transporting 210 gallons of water!!!!
 

Anyone know of a place I can rent clean 10 gallon buckets or have a novel idea of how to transport 210 gallons of water from one location to the next? I'm buying this guys established tank, with mature, beautiful fish, and want to bring the water with me as I think it would put less stress on the fish.

Please help!! It seems like an arduous undertaking and any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Where are you? Dependent on where you are i have sopme buckets you could borrow. I am getting ready to move my tank and someone had suggested lining a garbage can with a garbage bag. Putting it on the back of a truck and getting a ling house to siphon the water into the bucket and then tieing the bag closed to minimize water splashing around. Don't know if it would work but an i dea i suppose.

water woes
 

I'm in Vancouver but that sounds like not a bad idea!

This idea works GREAT! Moved MANY a tank this way.

Why do you need to transport the water? Why not just mix new?

Might consider mixing up saltwater in buckets at the new location and have it heated and ready to add to the tank. Bring along some maybe but not all 210g.

Just acclimatize the fish as if were bring home from a LFS and adding to an established tank.

You would really "need" to bring home about 50% of the old water at the most. When I converted my fish room into my 220g, I made about 150g of new water & added in about 100g of the old water from the various tanks. That worked no problem at all. Even moved my seahorses/corals/fish in within a very short time afterwards.

Think of it as doing a big water change.

PM sent about some containers.

Anthony

I don't even think you need to do that. I do 90% water changes on my tanks every couple of months with no ill effects.

But I have found that removes alot of bacteria from the water that is needed

What bacteria is free form in the water that isnt also on/in the rocks?