new big tank

[laboul]

My sister wants to get rid of her big fish tank - I think it's a 30-40 gallon. Right now it has guppies and danios.

It will take me 24 hours to travel from her house to mine. My main concern is the tank. I'm guessing all the beneficial bacteria will have died over the 24 hour span. What's the consensus on moving a tank that distance? I think it would be extremely stressful to the fish to try to move them, too.... different water parameters, and then probable loss of bacteria and having to put these fish through another cycling... the poor danios have practically been cycled with once already, I don't want to do that to them again. It's not feasible for me to keep the fish while the new tank is cycling. I only have a 10 gallon. Any advice?

 

[laboul]

Anyone? Just want to know if the tank will need to be cycled again..

 

[Bloomjack]

if you transport the filter with its elements in a bbucket of the tank water then the bacteria wont die

Try to save some of the water in buckets. If you only empty 50% of the water then you can just add a bucket everyday to be safe when the tank is at its new home, and you will not neeed to cylce the tank. Remember to treat the new water you are adding

 

[laboul]

Great idea, thanks!

 

[Blue Lobster]

Fish get fedEx'd overnight all the time, they should live throughout your travels.


Leave a few inches of water in the bottom of the tank, just inflate a garbage bag inside the tank to keep it from sloshing around. It's like filling a cup with a balloon.


Pack them like this
http/www.atchison.com/ArticlesandStories/Shippingfish.html

Take some of your sister's water with you to help with the aclimation. Use a new storage tote or something. This way you can use some of that in your first few water changes.