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From: farrens@american.WISC.EDU (Matthew Farrens)
Newsgroups: alt.aquaria
Subject: Re: Moving your fish
Keywords: relocation
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Date: 20 Jan 88 20:57:49 GMT
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In article <1304@vu-vlsi.UUCP> sword@vu-vlsi.UUCP (David Talmage) writes:
>A question from a casual reader:  If you had to move, say across town or
>to another city, what would you do to ensure the health and safety of your
>fish?

	The owner of the fish store we frequent the most says to buy big
plastic garbage cans, drain your tanks into them, put the fish in, and you will
have no trouble.  He claims that some of his customers used this method to move
their fish a long ways (Sorry, I don't remember how far, but it was >>> across
town) and only lost one.  When we moved in October we used his idea except we
left our fish in a little bit of water in the bottom of the tanks and just
brought along their water.  I know, I know, we got lucky never move glass tanks
with water in them they will probably break now etc., but we lost nary a fish
and we have well over 100.  (various tanks, obviously)  Large amounts of water
have a high thermal mass, and I think it really helps reduce stress on the fish
to put them back into "their" water.  Moving is enough of a strain, let alone
being introduced to a whole new batch of water.

MF, HSF (Harry Sullivan Fan)