Advice Needed On Moving Plants (moving Whole Aquarium To New House)

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As title, I am moving house soon and I need to remove all water, decor and plants...

A) To aid me being able to catch 20 small, extremely agile fish
B) To keep weight down.

I have a soil and gravel substrate and the plants have been in for 2 weeks. Is it simply a case of pulling the plants up and bagging? Or should I put them in a bucket of tank water?

The fish will be in a lidded bucket for their transport but I would store the plants separately, of course.

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Re: Advice needed on moving plants (moving whole aquarium to new house)
« Reply #1 on: April 03, 2016, 10:05:01 PM »
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As long as the plants stay moist they should be fine, sandwich bags are probably ideal for this.

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Re: Advice needed on moving plants (moving whole aquarium to new house)
« Reply #2 on: April 04, 2016, 06:50:23 AM »
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Yes, bag the plants up, you don't want to have to carry more buckets of water than necessary. They will be fine is plastic bags.

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Re: Advice needed on moving plants (moving whole aquarium to new house)
« Reply #3 on: April 04, 2016, 10:40:02 AM »
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Thanks guys

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Re: Advice needed on moving plants (moving whole aquarium to new house)
« Reply #4 on: April 04, 2016, 11:51:32 AM »
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When's moving day Paddy?

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Re: Advice needed on moving plants (moving whole aquarium to new house)
« Reply #5 on: April 04, 2016, 02:07:33 PM »
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Re: Advice needed on moving plants (moving whole aquarium to new house)
« Reply #6 on: April 04, 2016, 07:09:15 PM »
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Ooooo that soon! Remember when you're sick of lugging boxes this should be the last ever move  :)

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Re: Advice needed on moving plants (moving whole aquarium to new house)
« Reply #7 on: April 04, 2016, 08:08:44 PM »
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Ooooo that soon! Remember when you're sick of lugging boxes this should be the last ever move  :)

That's the plan anyway  :cheers:

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