Where To Put My Fish Whilst Aquascaping?

How long will the aquascaping take?

A few hours - put the fish in a bucket of tank water. Use the heater to keep the water warm. Run the filter in there too, or if that's not practical, let the filter or at least the media sit in the bucket to keep the media wet. Cover the bucket with an old towel or some such to stop the fish panicking and jumping out.

A few days - get a plastic storage box with a lid near enough the volume of the tank, then just set the fish up in there. Treat it like a tank except you won't need substrate. Run the filter and heater, and put some decor in. Plastic storage boxes are often used as emergency tanks, for example when the proper tank leaks.