Moving house

[Rodders]

Ok, I currently have a Rio 125 tank with the fish in stated in my signature.
When I have my new larger tank in my new house I am going to redo my 125ltr tank.
So I have a few thoughts on how I should do it all to save time and money.

My large tank im going to buy will be within 2 months of moving to the new house. 145UK gallons.

Now do I

1. Leave my 125 at my old house (with parents) set up new tank and chuck all the fish in I have. Dont know if the tank has enough volume of water that toxins wont build up fast enough to kill them. But then I can move the smaller tank without worrying about setting it back up asap.

2. leave old tank at home and do a fast fishless cycle on new tank and then move all fish once its cycled. Then move small tank at own leasure again.

3. Move small tank and fish, keeping them in that tank, then set up new tank at leisure and put them in as I want.

Thing is all the time I leave my old tank at my house I will have to travell back there (about 35 mile round trip) to clean them out once a week. I can get my parents to feed them daily, but they dont seem too keen on cleaning them out and my brother wants me to pay him to do it.

So theres my dilema lol

 

[trace1]

think i would do move then put a day aside for the fish move & take them with you. that way you will have a new tank in a couple of months to start a fresh with new fish & everything. still trying to convince hubby to get me tank no 3 ) lol

 

[SarahBravo]

When are you moving? If you've got a couple of weeks, I would buy the filter for your new tank now. Squeeze your juwel filter media into the new filter media and then run both filters on your 125 till you move. Then move, set up the tank, then move the filter and all the fish over in one hit. Then set the 125 up again whenever you've got time.

Or if you're just getting a bigger Juwel tank, move the 125's filter media over to the new tank and put the fish in the same day.

I just love cloning tanks!

I would move the 125 when you move house, relying on other people is not good - they don't know as much as you about the fish and if they do something wrong you'll get stressy with them and they'll get upset cos they were only doing you a favour. (Been there done that, bought the T shirt)

HTH

 

[mr.dark-saint]

Things you will need to do it in one day; Enough plastic trash cans, submersible water pump, truck and a few labourers (as in friends). When I had to help my friend move out his 135 Gallon to his new place a few miles out. What we did was to go and buy four 55 gallon plastic garbage can (save the reciept). Drain out the tank water in to the trash cans. Three of them should hold enough tank water and the fourth one put all the gravel. Now the three will be used to house the occupants while you take the gravel and the tank to your new place (I needn't mention to move only empty tanks). Set it up while your helpers go for the second run (the occupants) and make sure they take the now empty can which had the gravel. Since the gravel was wet there shouldn't be much die offs also, by moving the filter at the same time would be a good thing.

The empty can will remain in the truck fill it up and add the fish from one of the three trash cans using the water pump (then repeate). Now put the water and fish in it'll be rather bad looking it'll clear up in no time. Since the move you may have lost or chose not to take some of the water (after all it is heavy). So top it off like it was a water change. After the task my friend being frugal (which means cheap ) he took the trash cans back to the place of purchase. So now you know why the reciept was held.

If I were to do this again I'd have him "Python" the tank about a week prior to the move to lessen the muck.

Now "Ideally" you have a second tank. Which you can set up (good excuse to buy a second tank ) at your new home. Now this would be nice for the long moves, like across few states. Not to say the other method isn't effective for longer moves but you'll lose more water. I suppose if you got foam coolers, fish bags and O2 you'll be doing it like the shippers. Just remember the tanks are the last thing to get broken down in all moves.

 

[Rodders]

I think ill set a day aside and move the tank with fish and set it back up in the new house.

Your right about leaving it in the hands of others and things going wrong.

Cheers