Moving Your Aquarium

Moving an aquarium takes a lot of prep and knowledge to pull off right. Fish are especially susceptible to stress, and moving around to new environments is a stressful thing. Take care of your fish and learn to move them the right way. Here are a few steps that you can take to make sure your aquarium and fish survive a move.

Moving With An Aquarium

Pre Move Preparation

The prep to move an aquarium starts a few days before the actual move. Make sure to check off this list as you get closer to the moving date.

Find a few clean buckets to transport the water. If it’s a small tank, one bucket will do fine. Make sure they have lids and won’t become contaminated.
Make sure you have a stock of all the materials you need when your fish arrive at your new place, being without crucial supplies could spell disaster.
Stop feeding your fish two days before the move.

Moving Day

The day is here, let’s hope you have a friend to help you move that big tank, trying to carry it yourself is a bad idea. First, you want to start by removing the fish, using small bags filled with the water from the tank, place each fish in each bag and store them somewhere dark. Next, you want to empty the tank, using those buckets you bought earlier to save the water. The water is a complex and delicate thing to get perfect, by saving it, you will save a lot of time. Once this is done, try to move everything as quickly as possible. The oxygen in the fish bags will start to deplete, so the quicker the fish get back home the better.

Once at your new place, pour the water back into the tank, turn on the pumps and let the temperature stabilize. Add your fish back slowly, first float the bags in the tank, let the water in the bag reach the temp of the tank water, then pour them inside. That’s it! If you need a more detailed guide on acclimatizing your fish, check out this great guide.

If you realize that you need a bit more room during your move or have too many fish supplies, our self storage units are great for storing aquarium supplies.

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Mike Olsen

18:58 16 Oct 19

This is inexpensive storage that operates 100% as advertised - they do not offer 24/7 access and do not charge 24/7 access pricing. They are incredibly responsive to requests to unlock doors and provide access. It is not fancy but if you need a clean, dry place to store your stuff, you can't beat these guys. Don't expect bells and/or whistles but you also won't be paying for them.

Dave Shirlaw

01:54 10 Jun 19

Have to phone to have buildings unlocked. Annoying.

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23:06 21 May 19

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01:04 25 Sep 18

Prices are 1/2 the price of other storage units but it shuts down (locked gates) from 10 am - 6 pm except if you have the enormous ground level outside facing units. Those hours are impossible. The technology getting items up to the second story is an actual forklift thats made stationary. You balance your items up the forklift (and you raise the wooden pallet up yourself) Then you must walk up stairs and hope their is a dolly available to wind precariously around tiny turning hallways. Budget carpentry and ancient carpet in the units. The trolleys sound and feel like their from 1980's and are either coached to disobey or they keep their own counsel. They say its secure but I had a neighbor pick something up and they weren't even asked for permission. I explicitly stated only I was to have access. They said they do not let it happen. The locks are your own, but the flip closure is attached by 3/4 wood screws easily and possibly quite quietly could be opened and emptied with no one batting an eye. A kid could detach it with anything. They have "24 hour security" which means a guy lives on site. Does he/she have CCTV access? Probably not, nor would you want that job. Are there motion sensors? Not likely as sometimes the lights won't turn on and finding a switch in the straggly wandering corridors is impossible. They do not offer insurance. You have to sign forms saying all the things you will and won't do, but they are not liable if anything happens: theft, fire, water, vandals, pests etcSo despite all those complaints, its still 4/5 only because of the prices.