Newbie With Questions

[kokorobosoi38]

Hi there

As it says, I was willed a number of fishtanks from someone I am almost positive was a member of these forums. Her name was Sakura, and she and her family died in a car wreak recently. Her tanks have been in her house for about 2 weeks without any care, and I am going to pick them up tommorrow. I will be transporting whatever I find there about an hour in the car, and any advice would be great.

I havent owned fish for several years, and they were just a ten gallon of guppies. I know she had freshwater tanks, most of them with plants, and a few seahorse or nemo fish tanks. I will be moving the tanks, the occupants, and any equipment I find, and I have no idea of how to go about this. I have been looking through the forums, but if any of you have any tips, hints, or disasters to look out for...I'd love to hear them.

I will be heading down there early tommorow morning, so please, help!

 

[piePIEpie]

those are called clown fish not nemo fish

 

[coldcazzie]

Try to find a fish shop and ask them for a load of bags to bag up the fish - put the fish in bags with about 1/3 water and 2/3 air. Then if you can find some of those polystyrene boxes they will be great to put the fish in because they keep the heat really well. If no fish shop/boxes, buckets with lids! Don't want to lose any fish who decide to make a jump for it! Also, make sure you keep the filters in tank water so the bacteria don't die in air. Take all the water out of the tanks, and everything else as well because the tanks are very fragile (sure you know that already!!). You can throw most of the old tank water away, just make sure to use dechlor on the new tank water as it will be a very large water change. Take some man power if possible - any larger tanks will need several people to move them.

That's all I can think of at the moment. Never had marine though, only tropical, so there might be some more specific stuff to watch out for with those...

Many condolences for your loss hope all goes well tomorrow.