Fish boarding.

mavisky said:
I don't understand the question.

The post a few above regarding the LFS boarding your fish was a joke. He was saying that rather than buying fish, equipment, and then hosting them offsite so that someone else can take care of them you could just visit the fish store and pretend that their all yours with little to no cost involved at all.

Then that's not boarding, it's looking at the shops' fish. If you board your fish, you intend to get them back, if you re-home your fish it means the fish are no longer yours which means you are no longer boarding.

Are you looking to board your fish Eupterus? Do you know someone looking to? Noone understands why this thread was created if not, and frankly I don't know why you'd drain your tank down the point where it could be moved, and relocate your fish temporarily for a vacation unless it was going to be prolonged. I'm having my best man (also an AC member) babysit my tank for the week that I'm gone for my honeymoon. Much simpler solution than "boarding" your tank like it was a horse.

No, I am already boarding. No, I don't know anyone looking to board their fish, I did have people asking me about boarding and they seemed confused.
I understand not everyone is willing to board fish, some people will simply re-home or euthanize fish when the circumstances arise that they cannot or do not want to keep their own fish anymore for a while.

Hell just call around and I'm sure you'll find a company that offers tank maintenance. I know we have a few in my reasonably sized city of about 300,000 people and have them take care of it for the week.
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For those who can afford it, not a bad idea.
 
this whole thing is just weird.

you have four clown plecos - why in a 55g tank all alone & far away? why not just put them in your apartment tanks? one in each tank, one less thing to worry about. everything i've read throughout your posts just seems like you're making this hobby a lot more difficult than it has to be.
 
wataugachicken said:
this whole thing is just weird.

you have four clown plecos - why in a 55g tank all alone & far away? why not just put them in your apartment tanks? one in each tank, one less thing to worry about. everything i've read throughout your posts just seems like you're making this hobby a lot more difficult than it has to be.
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They wouldn't let me keep a 55 gal here and I don't want to separate my breeding group. They need a 55 gal for space as they will fight each other. Nor do I want to buy more filters and equipment to setup a tank for each pleco here. It would make it harder to work around the inspections since I couldn't tear down the "extra" tanks as easily as I can right now.

Before they hit me with their apartment laws, I was indeed planning on moving the 55 gal tank in here with me. And even after I did all of that, I would still be boarding my syno group so what would the point be unless I could move both tanks in with me.
Since the pleco group boards far better then the syno group, if anything I plan to take them with me first. At this point, I've made up my mind, I want to hang on to the catfish until they either spawn once or until I get my own place.

Furthermore it would complicate moving out of here to tear down a larger tank ( so maybe it's good they wouldn't let me have it). Especially moving around a 20 yrs old + tank which might spring a leak.
Moving is ineviable as I hate living in a "owned situation" with stupid apartment laws with no yard space of my own.

I've got my sights my set on moving to Portsmouth NH as I want to leave this area, too many bad memories here. Ideally, during the time I am moving out, all of my fish will be then boarded or re-homed. The apartment tanks will be drained and and stored.

Then when I move to Portsmouth, I plan to take a 30 gal tank with me and get another larger tank of about 75-90 gal when I get there. Then I will cycle these tanks and pick up my boarded fish on each trip back until I got them all. When the 150 gal is empty, I will take it with me. Other tanks may be sold or left at my parents house depending on how much space I have.

Complicated?...Yes... it's all part of transitional type living. I realize other people would just sell everything and start over. Me, I've got some prized fish and some hard to get breeders.
 
Eup- NOW it makes sense! Where do you board them?
 
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