Moving House

[ClairePass]

I have just been told i am moving to portsmouth with work. I currently live in leeds. Its a trip of about 300 miles. Is there any way i could take my fishes. Would they survive the journey??? I'm lost i don't want to leave them with my friends but may not have any choice

 

[breezer40]

It will need some planning but there is no reason why you could not take the fish.

The first thing I would do is go to your LFS and ask him/her for some polystyrene boxes and fish bags. . . Make sure they are big enough to allow the fish to move and fill with 1/3 of your tank water leaving 2/3 for air. Put the filled bags into the polystyrene boxes and seal the boxes with tape.

The filter will need to be kept wet so figure a way of doing that.

When you get to the other end Fill the tank with water, put the filter back in and aclimatise the fish as you would if they were new. Keep an eye of the water incase the filter bacteria has started to die off and if the test show any ammonia or nitrite do 50% water changes till everything is back to normal.

 

[Jen]

That sounds like soemone has some experience in moving fish. You have it down to a science.

 

[breezer40]

That sounds like soemone has some experience in moving fish. You have it down to a science.

Your right there only I had nearly 20 tanks to move!

 

[smithrc]

we have just (as in today) moved all our fish to my parents so that we have next weekend to move ourselves

having spent the last 2 days doing it - its not too difficult...

one thing I will be doing differently when we move them to their final home - sealable buckets for the fish. we had to re think the bags for the clown loaches and the plecs due to holes in bags

On a trip like that bring the water up a couple of degrees before packing to give a bit longer at a good temp.

just to reasure you, we used bags in the poly boxes and after a 2 hour wait the temp had bearly moved. (we packed the air gaps with bubble wrap to help too)

we took down our 4ft and boxed the fish at that point. then moved the tank and set it back up. (keeping the gravel and the filters wet) we then set the tank back up and put the fish back in after the tank was up to temperature. we then did it with our next larges tank (that was yerturday).

today we condensed two more tanks into the already setup tanks... 5 tanks of filters now running in 2 tanks.

thankfully we can leave the tanks at my parents untill we are setup in our new house.