Advice On Moving My 4ft Tank & Setting Up Another

[Johnnyg]

Hi

I need to move my 30 gallon tank and am unsure how to do this. It only needs moving about 8ft and of course it way to heavy to shift full of water. It is home to about 40 guppies of various ages including plenty of fry. I do have two 5 gallon containers so I can keep about one third of the water, how much of the water is it safe to change without harming my fish?

I am getting a second smaller tank this week (5 gallon) and intend setting this up using water from my established tank, am I ok to put fish in this straightawayas I will be using water from the water change on my 30 gallon tank? The plan is to set this tank up and then I can temporarily use it to home all the fish whilst I move the 30 gallon.

Any thoughts, ideas and suggestions greatly appreciated.

Johnny

 

[moll]

Are you using established filter media in your new tank if not is it possible to add your new filter to your existing tank to mature the media before you set it up or at least add media from your existing filter to your new one if not you will need to cycle the tank fully before you add any fish. It is not the water that contains the bacteria but the filter media.

personally Id try to run the new filter in the old tank alongside the existing one for a week to ensure they are both kept mature, I'd then move the new tank to where you plan to keep it set it up with existing water and put the fish in I'd then keep as much existing water as possible in containers then remove as much water as I needed from the tank to be able to move it replace the water and get the filter running again as soon as possible by adding the minimum amount of new water to ensure it runs, like a very large water change I'd then add the fish to the tank possibly acclimatising them first it there is any variation when you do a water test (you shouldn't need to for the smaller tank if you use mature media and the same water.

I'm not sure how others would do this but its how I would. I also find the battery gravel vac from Argos very good for syphoning water from tank to tank.

Are you keeping the smaller tank as a fry tank or not?

 

[Johnnyg]

Thanks for the reply moll.

I shall get the filter from the new tank running in the existing tank for a week and then when I do my next weekly water change I shall add the water from the exisiting tank to the new tank. At that point would it be ok to add a few fish?

Not entirely sure what the end use for the new tank will be, might use it just for male guppies as tank number one is becoming rather busy........these guppies sure know how to breed!