Moving... A Long Way!?

Definitely know where you're coming from! I hate moving! Hopefully with the week off i have between work and now everything will be unpacled and sorted and ill at least have some idea where I am! I'm really hoping the next time we move will be into a house we've bought meaning we won't have to do it again for a long time! I think.I'm being very optimistic though ha. Stress levels have definitely been high!

I can only imagine how stressful moving to a different country would be!

Fish and shrimps are all doing great, they seem to have decided they really like one end of the tank in its temporary place and are constantly swarming there begging for food. it's peas for them tonight!

I'm currently surrounded by boxes and have no idea where to start. To make matters worse there's an issue with the electrics in the kitchen and every time I try to boil a kettle or cook food the fuse flips. Not good at all as it means the tank.turns off every time. Luckily it's always been easy to notice and I switch the fuse back and give up using electricity... Just worrying for my fishies and soul destroying for lack of tea!

Hi Jesnon,

What??? No TEA!! You can't have that...it's a basic human right

I agree with Sue that it is something you should report to the letting agent, it's what they get paid for.

Have you checked it's not your kettle though? Have you tried plugging it in, in another room, that is on a different circuit? If it still blows...it's probably the kettle. Or it could be the problem we had, which was that everything was on the one circuit, so whenever we put the kettle on and something else came on like the microwave, the circuit would blow. Everything was all on one circuit instead of being spread around.
If you are unsure what circuit feeds what, you can remove the circuit breakers or fuses one by one, and see what stops working and what supplies what sockets etc.

None of that probably made any sense I know what I mean and I don't understand what I've written
Well, good luck, Jesnon, have a lovely 1st Monday

Anyway back to fishy related things!

So in the next couple of days I'll have sorted all the furniture to where I want it and need to move the tank. A few questions:

On the moving article it suggests removing most if the water and carefully moving the tank with fish still in for small tanks. Is that.actually ok to do or should I do what I did before but in smaller form?

I have several options for fish tank placement which all have downsides...

One putting the tank in front of our large windows to the balcony, which would mean a lot of sunshine and thus algae

Another is putting the tank in front of a radiator, unfortunately I can't turn that radiator individually off and so would either have to not heat the lounge or risk the fish getting too hot :/

The third option is probably the most sensible but the most disappointing visually - having the stand to the side of the radiator and the tank the furthest from it. This may still lead to heat problems but less so. Unfortunately the only downside to this is that my dining table would be on front of the stand so I wouldn't be able to fully see the tank :/ silly flat, it obviously wasn't designed with fish in mind!

Hmm I might just empty the whole thing then if that's the safest approach - catching the fish will be a nightmare again!

It's hard work finding the perfect spot! Actually I was eyeing up the coffee table which is now in the corner as a perfect fishy spot, I don't think my partner would be too impressed though since we bought the stand especially for the tank! Still... The stand would look nice with some plants on

Unfortunately my partner thinks the last more sensible option isn't practical so I guess the tank will have to be next to the radiator unless I can come up with some creative furniture placements :/

Sitting on the floor in front of my tank was my place of choice too. now I just stand next to the tank in the kitchen :-)

Ouch! Yes I hadn't even thought about the window heat issue, but I was sat in the lounge area yesterday baking in the midday sun and thought how silly I'd been not to! I'm toying with the possibility of swapping the tv stand for the tank stand which might work well. It's so hard to tell without moving everything around - I already rearranged my bedroom this morning and our spare room still has everything plonked in the middle at the minute!

The fish are happy enough in the kitchen for now so there's no big rush to move them, it's not like we can even use the kitchen and they're in the way either as the electric issue still hasn't been sorted!