Transporting CL's

[chelms166]

I'm gonna be moving my loaches this weekend and wanted to know if I need to take any special precations for the trip. It's not much of a trip though as it's only a 20 minute drive. I have a small 20g that I wanna set up prior to bringing them over so I have a somewhat habitable place for them to wait for their home to be set up. There are 6 clowns and a few other non loaches. Can I just place them in plastic bags with some tank water in them and pray that they'll be alright?

Thanks ya'll.

[Eyrie]

Double bag them (for those spines) and remember to tape the corners. May be an idea to place the bags inside a bucket for ease of transportation (and in case of leaks!).

[Emma Turner]

Be sure to bag them without other species in the same bag. Clowns can excrete a mucus when transported, which can wipe out other fish species.
Good luck with the move,

Emma

[mikev]

Instead of a double bag, I find very convenient to trasport fish in CD boxes (the kind of box they sell empty CDs/DVDs in). A 100CD box should accomodate three 3" clowns easily.

I have a small 20g that I wanna set up prior to bringing them over

Hopefully, you mean a cycled one...putting six clowns into an uncycled 20g may not work very well. If you still have time, you may want to break the procedure: move hardier fish now, together with lots of your gravel, and clowns in a week.

Good luck