Moving tips...

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MoFish78

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Hey everyone, I'm moving from San Francisco to San Luis Obispo on monday. It's a 3 hour drive :WHOA: ... my problem now is transferring my Afr Cichlids and Flowerhorns.

What's the best way to do it? Will my fish survive the 3 hour trip in a bucket or a tank? Has anyone done this before? I'll just be transporting them in buckets (flowerhorn) and/or a 40 gallon tank for the african cichlids on monday.


I will be setting up the tanks in San Luis Obispo this saturday. But will bring the fish monday.

thanks for all the tips/help!
 
I am going to have a similar problem come sept, i'll at least bump this for you!!
 
i used a cooler for a 6 hour move. i have also used a rubber maid tote for shorter trips. i have read somewhere.... that they make portable air stones. cant remember where i read that or where to buy them...
 
Use the buckets not tanks! Tank seems can bust and that would be a bummer! Don't feed the fish a for a couple days before the move. Use a bubbler or bag with 100% O2. The cooler idea above sounds good as well! Good luck and watch out for the speed trap in King City!
 
go to walmart, buy the $16 power inverter and hook up air pumps while you drive :)
 
dragonfish18;3133119; said:
try a cooler with an air hose
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thats what im going to be using for my 9hr drive when i move. battery powered air pumps attatched to large cool boxes. the air hoses will go through drilled holes in the lid and the lines will attatch to filter boxes filled with the bio media out of my filter. the cool boxes will be filtered to some degree.
 
For a long drive like that 9 hour one somebody mentioned, the inverter and air pumps or a battery powered air pump(they're available). I used a cheap plastic 30 gallon garbage can bought specifically for fish. Duct tape the lid in place and cut about a 1 foot hole in the middle of it. Minimizes splash slop. Secure it before you start moving, tie it in place, duct tape it, lock it in place with boxes, because it will try to shift once you start.

Never move a tank with water in it, except by hand, stress to the seams is incredible with even 3" of water. You can't guarantee that you won't have to make an emergency stop and it only takes one. Going around a corner too fast can do it even(I've done that myself).
 
I forgot zeolite. Zeolite works in absence of a filter for short periods if you don't have salt in the water.
 
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