IceCap Aquatic Drip Acclimation Kit (IC-ACK-200S)
The IceCap Aquatic Drip Acclimation Kit (SKU: IC-ACK-200S) is a simple, highly effective livestock husbandry tool distributed by CoralVue to safely ease new aquatic arrivals into your home ecosystem. When fish, shrimp, starfish, or live corals are shipped across country networks or brought home from a local store, the water they travel in quickly deviates from your display tank's established parameters. Drastic differences in salinity, nitrate density, total hardness, and pH can shock an animal's regulatory systems, leading to high stress, weak immune responses, or immediate osmotic failure. The IC-ACK-200S eliminates this danger by utilizing a controlled gravity-fed drip line to slowly replace transit water with your display's clean water, allowing the specimen's chemistry to adjust naturally over a safe 30-to-60-minute window.
What makes this specific kit far superior to generic DIY airline setups is the inclusion of the integrated manual siphon starter and the rigid over-rim hook line. Sucking on dirty aquarium tubes to start a siphon is unhygienic and risks introducing bacteria or medication residues to your mouth. The IceCap kit features an inline rubber squeeze primer that starts the water flowing smoothly with a few simple presses. The intake end is anchored by a rigid acrylic U-tube that clips over your display rim, holding a specialized foam strainer sponge fully submerged to prevent accidental dry siphons. A precise inline plastic thumb valve gives you full control over the flow rate, letting you dial it down to a slow crawl for ultra-sensitive invertebrates like echinoderms or wild-harvested shrimp.
Key Features
Hygienic Manual Pump Primer: Simple rubber bulb mechanism starts your siphon instantly while keeping your hands clean and your mouth dry.
Pre-Filter Strainer Block: Sponge-wrapped intake prevents loose carbon fragments, filter sock fibers, or macroalgae strands from creating inline bottlenecks.
Precision Drip Regulation: Micro-clamp thumb screw valve allows you to easily adjust your delivery line from a fast, steady stream down to a single drop per second.
Flexible Clear Vinyl Line: Kink-resistant vinyl tubing lays flat over your bucket edge without looping, kinking, or cutting off flow.
