After 3 long months, I will be moving back into my newly renovated castle in a fortnight. Yay!
I have 2 tanks:
A 130l containing 13 Harlequin Rasboras, 3 BN Pleco's (I will be re-homing one as soon as they grow enough to sex), and a stack of mystery snails.
A 200l containing 5 Head and Taillight Tetras, 5 Crimson Spotted Rainbowfish, 12 Cherry Barbs and 1 BN Pleco (and a few mystery snails).
My suggested plan for the move back (having spent a whole day for each tank in the first move) is:
Starve the fish for a couple of days.
Shift the fish and snails from the 130l to the 200l.
Break down the 130l, move it, redecorate and refill it.
Shift all the fish from the 200l to the 130l.
(perhaps overnight depending on how low the sun is in the sky)
Break down the 200l, move it, redecorate and refill it.
Move the original contents of the 200l from the 130l so everything is back where it started.
Give them a treat so they still love me.
I'll be keeping the filter media wet during the move and taking all care to get the temperature in the tanks back to the level it's currently sitting at, so I think I'm doing the safest thing I can. It's about half an hour's drive between my temporary accommodation and my original house. I figured it's probably just as stressful on the fish to leave them in bags for the several hours it takes to move the tanks as it would be to shift them from tank to tank, so I thought this was a better way. The tank parameters are almost identical by the way.
Does this sound like a suitable plan? I don't think anything will eat anything else, so I'm not concerned about carnage - should I be? I also figure that 1 day of overstocking shouldn't cause too many issues.
I have 2 tanks:
A 130l containing 13 Harlequin Rasboras, 3 BN Pleco's (I will be re-homing one as soon as they grow enough to sex), and a stack of mystery snails.
A 200l containing 5 Head and Taillight Tetras, 5 Crimson Spotted Rainbowfish, 12 Cherry Barbs and 1 BN Pleco (and a few mystery snails).
My suggested plan for the move back (having spent a whole day for each tank in the first move) is:
Starve the fish for a couple of days.
Shift the fish and snails from the 130l to the 200l.
Break down the 130l, move it, redecorate and refill it.
Shift all the fish from the 200l to the 130l.
(perhaps overnight depending on how low the sun is in the sky)
Break down the 200l, move it, redecorate and refill it.
Move the original contents of the 200l from the 130l so everything is back where it started.
Give them a treat so they still love me.
I'll be keeping the filter media wet during the move and taking all care to get the temperature in the tanks back to the level it's currently sitting at, so I think I'm doing the safest thing I can. It's about half an hour's drive between my temporary accommodation and my original house. I figured it's probably just as stressful on the fish to leave them in bags for the several hours it takes to move the tanks as it would be to shift them from tank to tank, so I thought this was a better way. The tank parameters are almost identical by the way.
Does this sound like a suitable plan? I don't think anything will eat anything else, so I'm not concerned about carnage - should I be? I also figure that 1 day of overstocking shouldn't cause too many issues.
