mving goldfish home from school- questions

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GBickel

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Hi, thanks for any suggestions
I am a teacher and have 20g tank in my classroom with 2 orandas in it. I have a penguin 350 filter in it. The orandas are about 6 months old and about 3 inches long from head to tail. I am enventually looking at getting a 55-75 g tank this summer.
Anyway, I want to move them home for the summer. This is what I had in mind. I only live 2 miles from my school. I thought about putting the water from the tank in 2 gallon reinforced ziplock freezer baggies and putting those in a large rolling ice chest for the trip and of course the fish in baggies of the same water.
I thought while I had the tank drained I could also clean the gravel. I would put the filter in a ziplock so it would not dry out either.
Does this sound like a good idea? That way, I won't have to totally recyle my tank.
Thanks :dance2:
 
I would just siphon the gravel when you take it down and leave just enough water in the tank to keep the gravel wet...reason being, is because the gravel also has many beneficial bacterial colonies, so you don't want to completely clean that perse otherwise you may end up re-cycling your tank as just the filter won't be enough to keep the tank stable with the goldies.
As for moving water and fish...I've either used 5 gallon buckets that have lids or coolers. All you need is half the tank water...throw the rest away and fill with part clean water when you set the tank up again.
The fish can go into one of the buckets or coolers...or just do what you were planing as that works just as well too. :thm:
Good luck with the move and let us know if you have other questions
 
Are you talking about bringing home the actual water from the tank in bags? You don't need to do that. Just bring home the last few gallons that are left covering the gravel when you drain the tank and refill it with new treated water at your house. Keeping the biowheel and/or filter media wet is a good idea, but you say you only live 2 miles from the school so it won't matter much.
 
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