Traveling with discus?

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Slick Fish

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Curious to know if anyone has had experience with traveling with discus in a car? The longest trip I've had with fish from my LFS has been about 1 in a bag.

I plan on having them in a 5 gallon bucket with heater, digital thermometer and bubbler.

Any advise or comments will greatly appreciated.

The trip will be about 24 hours long but I plan on stopping to do water changes.

Thoughts?


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I just did a move with about 25 fish involved. I used a large igloo cooler. Inside, it had a live well pump that cool bubbles makes. You can get them at Walmart for like 35 bucks. I cut off the end wires and put a cigerette lighter plug on the end I got from cabelas and just plunged it in. Mine survived several days in there like that. No water change needed. Just stop feeding them a few days ahead of time so they don't foul there water. I kept a bottle of am guard close at hand just in case. I also put one of them seachem ammonia alert things in there so I can check that at a glance.

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Slick Fish said:
Awesome so no troubles or fish loss?


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None before they got into the tank. I lost one a day after but he was beat up before the move started. It didn't help the first thing it did was bolt straight into the side of the tank. But one out of that many isn't that bad IMO. I've heard of much worse. How big are your discus? And how many?

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I should also mention, that I accually used three coolers and some insulated bait buckets as 4 of the fish were a foot long

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What I did was silicone some dividers in the coolers to seperate the fish. At least the different kinds. I used sheet plexiglass from the hardware store for dividers. Be sure to drill plenty of holes in it to allow water flow from one side of the cooler to the other. Good time to practice your siliconing skills lol.

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You are better off putting the fish in plastic bags with oxygen. Less chance of them getting hurt. Fish are shipped every day around the world in plastic bags, not buckets.
 
joe jaskot said:
You are better off putting the fish in plastic bags with oxygen. Less chance of them getting hurt. Fish are shipped every day around the world in plastic bags, not buckets.
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I was going to put them in a cooler for temperature stability and driving for 24 hours and having them in a flimsy bag won't do it for me. Don't want to risk flooding my car.


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