Moving the fish tank...

[B.Ho]

Ok so i'll be moving to a new house next weekend. I only have 1 tank with a home made 40gal wet/dry. I already figured out how to move the tank and fishes safely. The fish are going to be in their own 30gal rubbermaid bin with air stones and heaters during the move. Once i get the tank into the new home, im going to fill it and add amquel, my question is how long should i wait before i can add the fish back in? It will be all new water but with an already established filter with 1000+ bio balls.

 

[B.Ho]

Anybody?

 

[FishingOut]

Keep as much water as you can in the wet/dry, And use water from the current tank in the tub. This will completely save you from having to recycle the tank.
I dont know how you plan on running the heater and air while on the move unless you have some sort of battery supplied power, or generator.
Either way they should be fine. Amquel will definatly help with the stress from moving. If you keep all the same water and keep all your benefitial media alive then you will not have to wait long at all. Get the tank up and running, get the temp correct, Let the Amquel settle, and throw them in.

 

[B.Ho]

Keep as much water as you can in the wet/dry, And use water from the current tank in the tub. This will completely save you from having to recycle the tank.
I dont know how you plan on running the heater and air while on the move unless you have some sort of battery supplied power, or generator.
Either way they should be fine. Amquel will definatly help with the stress from moving. If you keep all the same water and keep all your benefitial media alive then you will not have to wait long at all. Get the tank up and running, get the temp correct, Let the Amquel settle, and throw them in.

Yea i plan on keeping water in the wet/dry to keep the BB alive. And i will be using my tank water in the bins for the fishes. The move isn't very far it's about 15 minutes away from where i am now so the fish will be in the bins for a short time before i get them to the new house where there will be outlets for me to plug in the heater and air pumps.

I was just wondering how long it would be after adding the new treated water into the tank before i can add the fishes back in. Don't want them in the bins for too long. Thanks for the input

Nice quote from Slug by the way

 

[aclockworkorange]

Check the ph in your new place to see how different it is from your old water (obviously test their tank water too)... drastic changes in ph can lead to ph shock. I wouldn't even mess with the airstone if it's only 15 minutes away, they will have plenty of oxygen.

I would:
1. Catch all fish right before the move and put them in the rubbermaid, move them directly to your heated car.
2. Drain tank, keep sump wet, move that and your other tank stuff to car.
3. Drive over to new place, unload fish in bin into house, check on them.
4. Setup tank, fill with water as close to temp you want to keep it at, adding your dechlorinator (sounds like you're using amquel, that's fine). Amquel (and anything else) dechlorinates in a couple minutes at most. At this point you have to decide if you need to acclimate them to the new ph. Your beneficial bacteria is mostly in your gravel/sand, and in your sump, not the water column, by the way.
5. If necessary, acclimate, either by drip acclimating or dumping small amounts of water from your new treated tap water in to the rubbermaid.
6. When rubbermaid water reads the same ph as the tank water, net the fish out and put them in the tank.

Done.

 

[B.Ho]

Check the ph in your new place to see how different it is from your old water (obviously test their tank water too)... drastic changes in ph can lead to ph shock. I wouldn't even mess with the airstone if it's only 15 minutes away, they will have plenty of oxygen.

I would:
1. Catch all fish right before the move and put them in the rubbermaid, move them directly to your heated car.
2. Drain tank, keep sump wet, move that and your other tank stuff to car.
3. Drive over to new place, unload fish in bin into house, check on them.
4. Setup tank, fill with water as close to temp you want to keep it at, adding your dechlorinator (sounds like you're using amquel, that's fine). Amquel (and anything else) dechlorinates in a couple minutes at most. At this point you have to decide if you need to acclimate them to the new ph. Your beneficial bacteria is mostly in your gravel/sand, and in your sump, not the water column, by the way.
5. If necessary, acclimate, either by drip acclimating or dumping small amounts of water from your new treated tap water in to the rubbermaid.
6. When rubbermaid water reads the same ph as the tank water, net the fish out and put them in the tank.

Done.

Nice thanks, I was going to put the air stones just in case i had to leave the fish in the rubbermaid bins over night thinking that i should let the new water dechlorinate for at least the night. Thanks for the info