Path: utzoo!hoptoad!ihnp4!homxb!agd
From: agd@homxb.UUCP (A.DEACON)
Newsgroups: alt.aquaria
Subject: Re: Moving
Summary: Some suggestions
Message-ID: <1496@homxb.UUCP>
Date: 9 Feb 88 13:54:10 GMT
References: <436@lakesys.UUCP>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Holmdel
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In article <436@lakesys.UUCP>, steven@lakesys.UUCP (Steven Goodman) writes:
> 
> 
> 	In a few weeks I will be moving across town and I do not
> 	want to lose this fish!  I am looking for suggestions 
> 	people might have in making this move gracefully.  Another
> 	problem being I live in Wisconsin, this will mean the 
> 	temperature outside around  the time of moving will be
> 	somewhere between 20 - 30 degrees F.  Hopefully warmer,
> 	but I would believe from the past weather that this would
> 	not be likely.  
> 	
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Some suggestions on moving fish taken off the ATF FORUM:


Pick up an O2 cylinder at a pharmacy, bag the fish, and go!

SAVE the WATER: you can put it back in the tank and minimize
the shock to the fish. Then you can initiate  water changes
after 24 hours.

If you have a UGF, keep the gravel damp (under some water) and
do not expose the tanks to sunlight.

When you get to the new destination, put the old water back in the
tanks, and float the fish in the bags just like the first time
you got them. OH, and keep the bags out of the sun, unless you like
boiled fish!



When I moved about a year and a half ago, this is the way I handled it.

1.  I got a friend and a large vehicle into which we loaded all my empty tanks
(about 20 of them) and moved them all to the new place.

2.  We came back and siphoned the water of the remaining five tanks (I knew I
was going to be moving well before hand and dissapated my stock) into various
clean containers--a number of five gallon jugs, and some plastic garbage pails
with new liners.  (If you use garbage pails fill them only about half
full--they'll weigh a ton!)  When we had siphoned about 2/3 of the water from
each tank, we captured the inhabitants and bagged them and placed them in
several coolers.  Then we siphoned the rest of the water and threw it out,
leaving about 2-3 inches in each tank.  We then loaded the water an fish and
moved them.

3.  We then moved the tanks to the new place and placed them in position (in
the cellar--previous arrangemnts had already been made and I didn't require
stands anymore), filled them with the saved water, and acclimated the fish back
into them.  After about a week, I did a complete water change filling the tanks
to the proper level.

All this was done prior to the real move about a week later so I didn't have to
worry about the fish as well as everything else.  The new place was about 30
mins. from the old.


There is more information available if you would like me to
retrieve it for you.

Art Deacon
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