In a few weeks, I'll be moving about 2.5 hours away and so far my main concerns are getting the fish down there safely. The tank is loosly planted (bunches of anachris, cambomba, anubias nana, & pitiful amazon sword plants) community tank. I have:
4 bolivian rams
6 assorted cory cats
6 black skirt tetras
1 bn pleco
1 platy
1 dwarf gourami
From what I can find online, it looks like the suggested course of action would be to (1) catch the fish and distribute them into several buckets of tank-water, (2) leave the plants, gravel, and a little bit of water in the tank, (3) re-locate and set-up the new tank, filling with as much of the old water as possible (4) acclimate fish with fingers crossed. Grand total, they'll probably be in the buckets for 4-5 hours, though I hope to make it less as the tank will be the last think I pack. I've also noticed a few more red worms in the gravel so I'm thinking about getting new gravel and having that rinsed & ready before the move.
However, I might have several other options. My boyfriend has an under-stocked 50gal tank with sufficient filtration so I could move my fish into his tank, then haul my tank down & get it set up, then move my fish from his tank down to their new home. The only thing I don't like about that is having to catch and relocate the fish twice, but if it's easier on them in the long run it'll work out.
The other option is that since I'm moving some stuff down this coming weekend, I take a few of the fish down with a 10gal aquarium and the smaller of my two filters, so that way there's few fish to worry about and the filter that's down there should have recovered any lost bacteria in the mean time.
Any thoughts on what might be easiest for me and the fish?
4 bolivian rams
6 assorted cory cats
6 black skirt tetras
1 bn pleco
1 platy
1 dwarf gourami
From what I can find online, it looks like the suggested course of action would be to (1) catch the fish and distribute them into several buckets of tank-water, (2) leave the plants, gravel, and a little bit of water in the tank, (3) re-locate and set-up the new tank, filling with as much of the old water as possible (4) acclimate fish with fingers crossed. Grand total, they'll probably be in the buckets for 4-5 hours, though I hope to make it less as the tank will be the last think I pack. I've also noticed a few more red worms in the gravel so I'm thinking about getting new gravel and having that rinsed & ready before the move.
However, I might have several other options. My boyfriend has an under-stocked 50gal tank with sufficient filtration so I could move my fish into his tank, then haul my tank down & get it set up, then move my fish from his tank down to their new home. The only thing I don't like about that is having to catch and relocate the fish twice, but if it's easier on them in the long run it'll work out.
The other option is that since I'm moving some stuff down this coming weekend, I take a few of the fish down with a 10gal aquarium and the smaller of my two filters, so that way there's few fish to worry about and the filter that's down there should have recovered any lost bacteria in the mean time.
Any thoughts on what might be easiest for me and the fish?
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