Best Method (new Question)

[cowboy507]

i will be going back to college here soon, about a month away and i was wondering what the best method to transfer everything would be?
itll only be about an hour drive
here are some of my ideas:

put the fish in the plastic bags from the lfs, each species in separate bags (neons with neons, guppies with guppies, ect), put the media in its own bag and just move them like this
or
put all the fish in my 5 gal bucket that i use for water changes with tank water, plants, and media. i would fill the bucket only about half way to avoid any spillage.
or
just take the fish to a lfs, and buy new ones when i get up there. i am not particularly attached to any of the fish just yet

also i am assuming that i will probably have a mini cycle when i get the tank set back up, and will have to do this all over again. is this correct?

 

[cowboy507]

bump

 

[drobbyb]

That's a pretty short move. Bagging them up is a good idea. Make sure you keep your filter media wet or you will have to start over.

 

[waterdrop]

Yeah, its only an hour so its tempting to do some sort of quick type thing. But still, any highway drive has a slight chance of things going wrong and your fish will be a lot better bagged if something out of the ordinary happens, so I agree with Robby. (haha you're probably already home by now!) Bag'em up and put plenty of air above the water, perhaps some Prime in the water and acclimate them once you get there and do the usual testing to verify their environment is what you think it is.

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[cowboy507]

i was just planning on putting them in bags, this seemed easiest, and best. i dont move untill the beginning of august though.
the only thing i am worried about if my guppy fry, one just dropped and the other female is about to,
but i will try to make it as easy as possible, for them and me!

 

[waterdrop]

the fry might supply your larger fish with good travel snacks so you wouldn't have to stop as often (sorry, couldn't resist)

 

[cowboy507]

lmao, i like it, that does sound like a good idea! your always full of good ideas waterdrop

 

[cowboy507]

so i have encountered a new problem with this move.

The AC in my car has gone out and it will probably be well over 100F when i drive up to school.

will this be a huge problem?
what can i do to keep the fish at a tolerable temp?

 

[waterdrop]

drink/picnic coolers can keep off temp change for a pretty long time I think

edit:...plus I guess you could put one of those blue cooler things from a freezer in one side and separate it with some spaced insulated object so it wouldn't get the cool too close to any of the bags but would cool the whole thing a bit -- trouble is you won't want to open the top to test or anything because it would let in warm air

 

[cowboy507]

drink/picnic coolers can keep off temp change for a pretty long time I think

edit:...plus I guess you could put one of those blue cooler things from a freezer in one side and separate it with some spaced insulated object so it wouldn't get the cool too close to any of the bags but would cool the whole thing a bit -- trouble is you won't want to open the top to test or anything because it would let in warm air

alright i was thinking something like that. i might wrap some cooler stuff in a towel and put it in a cheep styrofoam cooler.

just out of curiosity how do people ship fish when it is very hot/cold? same process?

 

[waterdrop]

Actually I think a number of the more reputable places try to -stop- shipping during bad weather periods but I don't know how extensive that is. Tolak or some of the other mods I think have had great writeups in the past about the topic of shipping fish, you might try his name in some of your TFF searches for this info.

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