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Is this a long distance travel? The
water in the new place is very different than in the old?
Althoug I've
never made such move, I'll try to give you some suggestions.
The lfs guy's sugestions seems
reasonable.
What is the ph of the water in the new
location? Acclimating the fish to
a slightly different ph (up to 0.5) is easy, but in your case it seems that the
difference will be very high, few fish can afford a 2 or 3 difference in ph in
little time. I would collect the most water as I could in the new place (100 gal
or more), let it lose the chlorine naturally, and treat it to approach a ph of
5.0.
On the
bacteria, what kind of filtration do you use? It seems that is UGF + sponges. If
it is so, maintaining the media damp seems to me sufficient to maintain the
colony.
Hope it helps.
Zeco
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