* Pat wrote, On 11/13/2006 7:56 PM:

Cindy wrote:
Your fish are used to whatever the chemistry of their water is. It
makes it easier on them if they don't get a 100% water change as well
as being caught and put in bags and sloshed around.

But a 50% water change is not completely out of the realm. I mean I
obviously had some of the water. turned out to be about half. Mine
lived too, glad yours did. I only post on this topic because of the
immense pain it was to sort out something as simple as moving a tank.

Isn't that the truth.
I have a 150-gal. tank that I haven't set up for 10 years because I keep having
to move, don't know when it's going to end and I don't want to have to deal with
moving it.
I figure every little bit helps to lessen the stress on the critters, so do
everything you can even to hauling that old water along.