Upon reaching your final destination after having moved your fresh or saltwater aquarium pets, their are two options of what to do with them.
Put Them Into an Aquarium
- The best course of action is to put the animals into an aquarium as soon as possible. However, since they are adjusted to the water chemistry in the transport container, you do not want to just remove and dump them into an aquarium with new water, as this may cause shock. For this reason it is very important that you acclimated the animals first, which can be done right inside the transport container.
Keep Them in an Emergency Style QT
- If an aquarium is not available to put them into, which is something that can happen when having to pack-up and move aquarium pets in an evacuation situation, the other option is to keep them in a temporary emergency style QT (quarantine tank). Any pieces of electrical aquarium equipment, such as compact hang-on-tank canister and power filters, or stand-along-side filters, in-tank heaters, air or water pumps and powerheads, as well as various types of battery-operated aeration, water circulation, and heating devices can be used to convert a transport or other type of container into an emergency style quarantine tank. The key to keeping aquarium animals in this kind of QT is the same as that of keeping them in a regular QT set up for quaraninting new or treating sick fish, it requires that the water be kept clean, ammonia-free, well oxygenated and circulated.
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