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Well, I'm going to be moving in a few months, and I was wondering if anyone has any advice or tips on the best way to move aquarium plants or fish. Cheap, quick, and easy would be nice!

Right now all I have is a 30 gallon with 6 cherry barbs, 4 zebra loaches, and two very busy SAEs (no algae problems since I got them.). For plants, I have Hygro polysperma, Ceratopteris, a small Nymphaea sp., and a few crypts.

I'm only moving an hour or so away, so long distance or time isn't an issue.

Thanks,
Carl

I hate to say it, but there really is no easy way to move a tank. The best way is to go to your local hardware store and buy a few giant rubbermade tubs and keep all your water and put your fish in different containers (not the huge ones). Also, make sure you do not feed your fish for at least 24 hours before the move. Furthermore, take everything out of the tank, but try to keep the gravel and filter material wet so the beneficial bacteria does not die.

Good Luck!

I had to move a 30g, 29g, 3x 10g, 6g and 5g in January, I don't want to do that again any time soon

We were lucky enough to have a friend who recently moved and had a bunch of Rubbermaid tubs. The smaller tanks went with the substrate still in them. For the larger tanks the substrate went in a tub with tank water and filter media. Fish went in tubs with tank water and the plants, I figured that would give them some security and hiding places.

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when I moved I just tossed all my plants in buckets.
this resulted in a mass mess.
I would pick out all plant of one variety and perhaps tie them in a bundle with hemp twine, or elastic band them. That way you can easily remove a bunch and its all one type of plant, without tearing leaves and stems.
You could also lay a peice of plastic between layers too, that way plants become less entangled.


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Fish and plants in several plastic bags, plants don't need to be submerged if you add a small amount of water and close the bag tightly they will do just fine, the bags with the fish you can blow oxygen in and close the bag as any LFS does, if you can't get canned oxygen regular air will last them for about 8 hours. After all have been bagged, place all bags ina black trash bag, these will help with the stress factor a lot!

When i moved mine, all the tanks even the 45G and the 20G came with the substrate and filters in a small amount of water. I never kept all the water from the tanks, i just made sure filters where wet all the time and filled up with new water and had no problems at all.

Good luck