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It looks like I'm most likely moving house in July. It may be within the same suburb, and at maximum a 30 min drive away. All my tanks are less than 40 L capacity, too. So it'll be easier than most scenarios. I thought about it for a while and came up with a plan very similar to this excellent article (thanks @OzShrimp): Still got a few Qs though. 1. What's the best way to keep biomedia properly inhabited AND how long can biomedia go without water flow before the bacterial colony collapses? Two of my tanks have inbuilt media compartments which I've filled with seachem matrix. In addition to that I have sponge filters in those tanks. If it's essential to keep water flowing all the time to avoid the biomedia becoming barren, I could bury the sponge filters in the biomedia within 20L lidded buckets and run them with battery powered air pumps. The shrimp will be fine in lidded 5L buckets with moss and tank-water I think because it's not gonna get too cold in brisbane and I can insulate them by placing the 5L bucket inside lidded 10L bucket and surrounding with packing foam. But they will not be fine if there is no tank with properly working filtration set up at the new place within a day. So, if necessary I'll invest in battery-powered air pumps to keep the bacteria alive. Which leads to: 2. Any good recommendations for battery-powered air pumps? 3. Lastly, any general tips? Any advice would be much appreciated :) The upshot of all this is I can start my 90L tank up once I've moved!! Soooo it started 2 identical topics for some reason, sorry!

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?