How to move ... the fishpond ?

JP08

Our buyer doesn't want the raised fishpond in the garden.

Fortunately this isn't TOO large - based around a holding tank 2m by 1m by 0.6m high. Ie around a 1000l capacity.

3 moderate sized fish (8" or so), about 20 tiddlers - the three big ones were happy fish last year ...

Any ideas how best to shift the whole lot (ok, maybe not the water !) about 250 miles ?

I'm guessing this is something the removal firm packing service won't cover !!!

Whoknowskt89

Fish into buckets or tubs with water (removal men won't take these generally)
If you can, save some water in big containers.
Drain the rest of the pond and then you can move the empty tank (hopefully when empty removal men will take it)
Then fill it up at the new place, using a mix of old and new water.

There are a few specialist tank movers but couldn't tell you about ponds!

Hope this helps.

Whoknowskt89

Or... If you use Facebook, contact the fish rescue and welfare, they may be able to temporarily foster the fish while moving or maybe get someone with more knowledge to assist

hazyjo

I'd see if anyone local wants them Wouldn't feel happy transporting them all that way! Do it after exchange if they'll agree to that. (You don't want them all going only to have the sale fall through!)


Jx

JP08

hazyjo wrote: »

I'd see if anyone local wants them

Alas, now that the missus knows that the buyer doesn't want them, they are coming with us. Anything else will cause "marital disharmony" ...

spadoosh

Polystyrene boxes gaffer taped shut, chuck a few oxygenating plants in there and try and make sure its kept in a cool spot.

Use a kids pool from when you empty the pond to the moving day so its much easier to empty than the tank.

Whoknowskt89

You can also buy battery powered filters. They won't be anyway near as powerful or good as a pond filter but for such a long journey should help as well as using things like api stress coat (note I have tropical fish but I'm fairly sure should the same or similar products for pond fish)

martinthebandit

JP08 wrote: »

Alas, now that the missus knows that the buyer doesn't want them, they are coming with us. Anything else will cause "marital disharmony" ...

Then tell the Missus to sort it then while you go to the pub


If your going to get 'marital disharmony' least you can do is get some enjoyment out of it

benjus

Put the fish in a local river with a map to the place you're moving to.

Grenage

I'd give them away to locals via freeads/freecycle, then get more at the other end. You can always get free goldfish - they !!!!!!s multiply like mad.

Failing that - large containers, and hope the journey isn't too stressful for them.

I recall emptying a 2m x 2m x 3m pond before selling the last place; soul destroying!

silvercar

I gave little guppys to a friend. We transported them in their fish tank. That involved a journey of about 10 minutes in the car. Me holding the tank (about half full) really carefully and my friend driving.

The fish looked happy on arrival in their new home. Within a month they were all dead.

I claim that her kids fed them and kept the tank clean; whereas I had been fairly negligent on both fronts.

She claimed they had sustained head injuries in transport!