How To Move A Tank To Another House

[mercedesruiz]

Hello!!

I am going to move to another house and i'm a little concerned about my 2 aquariums.

I have a 5 gallon tank with a Betta and a 20 gallon tank with 2 platties, 1 algae eater and 1 molly.

What do you suggest me to do about how to move my tanks? i can move my fish in a small plastic container, but what about the glass tanks? they are too heavy to transport them filled with water, but if i throw away all the water will the biological filter be messed up?

Please advice.

Thanks!!

 

[snazy]

You need to make sure the filters are in water somehow when trasporting so they don't dry out.
The water doesn't matter bacteria wise but it would be nice if you can keep some of it in containers like 5L bottles or similar because the different place may have completely different type of water and you don't want to shock them too much. Read about drip acclimating fish and do it this way once you fill up the tanks in the new place. Keep the decor like rocks and driftwood moist too if you can.
 
What I would do is keep some water at least to fill up two buckets where you can keep the inhabitans, connect the filters in these buckets with the fish in while you are setting up the tanks in the new place. Then I'd would fill the tanks with dechlorinated/temperature matched water and start drip acclimating the fish with water from the relevant tank. You can move the filters right before the drip acclimation and keep them running in the newly setup tanks, topping up with dechlorinated water as needed while you drain at the same time to drip acclimate your fish into the buckets. You still need to monitor ammonia and nitrItes and jump in to do water changes if needed afterwards.