I'm Moving House.

[adeliene]

I am moving in a week and i need to move my tropical fish I have a Biube 35 ltr tank and have only been keeping fish for 4 months. so I am a novice. Will the fish survive a 9 hours journey before I can get them back into a tank.I brought the fish at a Keston Aquarium. they said the fish wouldn't survive. Can I buy some kind of heat pack to keep the temperature correct?
Hope you can advise me THANKS!
from adeliene

 

[aly_starh]

Hi!

Id advise putting them in a polysterene cooler box, with a heatpack.
Bag up all the fish individually, with 1/3 water:2/3 oxygen, and they should be fine

 

[Tolak]

There's a good article that covers most everything here. Fish certainly will survive a 9 hour trip, I regularly have fish in bags for 12+ hours when auctions are concerned. Many others do the same, the fish, if bagged properly do just fine.

I have to wonder how that shop gets fish shipped in if they won't survive 9 hours in a bag. 24 hours is a normal amount of time for fish that are shipped, often it is closer to 48 hours.

 

[shi24137]

well there is a converter you can buy' it converts your cigarette lighter into a plug so you could plug your heater in and keep their temp up. but you would have to stop and airate the water like every 2-3hrs. if you want to keep them in the tank i would suggest draining it to about 20% maybe 10% and keeping it in the front seat' maybe on a flat surface so you can keep a good eye on how the fish are doing. im no expert but that is just how i would do it.

 

[ajs2294]

I have read stories of people moving with fish and keeping them in containers for 6 days! A day should be no problem if done correctly. Check out this article its pretty helpful My link

 

[Tolak]

Never move a tank with anything in it, water, substrate, nothing. Tanks are only stable in a static position, moving with contents put stress on the seams & such, risking a leak in the future.

My fish are often bagged for 3 hours before they leave the house, a 5 hour drive to an auction is not uncommon. Those fish are not being auctioned off until 10 hours after they are bagged, my purchases are not getting acclimated until 10 hours beyond that. I do this all the time, about every other weekend.

 

[adeliene]

Hi!

Id advise putting them in a polysterene cooler box, with a heatpack.
Bag up all the fish individually, with 1/3 water:2/3 oxygen, and they should be fine

Thanks I'll get a cooler box and take a few with me.

There's a good article that covers most everything here. Fish certainly will survive a 9 hour trip, I regularly have fish in bags for 12+ hours when auctions are concerned. Many others do the same, the fish, if bagged properly do just fine.

I have to wonder how that shop gets fish shipped in if they won't survive 9 hours in a bag. 24 hours is a normal amount of time for fish that are shipped, often it is closer to 48 hours.

Hi!

Id advise putting them in a polysterene cooler box, with a heatpack.
Bag up all the fish individually, with 1/3 water:2/3 oxygen, and they should be fine

Thanks I'll get a cooler box and take a few with me.

There's a good article that covers most everything here. Fish certainly will survive a 9 hour trip, I regularly have fish in bags for 12+ hours when auctions are concerned. Many others do the same, the fish, if bagged properly do just fine.

I have to wonder how that shop gets fish shipped in if they won't survive 9 hours in a bag. 24 hours is a normal amount of time for fish that are shipped, often it is closer to 48 hours.

thanks for all the information, i think i will manage to take them with me

Never move a tank with anything in it, water, substrate, nothing. Tanks are only stable in a static position, moving with contents put stress on the seams & such, risking a leak in the future.

My fish are often bagged for 3 hours before they leave the house, a 5 hour drive to an auction is not uncommon. Those fish are not being auctioned off until 10 hours after they are bagged, my purchases are not getting acclimated until 10 hours beyond that. I do this all the time, about every other weekend.

Thanks for your help. I really love my fish and now I feel confident with moving them.