easylistener Posted February 24, 2004 Share Posted February 24, 2004 It looks like I am going to be moving. I have a 75 gallon Aquarium full of fish. Does anyone know how to move them with out killing them? My son would hate me if I killed any of them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T_Shomaker Posted February 24, 2004 Share Posted February 24, 2004 Is it a saltwater tank or a freshwater tank? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
damonrpayne Posted February 24, 2004 Share Posted February 24, 2004 Dan: I had a friend with a huuuuge tank and he actually found a service that specializes in this exact thing. They come to your house to move the tank. He moved from port washington to Waukesha with no issues. Call a pet store and they should be able to point you to the right place. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
easylistener Posted February 24, 2004 Author Share Posted February 24, 2004 It is freshwater which will make it a little easyer. I just don't have a lot of money to pay someone. I was thinking of coolers. It is about a 20 min drive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T_Shomaker Posted February 24, 2004 Share Posted February 24, 2004 When my stepdad has moved his fish before he just put them in a 2 liter pitcher with their tank water in it. When I buy my saltwater fish from the store they put them in a plastic bag with their water and some oxygen. How big is the tank and how many fish are in it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ccsakura Posted February 24, 2004 Share Posted February 24, 2004 Get the thicker bags in pet shops(which is similar to the one you get when u get the fish from them). Put those fish in and move them? Rest of the plants/etc just left them into the tank and cut half the water off when you drive?(If you can't move the tank you have to get a truck from friends or some service). BTW if u do this way remember to balance the temperature inside the bag and the tank again before u put the fish into the bag or back to the tank(they don't regulate their tempature, you can't throw them into cold water bath in seconds, they can't make it). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tankhokie Posted February 24, 2004 Share Posted February 24, 2004 agree w/the water temp stabilization another big thing is sloshing the fish around...fish don't do well when sloshing back and forth. my neighbor said she has killed numerous fish in cars (coolers and bags) that way, so be careful! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tankhokie Posted February 24, 2004 Share Posted February 24, 2004 sorry double posted Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T_Shomaker Posted February 24, 2004 Share Posted February 24, 2004 You have to transport fish in bags because there is no other way to move them unless you walk them to where you need to go. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
easylistener Posted February 26, 2004 Author Share Posted February 26, 2004 Man this is going to be time comsoming. I have like 20 fish and they are all pretty big. I don't even know If I can find a bag big enough for the sucker fish. What do I do with some of the eggs that they have just layed? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gtDark Posted February 26, 2004 Share Posted February 26, 2004 Put it on a California roll? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olorin Posted February 26, 2004 Share Posted February 26, 2004 ---------------- On 2/24/2004 5:12:43 PM easylistener wrote: It looks like I am going to be moving. I have a 75 gallon Aquarium full of fish. Does anyone know how to move them with out killing them? My son would hate me if I killed any of them. ---------------- I moved a 125 gallon aquarium about 11 years ago. It was a six and a half hour drive from A to B. I had great success using ice chests to hold the fish. I had about fifteen good sized fish, and I distributed them among about three of the ice chests. Your 20 minute drive is cake. If you really want to minimize stress on the fish, get a couple of 33 gallon plastic trash cans, or a handful of 12 gallon plastic bins, or a bunch of five gallon buckets . . . you get the picture . . . and move as much of your tank water as you reasonably can. pH shock is more important than temperature shock. Oh, and try to leave your gravel bed alone, and keep it wet for the move. My 125 was an acrylic tank, so my cousin and I just muscled it up onto a dolly with an inch of water still over the gravel and rolled that into the trailer. If you have a glass tank you probably want to put your gravel into buckets, and top it over with water. Once your gravel is not submerged you start to lose your bacteria in just a few minutes -- like 30 of them. After your friends are back in their home, you can use a half dose of . . . shoot, what's it called . . . Nox-ich? Rid-Ich? Whatever the brand, it's malachite green, and you'd usually add a drop per gallon for infected fish. A drop per two or three gallons is a good preventive dose. Big fish are tough. You should be fine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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