Transportation of an aquarium - process difficult, demanding serious approach, preliminary preparation and certain knowledge. Especially, if your aquarium has large volume. But, if you are confident in the forces it is possible to try to pack and transport an aquarium independently.
It is required to you
- - sheets of cardboard;
- - painting adhesive tape;
- - air and bubbly film;
- - adhesive tape;
- - tanks under water;
- - containers for transportation of plants and fishes;
- - thermobags.
Instruction
1. Prepare an aquarium for moving. It is necessary to know that empty need to transport an aquarium. Otherwise at the movement durability of its seams can be broken. Cast a part of water in containers for transportation of fishes and plants, leaving space for air. Pack plants. Catch and seat fishes on containers. It is necessary to consider that fishes, more than 6 cm long and also it is necessary to transport adult aggressive and territorial fishes separately. Install containers with fishes in thermobags.
2. Drain the remained water in in advance prepared tanks. It is necessary to keep, at least, 2/3 "old" waters. In this case fishes will not feel shock and will transfer moving rather easily. If your aquarium is excessively big and there are not enough tanks under water, then it is necessary to leave such amount of water which at a doliva 1/3, will ensure normal functioning of the aquarian equipment. Take care of that when moving the water temperature did not fall lower than 22 degrees. Otherwise the fishes started in cold water can ache and die.
3. Try to keep the settled water environment. It is necessary to know that the majority of useful bacteria live on various surfaces of an aquarium - on soil, in filters, on scenery. Therefore it is necessary to transport these objects in the same conditions, as well as aquarian "living creatures". Otherwise on the new place you should start an aquarium again.
4. Wrap up walls of an empty aquarium in sheets of dense cardboard. Fix cardboard by means of a painting adhesive tape. Carefully pack into an air and bubbly film, having fixed it by a usual adhesive tape. It is recommended to transport an aquarium in inside of the car.
5. If having estimated the forces, you understood that independently you will not manage to cope with aquarium transportation - address to the companies providing muvingovy services. Today there is enough the companies making high-quality and professional transportation of aquariums of any volumes.