Moving Advice Please

[liongirl]

Anyone and Everyone with advice about moving when you have fish tanks (plural), I would like to hear all points of view PLEASE!

 

[jacrmill]

i kept my sand in my tank. and kept a little water on it. i drained all the water into a trashcan on wheels and put the LR in it. put each fish in its own dark pitcher, and the pitcher in a cooler full of warm water. moved everything got the filter and powerhead running, put all the water and LR back in it, waited bout 20 mins for the water to clear up, then added the fish. pain in the @$$, but i dont think theres an easy way to do it.

 

[liongirl]

I heard something once about the bacteria in the water dying if you don't keep the oxygen flowing in it or something ....... could this be true? What kind of fish did you have and did any of them die. How far were you going? Thanks for your advice.

 

[jacrmill]

i was only going like 7 miles or so. i dont know if any of the bacteria died or not, but my fish didnt. at the time i had a yellow tail damsel, and bicolor angel fish. ive since lost the bicolor angel though. that might be true about the bacteria, but i dont think i had a problem since i was only going 7 miles. good luck, and sorry i couldnt help more.

 

[jacrmill]

maybe someone else will have another idea that will work better for you, just telling you my experience that did have good results.

 

[liongirl]

Thank you, I appreciate your input very much.

 

[blndekutie]

I just recently (a week ago) moved 1050 miles with my salt water tank. we put the fish in a 5 gal bucket and hooked up the heater and the air pummp to a invertor and stuck the bucket inside a styrofoam cooler. also put the bio wheel inside the bucket to help with the bacteria and to keep the amonia levels down. this worked wonderfully. didnt feed the fish until we got them in a tank at our destination. they are doing terrific. (2 percula clowns, picaso trigger).

 

[shel]

Liongirl, I moved my 125 about 50 miles. I put the fish in a cooler with some lr. (I live in Arizona and it was around 100 when we moved the fish. My concern was keeping the fish cool enough.) I put all the lr in my mixing container and cooler's. (150lb of lr) Added water to it. The live sand went into 5 gallon buckets from home Depot. I saved all the water in 5 gallon and 8 gallon containers from the water store. The fish were 2 Maroon clowns, 2 Tangs, lawnmower blemmie, 2 Cardinal Fish, 1 Flame Hawk fish and a bunch of little hermit crabs. I did this last August. Everything went wonderful. I have since lost the male maroon clown ( he stopped eating), the cardinal fish. I do not think it had to do with the move. Good luck to you and your fishy's.
I liked the idea of garbage cans with wheels, that would of really helped.
Hope this helps.
Shel

 

[jacrmill]

pretty much everyone has the same advice. take as much water as you can, keep your LR wet so not to experience die off, put your fish in a DARK container, and put that in a cooler with warm water or something like that. the dark container is important, because being dark will help the stress level of the fish. might wanna put something like stress coat or something in there too. you dont wanna do all this work to move your tank, then to have to empty it for a killer case of ich or something. good luck, i hated moving mine, least fun thing ive done in a long time.