Best way to transfer tanks to new house?

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Adamrhh

Adamrhh

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the house is like 20 minutes away from the current house, how would one say a 75 gallon tank and move it to the other house with less stress on the fish?

What I would do:
Plastic tub
Tank water
battery bubbler
Not worried about heater because it would be in heated car then house.

So what I was going to do is fill up a tub with tank water and put fish in there. Take another tub and save like 20 gallons worth of water and dump the rest. Completely empty the tank and move it to the house and set it up so probably an hour work then come back get the fish and other water and take them to the house fill up the tank with new water then add the 20gallons or so of old tank water set up filter/heater too make sure it was around the same as the old temp then drip for like 20 minutes then add them into the "new" tank? would that work?
 
20 minutes? why waste the effort to lug the water when the stuff coming out of the tap is the same as what's in the tank? fill the tank, dechlor, add stuff, connect filter, insert fish.
 
i actually just moved a couple of tanks to a new house.. what i did was get a couple tubs and fill those up, put the fish in those, then just refill the tanks with tap water and pour the tub with fish right into the tank.. easy and simple
 
I would think that keeping the BB alive in your filter would be the biggest concern. If you keep that alive, moving shouldn't be too stressful on the fish when you set up their tank again.

I probably be a bit anal and do a few more water changes than normal for the first month or two knowing me.


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This is how I moved my 36 50 and 120 put fish in a couple dfifrent tubs put substrate in a tub with just enough water to keep it submerged no bubbler needed that was with a large ck and aro and many other fish one thing i did do was vacum gravel realy good 3 days before hand. Actualy had wife do tanks so I could keep on moving. Not a single tank went through a recycle and zero fatality. Oh on my hob filters I threw the media in water and left my can full of water. That was in febuary up here. The water sloushing around was enough to keep the oxygen in the water. No reason to bring all that old nasty water with you. I just treated mine with prime like I do every water change
 
I just move 3 tanks, 180gal, 100gal, and 1 tank is a 75gal DIY sump. Kept sump in tact and empty fish to my mom bathtub. Move tank refill it with tap and ran sump for a day with the bb and stability by seachem. Been almost 2 weeks and everyone of my 104 fish is alive. :) I bag each one using a balloon pump for oxygen in bags. My move was only 15min, but better safe then sorry.


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Just put the fish in a bucket and move the tank. As long as your using the same equipment and substrate you should be ok. When I moved in the summer to my current house I toke my tank down moved everything then once I got everything moved I set up the tank. It was about ten hours give or take a few hours between empty and refill.i didn't lose one fish.


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