Traveling with discus?

[lunker65]

Temp stability is one reason I did it as well. Even it being 90 degrees outside, my water stayed at 75 the whole time. Try to cool your water down as much as you can without hurting your fish. The water will hold more o2 that way. Also don't use tank water. It will have suspended organic matter in it and make your ammonia go up with no filtration to combat that. You may have known this already but just thought I would throw it out there in case you didn't.

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[joe jaskot]

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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Double bag the fish and put them in an insulated cooler or fish box. No flooding involved. It's how fish are shipped around the world. With oxygen added to the bag, no need for a bubbler.

 

[Slick Fish]

Temp stability is one reason I did it as well. Even it being 90 degrees outside, my water stayed at 75 the whole time. Try to cool your water down as much as you can without hurting your fish. The water will hold more o2 that way. Also don't use tank water. It will have suspended organic matter in it and make your ammonia go up with no filtration to combat that. You may have known this already but just thought I would throw it out there in case you didn't.

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Actually I didn't so should I get ro water would that help and how cold can discus get before its too cold. And to combat the air problem I was going to use a bubbler.


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[lunker65]

For the bubbler, they make kits for making your cooler a live well. They only cost like 30ish bucks and have a foam filter on them. I bet if you seed that foam, you could have a bit of bio filter in it. The kit is a water pump with a spraybar to create surface disturbance that airates the water and gives you good circulation.

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[Slick Fish]

For the bubbler, they make kits for making your cooler a live well. They only cost like 30ish bucks and have a foam filter on them. I bet if you seed that foam, you could have a bit of bio filter in it. The kit is a water pump with a spraybar to create surface disturbance that airates the water and gives you good circulation.

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Thanks a bunch.


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[7napoleon]

Double bag the fish and put them in an insulated cooler or fish box. No flooding involved. It's how fish are shipped around the world. With oxygen added to the bag, no need for a bubbler.

I think joe is right. I have use a 18 gallons plastic box with a 110 gph canister filter and a air pump to transport my fishes in a 9 hour trip. All the smaller fishes are dead. Large ones are dying. I think it will be much better if I double pack them into a bag that full of oxygen. Because I never receive dead fish when buying fish online. Once I have ordered a pair of arowanas, and they survive in bag for 80 hours ...


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[lunker65]

I think joe is right. I have use a 18 gallons plastic box with a 110 gph canister filter and a air pump to transport my fishes in a 9 hour trip. All the smaller fishes are dead. Large ones are dying. I think it will be much better if I double pack them into a bag that full of oxygen. Because I never receive dead fish when buying fish online. Once I have ordered a pair of arowanas, and they survive in bag for 80 hours ...


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mine were in the coolers for three days with no losses.