How Long Can My Fish Stay in the Bag

au01st · Aug five, 2008

Well, it seems no 1 in my expanse carries loaches or Cardinal Tetras (only neon, blackness neon, etc). I'll be in Atlanta this weekend, Fri-Sunday, and wonder if I could option upward some on the way out of boondocks; it'southward only virtually a 2 hour drive back abode. I take a trivial plastic tank with a lid, and I have a spare air pump and stone, and I also have a power inverter in my truck, then I could at least have that if need be. Any thoughts? I simply really similar the Cardinals over the neons.

Dino · Aug 5, 2008

If you have the fish bagged, and place them in a regular picnic cooler, in a car that is at human condolement level, they should exist good for a few DAYS.
We have shipping for 6 years now, and but lose fish when the air transport screws up.
I have had fish in transit for up to 3 days, with no problems.

sirdarksol · Aug 5, 2008

They should practise that well. Personally, I wouldn't put them in the tank for the ride. Hard sides tin can be harsh on the fish. I'd bring a cooler to aid keep them in a stable temp for the elapsing of the ride. Only make sure they're well bagged (I usually ask for a double-pocketbook if I'm more than one-half an hr away).

Fishies-for-me · Aug 5, 2008

I accept moved with fish in a small picnic cooler...( it insulates against heat loss meliorate) and it was a 4-5 hr drive with arriving at a relatives business firm and unpacking the side by side day....fish stayed in there travel coolers overnight at the relatives house so were in the coolers at least 24 hrs with no airation and were fine. I tin can't come across a prob with a couple of hours with the airation as long equally there is no major temp alter....skillful luck.

Allie · Aug 5, 2008

It all depend on how warm information technology is that mean solar day & how many you plan on buying. Stress coat is a skilful thing to take too.
Do yous have a saucepan with a lid? We use a 5 gallon bucket to transport fish we evangelize to people around the province. Sometimes 2 hr drives...never lost a fish that way.

au01st · Aug 5, 2008

I do have a 5 gallon saucepan with a lid that has been used exclusively for water changes, no chemicals. I can put the saucepan in the back seat (4 door truck) and I'm a larger guy, so I like my a/c comfortable (though when I make this drive it'south ordinarily with windows down and music blaring, I can make an exception for the fish). I feel much better knowing how long they can terminal, and I had e'er wondered how they were shipped, lol. I can't wait to see my school of Cardinals going around (should I get a few, 2-3 actress, in instance something happens? I take no problem modifying another amount of fish I plan to become if they happen to live, but I really want the Cardinals and it would be a major bummer to lose a few due to stress. My last vii" is for a Rainbow Shark, and I suppose if the extra Cardinals get in, I will simply concur off on the shark).

MissMTS · Aug v, 2008

I would get a few actress cardinals just because they are know to exist very frail. They will probably be fine on the ride home, but lots of people on the forum take lost a few after acclimating them to their tank.

Ghostfish · Aug 5, 2008

Yeah, if the fish are healthy and then yous should non take a trouble. I bought 2 gilt gouramais the other day and one died on a 20 minute drive. The fish was obviously sick earlier.

MissMTS · Aug v, 2008

Cardinals are just really sensitive to h2o chemical science and water quality in general. They tin can perish in a new tank even if they are perfectly healthy.

COBettaCouple · Aug ix, 2008

We transport the fish in the Kordon breathable numberless with a tiny chip on diluted methylene blueish and some fish protector in the water. The bags go in a soft-sided libation and are cushioned by big towels. You won't demand to go that far for a two-hour bulldoze, but the main matter is to keep their stress levels down and proceed them from hitting annihilation.

EMazurk · Nov 17, 2013

Sorry for such a rookie question that has probably been asked several times on this forum, only I couldn't seem to find a consistent answer. I am buying fish for an aquarium I have at my chore (I teach) and at that place's no pet store in the town I piece of work at. I have to purchase them from my local pet store which is almost an hour away from my schoolhouse. Therefore, I'd be ownership them later on work, belongings onto them, and introducing them into a cycled tank the next solar day. Do you lot think the fish will exist okay in the store bag for about 12-15 hours? Thanks!

jreinhart · Nov 17, 2013

Someone else may be able to speak more authoritatively nigh this. In my stance that is much likewise long for the fish to be kept in the pocketbook. Some fish stores can add extra oxygen to the bag if you have a long bulldoze home. There's a fish store 45 minutes from me, with traffic information technology tin can be threescore-xc minutes, and I always ask them to add together Oxygen to the bag.

Even so I go straight home, bladder the pocketbook, and add the fish to the tank as soon as is prophylactic.

I would non wait 12-fifteen hours with the fish in the handbag. Is there any way that you could buy the fish on the way to your school?

aquatic1 · Nov 17, 2013

Get a container with a hat that has some hole, pop in an airstone (they have portable battery operated pumps) and it would really aid to have a minI heater in there too, or some heat packs surrounding the container.

smee82 · Nov 17, 2013

No sorry after 12hrs the build upwardly of co2 ammonia and every thing else will cause a ph swing when you open the bag

frampy · Nov 17, 2013

Breather bags can hold fish for up to 7 days! It all depends on the type of bags they use. You could ever take the fish out and put it in a bowl over dark and put information technology dorsum in in the morning.

plecodragon · November 17, 2013

I accept had fish shipped to me and they survived two full days in the mail. I don't know if the fish shop added oxygen or not. I have likewise gone to fish auctions where the fish are usually bagged the nighttime before or hours before the sale and so I have transported them for more so 4hrs by car then set them upward in their new homes and just about all have survived. Yous have to remember that fish are transported over peachy distances before they are even in a store mostly by pocketbook and and so are rebagged for your trip home.
It would be best if you got some oxygen added if available or equally stated above added an airstone to the container or even the bag.

Take to enquire what kind of fish are wanting to get? and how many? If you want more then say half-dozen small fish(per bag) inquire for them to be bagged separately. If getting larger fish ask for them to exist bagged separately this minimizes the adventure that they will assault each other (which causes damage that can go infected). Proficient luck with your new fish.

EMazurk · Nov 17, 2013

I am looking to get well-nigh 3 tetras...they're going to exist my start fish for a newly set up 30G tank.

Unfortunately there is no way for me to become to the store on my way to work, I go there at 630am. Is the chief business organization the Oxygen? I can always put them in a basin overnight, my biggest concern was waste buildup over that period of time. I am hoping that when I go there, this is not an uncommon business organization and they'll have practical solutions.

Cheers for your continued input, everyone!

Scoutsfish · Nov 17, 2013

This is just what I would do..

Bring home a large container of tank water from school. Later you lot go fish, put each into their own container(the larger the better). Get iii air stones and 1 air pump. And then apply a (no clue what real name is) multI check valve thingy and airline tubing. Set upward the air stone/bubbler in each container and keep the water around 76°F(whether you heater your house, that room/put minor heater most it, put 3 containers in larger container with h2o and heater, it shouldn't matter). When yous go to leave the adjacent morn, put each fish into a stonemason jar with fresh tank water and drive to school. Acclimatize when ready.(note, yous may need a pigsty in stonemason jar lid for oxygen. This can too be done using just 1 container, but in my opinion, the amount of waste product will be less if in 3 split up. If using bubblers, prime number will as well assist a lot here.)

When I got my 29 gal, she had xi guppies and 1 harlequin rasbora. I put them in i solid/not articulate container with bubbler and prime while we took tank down and then drove domicile and put back into tank. This took almost vi or so hours, simply had bubbler in for nigh iv hrs(1 hour off, 3 or and then on, 1 off, 1 on) promise this helps!! Good luck!!!

junebug · Nov 17, 2013

Maybe I'll sound like the odd man out, but if fish can exist shipped in a plastic baggy and spend iii days in the mail, make it live, acclimatize, and show no signs of illness when added to a tank, in that location is no reason at all yous can't go along a fish in a pocketbook overnight. If you're concerned, open the bag when you lot get home, then necktie it upwards earlier you leave for work the next morning time.

Dolfan · Nov 17, 2013

Usually when people ship fish they use kordon sabbatical bags. These accept been particularly designed to allow oxygen to enter the pocketbook and CO2 to exit. Virtually fish stores do non use these bags as they are more than expensive. So the bag will need to exist opened somehow. I would also suggest putting a few drops of Prime in the purse once y'all got habitation and once more in the morning time, this would help bind the ammonia until you can become them situated. Some of the other ideas about temporary homes would probably be ideal, but the OP may non have access to all the equipment that would entail. Maybe transfer them into a clean and rinsed Tupperware so you lot tin can remove the chapeau easily to let the oxygen exchange at surface of water.

Teishokue · Nov 17, 2013

Yes, a fish can withstand being in a "store" (vinyl) bag for up to 3 days+. But the fish must be prepared before paw. It must not consume food prior to bagging for 2 days in accelerate and so new water must exist swapped with aged aquarium h2o. But if you are purchasing from a store, near likely they have poor water quality before paw and the fish would exist over fed.

All-time fashion to ship fish would exist a battery operated bubbler in a closed bucket and not exist left out.

jdhef · Nov 17, 2013

Cant you only get in on a Sat or Sunday or other off from school day?

Xifex · Nov 18, 2013

Several months ago I bought five cichilds. three yellow ones and ii blue ones.

All three yellow fish died while aclimating while I was at course for 4 hours. I never endeavor to kill fish but i've had close to 10 die even though my cichild tank is thriving.

From now on i'1000 using the drip method forth with bubbler and heater. The bag metthod seems to stress my fined friends out to much.

Aquarist · November eighteen, 2013

Good forenoon,

Something else to consider is the water temperature. If you are purchasing Tropical fish, then the water needs to be kept warm. I would recommend adding the fish into a cooler to aid maintain the water temperature and set it in a nice warm identify. Add a battery powered air stone/supply.

Hope for the best! Add a dose of Prime number.

Ken

Aquarium Saturation · Jul 6, 2016

I'1000 looking at getting some guppies, merely the guppies at the lfs don't expect very good. We are going to Melbourne soon and I was planning on getting some in that location. I read on another forum that they tin alive for upward to 3 days in an esky! Would I need a estrus pack?

DoubleDutch · Jul 6, 2016

Depends on the outdoor temp. How long have they to stay in the pocketbook so?

DoubleDutch · Jul half-dozen, 2016

Ohhh that'southward no problem or what so ever. Depending on their trip (think they accept been travelling from Asia a few days) air (curt menses) or oxygen (longer trip) is added to the handbag.

No need to worry !
Depending on the outdoor temp an onetime newspaper can be of utilise to isolate.

Aquarium Saturation · Jul half dozen, 2016

Would I need a heat pack because it s wintertime hither and information technology's freezing!!

And would I need an esky to stablize the temps??

Secret Oasis · Jul six, 2016

Coming from Wisconsin my term of freezing is a bit unlike from yours haha. in temps of ten-15°C bold the ride volition exist in a heated automobile I don't remember a heat pack or esky would be necessary.

DoubleDutch · Jul 6, 2016

Agree with And so.
Or will you travell by sledge ??

aliray · Jul 6, 2016

Yous could e'er go a small-scale insulated cooler that you use for cans of soda or food. Put the bag in the cooler and that volition help keep the purse of fish stable till you go home. Plus it keeps the fish in the dark so there is less stress on them. Welcome to the forum and happy fish shopping....Alison

Aquarium Saturation · Jul half-dozen, 2016

Thanks I've got an esky that I'm gonna put them in on the fashion home

Vortexed · Apr two, 2017

Hi, I just got a brand new tank at the 1$ per gallon sale from petco, and I'm letting it bicycle. But I got ane extra fish, which for now will go into the 5 gallon tank until the 20 gal tank is filtered.
I'k letting the Cherry Wag Sword fish stay in the pocketbook so he tin can get use to the 5 gal temp.. but I have to go somewhere presently and won't be back for a few hours. Will the fish be OK in the bag for a few hours? His bag will be in the tank with a heater.

His proper noun is amber <3

Tiny_Tanganyikans · Apr 2, 2017

Why not simply put him in the aquarium? It will have a few weeks for the tank to cycle. The filter does nothing until bacteria grows on it. Petco/petsmart accept no inkling what they're talking aboit when they tell y'all to run the aquarium for 24 hours before putting fish in.

I propose learning about the nitrogen cycle.

The fish volition be ok for a few hours regardless.

andychrissytank · Apr 2, 2017

If you take time, I'd say check this 7 min video outbasically she uses this "Plop and Driblet" Method that is worth looking into
she explains information technology better than I tin, but she doesn't spend 20-25 minutes floating the bag in the tank, just take them out immediately and dwelling house them :]
something to do with their co2 countering the ammonia in their purse when air can't go in, so they don't burn down off their slime coat exposed to air

TexasDomer · April 2, 2017

In the cases of fish in bags from your LFS, you don't accept to worry as much about a build up of ammonia and CO2; it's more for shipping I think.

Vortexed · April ii, 2017

Why non simply put him in the aquarium? It will take a few weeks for the tank to cycle. The filter does nothing until bacteria grows on information technology. Petco/petsmart have no clue what they're talking aboit when they tell you to run the aquarium for 24 hours earlier putting fish in.
I suggest learning near the nitrogen cycle.

The fish will be ok for a few hours regardless.

When I got my 5 gallon aqaurium I didnt cycle at all, and my fish are fine and healthy and has been that way for months. And I was talking to a pro fish keeper that I know from petco that helped me out and he had fish for a long time now.

Tiny_Tanganyikans · Apr 2, 2017

When I got my 5 gallon aqaurium I didnt wheel at all, and my fish are fine and salubrious and has been that manner for months. And I was talking to a pro fish keeper that I know from petco that helped me out and he had fish for a long time at present.

Ok

BottomDweller · Apr ii, 2017

When I got my five gallon aqaurium I didnt cycle at all, and my fish are fine and healthy and has been that style for months. And I was talking to a pro fish keeper that I know from petco that helped me out and he had fish for a long time now.

I seriously uncertainty your fish were healthy if yous didn't cycle the tank merely ok

BeanFish · Apr ii, 2017

And then you lot come up asking for assist and and so you are teaching u.s. nearly the nitrogen cycle?
For starters a v gal tank is unremarkably super small and non suitable for anything only bettas.
Anyways, I retrieve your fish will not die but I don't know why yous don't just move it into the 20 gal and but exercise a fish in cycle. It makes no sense to me.
You are worried about putting him in 20 gals of water just considering the tank is not cycled simply you are not worried of leaving the fish in a bag with just 250 ml of h2o that isn't cycled also?

Katkatt · Jun 5, 2017

So in two weeks time, I'g taking a half-dozen-hour drive to visit my grandmother in Charlotte. And Charlotte has huge pet stores, of course, that's in comparison to the fact I live in a small boondocks with merely a half-baked Pet Supplies Plus that barely manages to proceed its fish alive.

Just I digress, y'all know those plastic storage bins that you can purchase at Walmart for some 5, ten dollars? Could I keep fish in in that location for the day I have to wait and the half-dozen-60 minutes bulldoze home? Of course, I'll be using a heater and the water volition be cycled for the unabridged time, only would information technology be possible without the filter for at least 7 hours? And would the storage bin suffice as a temporary two-day home? If so, how would I manage to do it? (size of bin yet to be determined, probable v-10gal)

TL;DR: can fish be kept in a plastic storage bin from Walmart for 2 days (with a heater and a filter) then transported for seven hours without a filter? And how?

Bruxes and Bubbles · Jun 5, 2017

Definitely is, depending on the fish y'all are transporting and the size of the bin. Make certain to exercise a big water alter before you exit and you should exist 100% fine unless your fish is very, very sensitive. I kept four guppies within overnight as it got colder that dark (effectually x hours) in a v gallon saucepan and they were fine the next day.

What kind of fish do you plan to send?

Katkatt · Jun five, 2017

Fish type is also still undetermined, it depends on which type catch my eye, merely they're likely going to be something hardy like guppies or community-type bettas.

2211Nighthawk · Jun 5, 2017

Fish type is also notwithstanding undetermined, it depends on which blazon catch my centre, just they're probable going to be something hardy like guppies or community-type bettas.

What?? Not bringing abode discus or arrowana or another crazy expensive fish??

Bruxes and Bubbles · Jun v, 2017

Fish type is likewise still undetermined, it depends on which type catch my centre, simply they're probable going to be something hardy like guppies or community-type bettas.

Oh, yeah; y'all'll exist fine. If a betta can live in a pet shop cup for that long, it'll survive vii hours a large bin. Guppies too. Opt for the 10 gallon bin for security if possible, but you will be okay. Just think to acclimate when you get home if your water's PH and everything is unlike.

sfsamm · Jun 5, 2017

Short answer yes.

How I exercise it, and I've transported several times, though every bit with all fishkeeping at that place's multiple ways to exercise information technology, this is mine.
I accept transported in blank tanks, buckets and totes whatever it is be sure it'southward make clean before you add fish. I only put four-6" of water in the bin. I generally add together null just a treatment like Prime and the fish, I've never had a filter and depending on the fish about 50/50 add a bubbler on a battery pump. I've added a agglomeration of cheap floating plants like Anacharis too on multiple day transports, I've also done multiple days arid.

I always black them out, I go on their tanks every bit dark as possible for the entire trip. Yes information technology's difficult not to check on them. High waste product fish I've added Prime after 24 hours. Practise not feed them anything at all, they won't starve in a couple days but they will poo up their tank extremely and get Ammonia damage.

Be very cautious on temp, don't get out them in the automobile. Cars and back seats tin can get very very hot! Effort to go along them out of the sun equally much as possible. Torso is a bad idea.

Personally I would not worry about the filter, utilise a bubble stone and battery ability pump if you are concerned. Filter is more of a hassle than a benefit and I would not waste product cycled media personally.

Ever remember, they ship them in bags through the mail, that's what I consider when transporting. Makes me experience less guilty about it.

chromedome52 · Jun 6, 2017

Have a styrofoam box/cooler (some shops will provide for free, or at about a couple of bucks) and put the bags in the box. Equally noted, don't leave it in the car for too long, though you have more leeway with the libation than with a plastic tub as it is insulated. Let the shop know that you are going to be a couple of days and they should be glad to bag properly: larger bags, perhaps even with oxygen, 75% air, 25% water. The fish will be just fine in the bags. I accept left fish in bags from fish show weekends for as long as three days (even a week with 1 pocketbook, just that was a fault on my function). Even the fish that was in a handbag for a calendar week survived, and spawned later. Keeping them in the styro keeps them in the nighttime, which slows their metabolism greatly. This results in minimal ammonia pollution.

The risk of using plastic tubs is that they can splash and spill in a motorcar, even if yous put the chapeau on information technology, and information technology tin can overheat quickly in the dominicus. I have used one in a hotel room for a species that I knew was very sensitive well-nigh water motion, which required a strong airstone and more than surface area. But that was an extreme situation.

Kasshan · Jun 6, 2017

I drove from SoCal to NorCal once and transported my fish in a large cooler, the biggest 1 I could manage. vii hour drive plus 4 hours for tear down and resetting the tank. total 11 hours. no deaths. I had cories, kribs, neons, mollies at the fourth dimension. had bombardment powered air supplied to them.

when I practice transfers in the business firm I use regular plastic bins from Walmart since I don't have to worry almost temp swings. My biggest worry is nearly keeping the temperature stable.

too you desire to fast(not feed your fish) for at least a day earlier transport and don't feed during send either.

How Long Can My Fish Stay in the Bag

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