Moving.

[Killian]

Quick question, I'm moving my 75g fish tank about 2 miles. I dont have a place for my fish while the tank is being moved. I was going to put him in a 5 gallon bucket until the tank is moved and setup at the new location. Whats the best way to go about doing this? Do I need to keep the water? Will it be ok to not save the water and fill the tank up with new water?

I just want the fish to be ok, my red devil has sort of grown on me. Its funny how a fish can do that when you only have one red devil since it was very young. Its now about 5 inches or so.

 

[driftwood]

You will need to keep the water and the current filtration as well. Fill as many 5 gallon buckets with tank water as you can and place the fish in those buckets. Take off the current filtration and keep it wet and get the new tank set up as soon as you can. If you have bio-wheels keep them in tank water as well. Your fish may not survive if you don't keep things in tact. If you add fresh water to your tank when you get it moved make sure you put Prime in the water before adding to your tank water. You should save as much of your current tank water as you can and work fast getting it set back up.

 

[japes]

What I did when replacing tanks was I kept the filter running on a 30L container while we set up the new tank (an all day affair).

2 Miles isn't far luckily, here's what I would do (and did, minus the transport).

Setup any large clean container thats water proof and transportable (aka you can pick it up with water in it), siphon the tank water into it, swap the filter onto it, then put the fish into it, he's not going to be happy either way. Clean out your tank or whatever you feel you need to do to get it ready for transport, don't bother keeping as much of the water as you can, it shouldn't be necessary.

Transport it and set it up at the new location while your filter is still running on your container at the current residence so your bio bacteria stays alive. 2 Miles away should mean you're on the same water supply, so same pH with the same decor/substrate etc, so I would fill your tank up once it's transported (don't forget to use a dechlorinator/ager like Seachem Prime!) and get the heaters running on it ASAP to get the heat to what your tank is currently set at, depending on how long you think this is going to take, sit and wait.

Once it's close, head back, unplug your filter and move the container with fish and filter to your car. If you're running canisters, just turn all the taps to off and keep the water in it, if you're running internals, sit them in the water, HoB's I'm not sure about, we like.. don't have them in Australia . Filter obviously can't be run so you should basically just floor it to your new residence and get it running on the new tank as soon as possible and get water running through it. Even if there's no source of ammonia it will stay alive for plenty of time while you acclimatise your fish, but stale/sitting water in a filter can quickly kill your bacteria.

Drain half of the container water or however much you need to drain so that you have room to double or triple of whats already in the container with your fish for acclimatisation. For the half an hour or so that you'll be dripping water into the container, set up all of your decor/play with your genitals/whatever, and after the water volume in the container has doubled-tripled, net your fish, introduce without using the old water, and top up with new aged water.

Should be no problem, good luck!

 

[haloman02]

What I did when replacing tanks was I kept the filter running on a 30L container while we set up the new tank (an all day affair).

2 Miles isn't far luckily, here's what I would do (and did, minus the transport).

Setup any large clean container thats water proof and transportable (aka you can pick it up with water in it), siphon the tank water into it, swap the filter onto it, then put the fish into it, he's not going to be happy either way. Clean out your tank or whatever you feel you need to do to get it ready for transport, don't bother keeping as much of the water as you can, it shouldn't be necessary.

Transport it and set it up at the new location while your filter is still running on your container at the current residence so your bio bacteria stays alive. 2 Miles away should mean you're on the same water supply, so same pH with the same decor/substrate etc, so I would fill your tank up once it's transported (don't forget to use a dechlorinator/ager like Seachem Prime!) and get the heaters running on it ASAP to get the heat to what your tank is currently set at, depending on how long you think this is going to take, sit and wait.

Once it's close, head back, unplug your filter and move the container with fish and filter to your car. If you're running canisters, just turn all the taps to off and keep the water in it, if you're running internals, sit them in the water, HoB's I'm not sure about, we like.. don't have them in Australia . Filter obviously can't be run so you should basically just floor it to your new residence and get it running on the new tank as soon as possible and get water running through it. Even if there's no source of ammonia it will stay alive for plenty of time while you acclimatise your fish, but stale/sitting water in a filter can quickly kill your bacteria.

Drain half of the container water or however much you need to drain so that you have room to double or triple of whats already in the container with your fish for acclimatisation. For the half an hour or so that you'll be dripping water into the container, set up all of your decor/play with your genitals/whatever, and after the water volume in the container has doubled-tripled, net your fish, introduce without using the old water, and top up with new aged water.

Should be no problem, good luck!

Very well put, I should have thought about that suggestion when dripping my fish. haha

 

[big dovii]

i kept a midas in a bucket for 3 days without a filter just a sponge filter cause his tank cracked.
he was a little pissed off when i put him in his new tank but he was fine.
i wouldnt be paranoid about it.
hes a darn cichlid. tough as nails.

 

[mbunafishkeeper]

japes has a good enough description do what he said.

make sure you plan out well and take time to have everything ready. you dont want things going wrong.

 

[mbunafishkeeper]

when we move tanks (around the house we have done this a fair bit lately) we just get a 15gal bucket fill it up about 13gal 80% with the tank water, take the sponges out of the internal filter and put the in the bucket and then put the fish in the bucket. with the external's just turn the taps off.

then start to take the tank apart, AFAP then move the stand to new place, then the tank. fill it up about 75% and have the filters and heaters running ASAP then put the fish in and the rest of the water from the tank.