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Posted by NetMax on August 2, 2005, 1:01 am
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>>>>In 3 weeks time I will be moving house to Plymouth, a journey that
>>>>will
>>>>take me about 4 hours and I need some advice on how to transport my 4
>>>>Clown Loaches and one Red Tipped Shark. Can anyone tell me how I can
>>>>keep the oxygen levels and temperature high enough to stop them from
>>>>dying? If anyone can help me I will be very grateful.
>>>>
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>>> Don't feed them for a few days before, it keeps them from
>>> fowling the water. Then get the biggest freezer bags you can
>>> find and put the fish in individual bags with as much water as
>>> the bag can take.
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>>Correction: 'as much *air* as the bag will hold'. The water quantity
>>is
>>to keep them wet, and for a bit of thermal insulation as required. The
>>air provides the oxygen (air holds *much* more O2 than water).
>
> Without some circulation in the water this is debatable, and few
> hobbyists can do the breeders trick of pumping in pure oxygen.
>
> But ok :-) I'll give you that one.
I figure I've unbagged about 200,000 fish *whew, I've never done the math
before* so I've seen a variety of techniques used locally,
trans-continent and for overseas. There has been a trend towards
individual packing with lots of air ... something about lowering their
stress being in close contact with other fish, hormones, waste etc.
If using O2 injection, then it gets silly. They experiment with how
little water could actually be in the bag (water is the major cost of
overseas shipments, often much more than the fish), and they use bags so
small, that the fish literally cannot turn around. At first glance, it
makes you indignant, muttering about cruelty, but statistically, they
seem to travel well this way.
Without O2 injection and without insulation, I use about 75% air. With
insulation (or not needing insulation), you can use less water. I heard
that Discus are sometimes transported in so little water, they travel on
their sides. Most of the Discus I'd order were small so they came in
'envelope' bags (the kind they couldn't turn around in), but they were
likely O2 charged as they were not water-changed when changing
flights/trucks as is typically done.
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>>>take me about 4 hours and I need some advice on how to transport my 4
>>>Clown Loaches and one Red Tipped Shark. Can anyone tell me how I can
>>>keep the oxygen levels and temperature high enough to stop them from
>>>dying? If anyone can help me I will be very grateful.
>>>