moving tank

On Fri, 25 Jul 2008 18:06:33 -0700 (PDT), wrote:

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?

I would get a cheap plastic 20 liter backup tank. You don't need a stand
for it, just put it on some table shelf. Cover the bottom with a thin
layer of gravel from the old tank (just so that it isn't a mirror),
maybe add a rock or two for hiding places, too, and then fill with water
from the old tank. Relocate your fish to the new tank. For short periods
(several days) you don't even need a filter, an air pump with a bubble
stone will be quite sufficient.

Then you can empty your old tank completely and take advantage of the
opportunity to clean and redecorate it at leisure.

jue