Help! Moving tanks setup tanks

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ColeFishing

Jack Dempsey
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Recently my aquariums have been under. After recovery from an ich outbreak(killing my L129 and 2 petricolas) and a bad ammonia spike(killing my Lima). And now,my parents want to redo the carpet in my room. This means I have to move all four of my tank out for carpet installation. I had the idea of just saving all the water in tubs, moving the tank, then just adding the same water with the fish back in. Is this fine or is there a better way?


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I have moved tanks a number of times. Used a new trash can for the tank water and just siphoned it back in after the move. In approximately 8 moves, only lost 1 fish! Good luck.
 
Not much BB in water so you don't have to keep all of it. I would get some tubs and transfer the fish, filters, and substrate into them.
 
why do you want to keep the water? don't keep all of it. then its like doing a big fresh water change. I recently moved my 225 to my new house and I used completely new water except for what was in the filters that was running. The only casualty I had was from my pink tailed chalceus slamming into the glass and knocking himself unconcious / breaking his back. and that could have happened at any time in any place.

If you are really worried about quality, keep 80% of your water in rubber maid tubs. I got them from walmart at 10 dollars each. 3 of them was enough to contain 70 gallons of water for my marine set up.
 
Rafini said:
why do you want to keep the water? don't keep all of it. then its like doing a big fresh water change. I recently moved my 225 to my new house and I used completely new water except for what was in the filters that was running. The only casualty I had was from my pink tailed chalceus slamming into the glass and knocking himself unconcious / breaking his back. and that could have happened at any time in any place.

If you are really worried about quality, keep 80% of your water in rubber maid tubs. I got them from walmart at 10 dollars each. 3 of them was enough to contain 70 gallons of water for my marine set up.
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Because its already cycled. If you get rid of all the water and just add all fresh water I'm pretty sure that would kill my fish.


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ColeFishing said:
Because its already cycled. If you get rid of all the water and just add all fresh water I'm pretty sure that would kill my fish.


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Well I just did it, I kept the filters set up with the bacteria and about 25% of the tank water. then the rest 75% was fresh new water. all of my fish survived and because I kept the filter bacteria alive and in the other water, the cycle was not broken. when I introduced the filters to the full tank it was all the same temperature and my old water had mixed with the 75% new water, then went through my filters that were all cycled.

Have you never heard of someone doing large 50% plus water changes before? it definately doesn't kill your fish.
 
ColeFishing said:
Because its already cycled. If you get rid of all the water and just add all fresh water I'm pretty sure that would kill my fish.
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That's pretty much like saying "a large water change will kill all my fish" which is not the case, the bulk of your bb is in your filter and then the substrate not the water. Keep the substrate wet with tank water via rubbermaid tote as mentioned and you can run your filters on them, if it won't be long and you don't want to run the filters keep the media submerged in some of the water you saved. This is honestly how I would do it, you can even store your fish in the filtered rubbermaids with your heater in them. It's not meant to sound harsh but to give you easy options and make you feel safe.
 
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