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Im sure there are many different ways to go about moving fish but this is what worked for me.
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1st thing i did was remove and dry the sand since i didnt know how readily available garnet would be in my area. Turns out there an abrasives dealer 20 min from my new home lol.
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Next we prepared the bins. I used 2 55 gallon totes. One to house the bichirs for a few days before the actual move. The other sat in the back seat of my. With the lack of help and a bad back lifting the bin even with a small amount of water and fish was out of the question.
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We set the bins up with air pumps (added a second pump), cheap digital thermometers and a diy egg crate heater guard.
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Moved all the fish and bio.
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Dried the tank and sump out so it would stink up the moving truck.
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When it came time for the actual move i used a 25 gal bin to temporarily hold the fish while i doubled up the bins for the car ride. PBB ended up jumping and took a little trip under the car lol she was fine.
Thank god i used a tarp and 2x4 to level the bin out. The mvp of the move was the ratchet straps. All in all there was minimal spilling.
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I also chose to go with an inverter and my existing air pumps. The battery powered ones are just too weak for my liking. I also didnt want to deal with potentially changing batteries.
We had to stay in a hotel for two nights. The plan was to move the fish into the hotel room but that quickly got nixed. I ended up leaving them in the car and running the car/inverter during the day. I had to use the crappy battery powered pumps at night. Might have been unnecessary but i was very concerned with the congicus. IME they do not travel/ship well and you all know how much i love my congi's.
The fish sat for another week and a 1/2 in the bin while we got settled and unpacked.
All in all i think it was a success even though we lost our little dat. He did fine the whole time. Even stayed stable through the whole ordeal. During the 1st wc in the new house i found him crush under a bag of bio. He must have been hiding and the bag shifted, trapping him. I under estimated how strong these bichirs really are. They were easily moving and burying themselves under those heavy bags of bio.
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