Moving my aquarium

I am trying to move my aquarium from one room to another because this room is too hot.. So I was wondering should I use the same water or mix new one?

 

Keep as much of your original water as you can. If you can keep at least 70%, you should be good. We just use a pump to pump it out of the aquarium and into a rubbermaid trash can. Then once the aquarium is moved, we use the same pump to pump it from the trash can back into the tank. Makes moving easy... well 'relatively easy' at least

 

I'm currently in the midst of moving so I have a decent idea after some research on what to do.

The water doesn't really contain much in regards to beneficial bacteria. If you have nitrates in your current water you may want to add/save some tank water to your new setup so as to not shock your fish. I'd only do that if your nitrates are above 20 or so, else most import is for you to get some LR and substrate over to the new tank from the current one. Those surface areas contain the most amount of bacteria you'll need to spread to the new tank. It may take a couple of days, and you may experience a mini cycle, but the shock to the fish should not be horrible though I'd check params to be sure. Are you keeping with the same tank or moving into a new one?

Hope that helps.

 

yeah keep all water possible. This will prevent a cycle from occurring, if any.

 

He's not switching to a new tank, but rather, the same tank, to another room in his house.

 

Same tank different room.. I have mixed water already and will wait 24h for it to mix.. Couze I don't have much containers left I will probably keep 30% of the water and the rest will be new water.. So I guess I will keep my fish in bags and acclimate them slowly as soon as I fill up the tank..

Thanx

 

The reason you'd want to save as much of the water as possible is so that the water parameters aren't too different in order to prevent shocking the corals and fish when they are reintroduced.