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I'm having new carpet installed and need to move my 26 gal bow front
tank on a 28 inch high wood stand to another room. I'm thinking of
draining the tank down to about 3 inches, slip "furniture slides"
under the stand and moving tank and stand all at once leaving the
fish
(2 bala sharks, 2 black tetras all small) in the tank. I'm guessing
it
will be no more than 20 hours untill I get the tank back in the
living
room and refilled.

Will the fish be ok in that amount of water and with no filter
running? I want to save about 10 gal of that water in buckets, will
it be ok to pour that back in?

For only four small fish, it would make sense to put some tank water
in another container (clean plastic not previously used for anything
else), add a cheap sponge filter, add the fish, then you can empty the
bowfront and move it safely. Then reverse the process after the
carpet is in reusing some of the extracted water. Probably a good
idea to do a partial water change first.

What about any outgassing from the carpet? Might that be a problem
for the fish? Can you ask the company you're buying the carpet from?
At any rate, I've kept fish in a plastic "tank" for weeks while I
replaced an old, smaller aquarium with a new, larger aquarium with no
harmful effects.

Gail