transporting fish

Coralgurl · #1 05-30-2012, 04:03 PM

I have the opportunity to grab 5 fish in great health from a local reefer. Fortunately,this person only lives 10 mins from me. They will be going into diff tanks, 2 wrasses and a tang into my 180, 2 dwarf angels into my 55. I don't keep bags from the lfs, would they be ok to transfer in buckets, 3 in one, 2 in another? Or what would be the best way to move them?

Flash · #2 05-30-2012, 04:26 PM

buckets are great! you can put them all in the same, or smaller fish in one and the tank in another! or divide bucket by tank as you stated!!

Mike-fish · #3 05-30-2012, 04:36 PM

bucket will work great. keep any aggressive fish separate to avoid any issues

Coralgurl · #4 05-30-2012, 06:31 PM

That's awesome, thanks! I'm probably going to separate by the tanks they are going into for easy acclimation. The tang did not appear to be aggressive in the tank its currently in so hopefully being with the wrasses in a bucket won't be too bad! Its only a 10 min drive so they wouldn't be cooped up for long!

Coralgurl · #5 05-30-2012, 06:33 PM

I will see if I can find a third bucket for the tang now that I think about it, then no issues.

Flash · #6 05-30-2012, 08:04 PM

2 buckets should be plenty! tang with the wrasses should be fine! it's only 10min then acclimation

subman · #7 05-30-2012, 08:20 PM

I prefer buckets actually. I find the fish stay calmer and as soon as yoi get home just start the drip no transfering.

reefme · #8 05-30-2012, 08:30 PM

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Originally Posted by subman

I prefer buckets actually. I find the fish stay calmer and as soon as yoi get home just start the drip no transfering.

Same with me.

Coralgurl · #9 05-30-2012, 11:11 PM

I have only purchased 1 fish from another reefer, to date they've all come from the lfs, so this is great information. I don't have any empty salt buckets so will stop at Rona to pick up a couple, always good to have around anyway. Thanks everyone!

strickrick · #10 05-31-2012, 12:30 PM

I'd try and keep the tang separate. I helped a friend move a while back and he put 2-3 fish in each bucket and one of the tangs just circled & circled killing one of the other tangs in the bucket. Cannot to date remember what it was but it shredded the other one. I'm thinking it was due to panic and not aggression.