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DemonCat

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Hi all, 

I have to move my 3 ft across the city to my new house next weekend. 

ANyone does this? Thoughts, tips, hints? Anyone pay any particular companies etc to do it? If so, who?

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I used a little battery powered air pump to make sure my shrimp survived the trip. If your running a sponge filter its a good idea to use the battery pump to power the sponge filter in the transportation bucket. Other then that most of the stuff is hard to avoid.

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Another idea, simply place them in breathable bags and transport them to their new home. Should be good for a few day like when they  are sent through the mail.

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speaking from experience - I don't recommend transporting shrimp IN their aquarium, it is messy (inside the rank I mean,, think "poo storm in your own home!!) 

I didn't have any obviously related casualties but any breeding I had going on was interrupted for sure

love n peace

will

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I was forced to transport shrimp once in a little tank i purchased with them cause the seller didnt bother to bag the shrimp or bucket them, god i had so many close calls with spillage in the car! if you want to keep most of the water from the tank i would suggest looking at one of the round storage containers

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I was forced to transport shrimp once in a little tank i purchased with them cause the seller didnt bother to bag the shrimp or bucket them, god i had so many close calls with spillage in the car! if you want to keep most of the water from the tank i would suggest looking at one of the round storage containers

LOL where's this seller? they sound great i want to buy from them !

I managed to avoid any spillage in car, my problem was the tanks had a lot of mulm etc in the substrate which got stirred up causing a very unpleasant experience for the little shrimps.

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This coming weekend is the big weekend! Taken a fair bit of advice from here so thanks everyone.

Here's hoping I dont stuff it up! Looking forward to being able to rescape and clean, but will be pretty upset if I break the tank or lose a heap of shrimp of fish. They've just started to be berried and drop eggs.

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4 hours ago, DemonCat said:

No deaths!!!

Well done. A little planning paid off.  Moving house can be devastating when other "life factors" muscle in and try to be more important than the shrimp!

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8 hours ago, revolutionhope said:

congrats !

 

what method did you use?

1. 50% water in 2 Bunnings watertight drums (25l each) 

2. Fish, shrimp and 25% water in a third bunnings drum

3. 10% water and plants (including driftwood with moss). Had to leave some stem plants in as I could not move them. 

3. Gravel vac the remaining 25% water into a tub and thrown on the garden.

5. Transfer everything to the car, drive to new place

6. Unpack car, clean tank glass etc, quick rescape and plant it up.

7. Add 25% oldwater, change some planting around. Put tap water in this drum and drops to condition it. 

8. Add other drum with old water, plus drum with stock.

9. Few hours later slowly add the new conditioned water.

That was on Sunday. Worried about water parameters going nuts, so I took out 15% of water today, and added 20% (so its now closer to the water level it was at before.

I dont want to jinx it, but I hope everything is fine! A photo is below - I will try to get some close ups on the weekend, but fear my next week or so will slowly be unpacking!!

 

 

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8 hours ago, revolutionhope said: congrats !

 

what method did you use?

A

 

 

there's more to come surely?

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