moving house

[Ali Day]

Hi
I've already posted this in URAM, so I apologise if you've already seen it.

I am looking for some advice on moving house.
I currently have a 350L tank with an assortment of Discus, Clown Loaches,
Plec, etc.
Whilst I am doing this move I am taking the opportunity to go upto a 640L
aquarium.

It is my intention once we have the keys to the new house, setup the new
640L aquarium, plant it, seed the new filter, let it stabilise for a week
with a few guppies in the tank.
Then move all the fish over, and put all the old filter material into the
new cannister, et voila, new aquarium.

I'm not moving far so the water chemistry isn't different, and the only
thing I need to do is get the CO2 injection on it just before I put the fish
in.

Is this too simple or should I be looking at anything else, advice
appreciated.

Many thanks

Ali

[Sue]

Buy the new filter & run it on your existing tank for three/four weeks
before you go.
Set up the new tank, heater, plants etc & stabilise it, then move both
filters over with the fish.
Sue

> > It is my intention once we have the keys to the new house, setup the new
> 640L aquarium, plant it, seed the new filter, let it stabilise for a week
> with a few guppies in the tank.
> Then move all the fish over, and put all the old filter material into the
> new cannister, et voila, new aquarium.

[Flash Wilson]

On Tue, 13 Apr 2004 18:00:14 +0000 (UTC), Sue > wrote:
>Buy the new filter & run it on your existing tank for three/four weeks
>before you go.

Or get extra filter media and leave it in a net cage in the tank so it
picks up the bacteria if you can't run the filter - that worked for me.

>Set up the new tank, heater, plants etc & stabilise it, then move both
>filters over with the fish.

Remember to keep the filter media wet and aerated - NOT trapped in a
cannister. For example in an ice cream tub or something worked for me.

http://www.gorge.org/fish/moving.shtml (moving house)
and
http://www.gorge.org/fish/movetank.shtml (upgrading tank)

tell you what I did. I only moved from a 70l to a 200l so of course
you might already have this kind of experience yourself.


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[Ali Day]

"Flash Wilson" > wrote in message
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Cheers for that, just one question though,

I'm going to seed the new filter, and put a few hardies in the tank for a
week, until I move the discus etc over. But the day of the actual fish move,
I'm going to transfer all my filter material from the old cannister over to
the other new one.

Even though I will have all the old filter medium, there is bacteria within
the tank, and on the non cleanable surfaces and with this being a new tank,
will the tank do a partial or smaller cycle as this bacteria build up?

Cheers

A