I'm moving in mid August..

[kevin007]

I am moving around mid August And i have to move a 55 Gallon tank. This is what i plan to do and i may be missing some steps i should take, so please see if this is the best way to move a 55 gallon fish tank

1. Take out 50 percent water
2. Take out decorations
3. Bag all the fish
4. Keep The gravel and filter media wet with tank water
5. Dump out all the water in tank
6. Set up a 10 gallon tank in the new house and put all the fish in
7. Set up the 55 Gallon tank at new house using new treated water
8. Add filter and all the gravel/ decorations in.
9. Wait 24hrs then put the fish in the next day
10. Enjoy watching the fishes

 

[IMCL85]

dude you know how heavy it is keeping 27.5 g of water/gravel also the tank as well. Make sure u wouldn't drop it during transportation. If I were u I would just empty the water to some buckets and take the buckets of water to ur new home and wait for ur tank to arrive.

 

[kevin007]

dude you know how heavy it is keeping 27.5 g of water/gravel also the tank as well. Make sure u wouldn't drop it during transportation. If I were u I would just empty the water to some buckets and take the buckets of water to ur new home and wait for ur tank to arrive.

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what? is a bucket with gravel and a little bit of water really that heavy?
The water dont contain the bacteria i need to cycle, the bacteria is in the gravel and mainly in the filter.

 

[IMCL85]

Nono I mean when ur bucket ur fish and stuff make sure they dont drop out, I once help a friend of mine moving his house he have his fish pack up in a bucket and some ppl drop the bucket druing transportation and he only manage to save like a few . So its better take the fish to ur new home first then wait for ur tank arrive. And 24 hours with all new tank of water is not enought even with filter and gravel. I would go for 2-3 days. But its up to you good luck.

 

[kevin007]

Nono I mean when ur bucket ur fish and stuff make sure they dont drop out, I once help a friend of mine moving his house he have his fish pack up in a bucket and some ppl drop the bucket druing transportation and he only manage to save like a few . So its better take the fish to ur new home first then wait for ur tank arrive. And 24 hours with all new tank of water is not enought even with filter and gravel. I would go for 2-3 days. But its up to you good luck.

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i never said i was going to bucket my fish...i said i was gonna bag them. My fish and tank are gonna get to the new house in the same day. I would like to see other's oppinion on the bacteria problem

 

[rvm]

And 24 hours with all new tank of water is not enought even with filter and gravel. I would go for 2-3 days. But its up to you good luck.

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Yes it is, and if you leave it 2-3 days without fish, then you risk losing all the bacteria you had in the first place and would have to cycle the tank again!! as long as the water you put in the tank is roughly the same temperature as it was before and not freezing cold!!
I've just moved a 140g and a 20g just like that and lost no fish! The only things i did differently was that I put an oxygenating tablet in each box of fish (I put my fish in poly boxes not bags as most of my fish are too big for bags!) and one in each filter (or bucket of media/gravel in your case), and as soon as I got the tanks set up and filled, I added my fish to them straight away. If you are keeping your gravel and media, you are creating a clone of your tank as it was; as long as the water is the right temp, and not massively different chemistry then your fish will be fine

 

[CFC]

Ive got to agree, ive moved house twice with my fish and did it exactly that way and ive never suffered a loss.

 

[yvez9]

I moved a month ago and bagged all my fish and filter media

i flushed the rest of the water

filled back my tasnks at my new place and adapted my fish the same way i do when i buy new fish

all the fish are fine!

 

[abstract]

i just moved this weekend..had to move a 5g, 10g, 20g, and 46g...

the little tanks i left 1/2 or 1/3 full of water and transported with fish in there (2 hours total time by the time they were loaded into a car, transported, and refilled)....

the 46 gallon i..
1) emptied 50% water
2) removed all fish to a 5g bucket filled 3/4 with tank water (it was crowded but they managed - i didn't have the time to bag each fish)
3) put the filters and deocorations in a garbage bag (lol)
4) emptied the rest of the water
5) carried the tank down a flight of stairs by myself and loaded it into my girlfriends saturn
6) also loaded the stand by myself into the tiny saturn - no way these were going in my new 2-door lol
7) refilled tank and acclimated fish with a drip method (airline tube, paper clip, and the 5g bucket)
8) added fish to tank after 45 mins of acclimation, no deaths

good luck!