MOVING ADVICE

Okay, so The wife and I are moving to Vancouver, WA in September. The plan is to take about 1 week to get there. She wants to stop and see some of the national parks. What I need suggestions about is, how to transport the fish I plan to keep. Here's a list of what I'm keeping:

14" RTC x LSN
14" L-095 pleco
(3) 10"-13" Fl Gar
9" Red Devil
9" Bullhead Cat
7" Hogaboomorum
6" RTM
4" RTM
(6) 4" Umbees
Pair of 2.5" Geophagus
3" peacock bass

My plan was to put them in water tight bins, with battery operated pumps, but I'm trying to see if anyone has suggestions on something that requires less moving parts???


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It's not worth it to move fish that far away. It's better to sell them off and start all over at the new place. To move fish safely from one place to the other, you need to have the tanks ready at the new place to receive the fish right away. In my last move, I couldn't set up the tanks fast enough to receive the fish and lost 90% of them in the holding tanks. I regret for not selling them, or giving them away, before the move.

CichlidAddict said:

It's not worth it to move fish that far away. It's better to sell them off and start all over at the new place. To move fish safely from one place to the other, you need to have the tanks ready at the new place to receive the fish right away. In my last move, I couldn't set up the tanks fast enough to receive the fish and lost 90% of them in the holding tanks. I regret for not selling them, or giving them away, before the move.

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Yikes that was even with a sponge filter in the holding bin??

I would definitely recommend selling or giving away the bigger stuff. Even if it works out I don't see a week long drive with a lot of large fish being any fun.

For the smaller guys - I would try to find someone to hold them for a few weeks and ship them when you are ready for them in the new place.

If you were going straight there, it'd be feasible, but ... I strongly second the give them or sell them votes. In theory, if you regularly (2-3 times daily) change the water, keep bubblers going, and keep a few chunks of poly filter in each tub, you could arrive with some survivors, but you're going to kick yourself for every single one that doesn't make it.

The bigger concern is that this isn't just a straight drive. You're going to stop and check out some things. The car is going to get hot just sitting for hours.

I would be interested in gar and l14 just incase you decide to move them

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See if someone in the club will keep them for you until you get to the new place and get tanks set up. Then have them all shipped to you.


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i wouldn't ever do this with your livestock and stopping.
DC inverter with a canister filter/filters and an air pump(heaters in winter)
Depending on space actual tanks instead of buckets
Don't forget some buckets of substrate for making the other end easier to cycle

Not to mention all that whining from the back seat.

"Are we there yet?"
"Do we have anything to eat?"
"I just pooped."

Thank you all. I have some thinking to do, but I definitely won't be giving anything away.


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