moving house with plants

[Polly]

Hi Everyone

I'm moving house tomorrow (argh!). I've read stuff on how to move the fish (basically put in plastic bag and move back into aquarium asap, right?), but not sure what to do with the live plants.

I have 2 different plants in the tank.

Should I lift them out of the gravel and put them in seperate bags?
- With a bit of water?
- full of water so it covers the whole plant?

Or leave them in the gravel so it doesn't disturb the roots and move the tank with the gravel and plants undisturbed? (it's a small tank so is probably liftable like that)

Any ideas, quickly, would be appreciated, I have to be ready to move in exactly 24 hours now, so better start packing!

[dundadundun]

if you can carry it in such a manner you could just lower your water level to where there's just a couple inches and move it that way. plants are commonly shipped in wet newspaper so that should work otherwise.

[jm1212]

you could probably get away with moving them in the same bags as the fish. that said, the plants and fish should be small enough so that they dont crush one another. you wouldnt want to put an amazon sword plant with an angelfish, but that same angel could be moves with vals no problem.

many people move plants and fish in the same tupperware tubs, so there really isnt any reason why you could do it with bags instead.

[Slappy*McFish]

Or leave them in the gravel so it doesn't disturb the roots and move the tank with the gravel and plants undisturbed? (it's a small tank so is probably liftable like that)


That's what I would do.