injury the coral badly, for this reason we would suggest you remove the coral from the shipping water straight away and place the coral directly into you display tank.
Cyber Aquatics imports over 300 corals per month and we use this technique with all of them and we very rarely loose any corals even though have been in transit for over 36 hours via air freight
