Moving House

[30tooo]

I am moving house in about six weeks and was wondering how to move the fish and plants . I have access to a 2ft tank and a 3ft tank which are empty at the moment . The question is how to do what and when ? The house we are moving to will be empty for a couple of weeks before we get there if that helps ?

Any ideas ?

The tank at the moment is a 5 x 2 x 2 and contains

9 neon tetras
13 harlequins
4 swordtails
3 silver mollies
1 borneo sucker
1 talking catfish
4 guppies
6 black widow tetras
2 penguin tetras
3 silver hatchet fish
1 gold guorami
6 peppered corydors
and a few plants

 

[martyn21uk]

Is this like the farmer who had to cross the river with the fox, grain and chicken? You know the one?
Anyway I think you'd probably need to treat this in a very similar way. Have you got filters for your two smaller tanks? If so I'd set them up at your current home now, get them cycled and then run them in the two tanks and split your current stocking up. Then keeping your big tank filter in water etc to protect your bacteria, move the empty 5' tank to your new house, fill back up with water and get filter running. Then you'll have 3 tanks running, the 2 small ones with the fish and the big one empty. Then its just a case of moving the fish over as many or as few at a time as you can and re-homing them back into your big tank. Does that all make sense?

A couple of things to remember, once your big tank is empty, you're bacteria will have no source and will start to die back so you may need to add some ammonia to keep it cycled. Depending on how long it takes to go back and forth to move all of your fish you may have a period where it is under its bioload and again you may lose some bacteria so once filled at your new home, make sure you test every day to look out for a mini cycle and react accordingly.

Think that should do it?

 

[Tolak]

http/www.fishforums.net/So-You-Are-Movin...se-t129060.html

 

[30tooo]

Thanks for the responses . Both methods are clear to me . I had not thought about the filters bacteria dying slowly though . I knew I would have a problem with cycling the tanks , but it was more a question of time . I think I should be alright though .