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Post by kimberlie on May 7, 2009 10:23:02 GMT -6
We will be moving with in the next few months and I'm really dreading moving the tanks and fish...it was a little easier moving them when they were really small but now I got a couple bigger ones and last time we moved him he got really stressed out and almost died(our 5" convict male)..we actually "adopted" him he was in a tank that I recently bought the previous owner just half emptied the tank and left it in the garage for a week and a half...he said most of the water was rain water!!! But he's doing really good now I've got him and a yellow lab that was also adopted from the same tank in a 30 gal..untill we pick up a 55 tomorrow..but I've got 3, 30 gallons.(ones got 20 pink convict babies..the other has 2 firemouths).then ill have the55 gal..a 10 gal(Bettas home) and a 2gal(also home to a betta)...then a couple betta bowls..so I'm really not looking forward to this move..I would apprectaite any advice to move them safely and as stress-free as possible!! Thanks!!!
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Post by angel on May 7, 2009 10:34:32 GMT -6
Rain water is SO different from our water--did he get stressed when he went into the new water? If someone gives you fish that are in rainwater it's better I think to leave them in the water they're in and slowly over a period of days, weeks, whatever acclimate them to the new water by adding some in at different intervals. When I got rainwater fish I kept them in as much of it as I could and as evaporation happened and vac'ing out the gravel I'd add in house water. It went pretty well.
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Post by kimberlie on May 7, 2009 10:50:01 GMT -6
They guy said the tank sat in the back of a truck for a couple days and that's how it got rain water..so by the time we got him home he was not doing so good..I don't think it was all rainwater I think it was just a little accumulated from the time he spent in the truck...he was really weak and was almost layn on his side..the tank was less then half full after sittn there for sucha long time with no filter running I'm surprised he lived at all...so we scooped him out and put him I'm our tank after about a couple mins he perked right up and has been a happy boy ever since...I'm just scared to move him again..should I use a big container or something to transport him?
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Post by angel on May 7, 2009 10:56:25 GMT -6
There are power inverters I'd be tempted to put as many in a tank that you can have in the vehicle in their own water and heat and filter it on the way. Or at least run some air to it. They also have portable battery operated air pumps. It really bugs me how people treat their fish when they're tired of them. That guy was so mean to have put him in the back of a truck and let it just rain in there with no filter or anything!
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Post by kimberlie on May 7, 2009 11:11:03 GMT -6
I kno!!! Here's the story behind that tank..suposidly some friend of the guy we got it from was movn and didn't want the tank anymore so he brought it to the guy we bought it from..it sat in the truck bed gettn rained in for a couple days and then moved it into the garage where it sat for another week or so before we bought it..the tank was disgusting..aparently they put new cheap gravel in it but I don't think they rinsed it bc the water was blue..like the gravel..I found a beer cap in there and the poor pleco that was also in the tank was poopn blue for the last couple days..I'm sure he didn't feed them bc they been eatn like crazy ever since I got them home..but they are all troopers and doing good now..I will def check into those battery air pumps!! Thanks!!!
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Post by angel on May 7, 2009 11:46:03 GMT -6
Where I've seen them is in fishing supplies. Because keeping the minnows alive in the bucket for hours works better with air.
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Post by allierw on May 10, 2009 12:04:25 GMT -6
Is this a local move? We had to move our tanks to my mom's house when we put our house on the market/sold our house. She lives about 15-20 miles from our old house. We used 10 gallon plastic tubs with lids as those were the easiest to lift/stack/transport for the fish and plants. Big fish got their own tub (like my 12" red devil), else I normally put 3-5 tank members in each tub, depending on size/aggressiveness. I used tank water with an added dose of Seachem Prime to help minimize the stress.
It's important to make sure that your filter media does NOT dry out during the move--you want to keep your bacteria alive and happy so your tank does not undergo a major cycle after the move. We also tried to keep the fish in the tub a max of 2 hours, though that wasn't always possible. It's always an ordeal but everyone made it through the actual moving process alive.
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Post by pegasus2200 on May 10, 2009 17:13:04 GMT -6
When we moved ours from Knoxville to Nashville we put them in seperate 5 gallon pickle bucket (obviously well cleaned out) with their tank water. We even saved the mess under the gravel filters. Everyone made the 3+ hour trip perfectly fine. Each had a lid on them but not snapped down for air. When we moved a fw blocks away a year later, we just left them in their tanks with water just high enough to cover them. Again all made it fine. By this time we had fairly big fish. My Pacu was probably 10 inches, the devils were atleast 5 or 6 inches.
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