Michigan Cichlid Association
General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: SKISWETPETS on January 04, 2014, 11:54:24 PM
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Sooo im wondering what you guys think about the possiblility of fish being ok in bags until sunday mid-day after the auction. I have been down in the past and just come home on saturday night. I was thinking about trying to stay till sunday and then head home. Suggestions/thoughts would be great... Thanks in advance...
SKI,
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I dunno about them being in bags that long, sure others will know better than I do. But I only live about 1 mile from where the auction is held. If you would like I can set up a 30g container with a spare heater and an extra filter I have which stays running on one of my good well established tanks and have set up and running a day or two before the auction so it'd be ready for your fish and you are welcome to keep them here overnight and pick them up Sunday. Probably be much healthier for the fish that way.
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I think it would be risky based on some peoples bagging jobs. If it were me I would bring a O2 bottle and extra bags and re-bag the ones I was worried about.
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I would rebag using oxygen & ammonia pads. Then I'd use bottles of warm water to keep the temperature in the styro.
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Would probably be fine if you planned on rebagging. As others have shared, there are 3 areas of concern...
1. Oxygen availability
I'm not sure rebagging with O2 is necessary, but is nice if you've got a setup for it. Simply spending a couple minutes to rebag will help increase the O2 concentration back to normal atmospheric levels. Using large bags and keeping the ratio 33%-50% water vs 50%-66% air, I don't think O2 is necessary. Another option would be rebagging using breather bags, but as best I recall they aren't meant to be double-bagged, which I think all cichlids, 1" fry aside, should be.
2. Ammonia build-up
The ammonia pads wouldn't be necessary if people would fast their fish well enough, but also would be cheap insurance against a mistake if you use them in all the bags.
3. Temperature
RegalBlue had a good suggestion. What I've done is use small heatpacks meant as foot/hand warmers. I'll activate them, wrap them in a few sheets of newspaper to help buffer them from touching bags on accident, and tape them to the top of the styro lids.