W.Glint
Community Member
Hi everyone, im in need of some advice.
I have a small juvenile Snowflake Eel, i acquired him a month ago from a friend who had to give it up, wanting one myself, i was happy to oblige. hes about 6-7 inchs long now, and a bit on the skinny side - ive been upping his feeding the last week or so just to get him into the shape he should be. im currently housing him in a 20 gallon tank, part of a 30 gallon system, a 20 gallon sump ( the eels current tank) and a 10 gallon display tank. yes, i know the tank is too small for the long run, and pushing it as is, but im setting up a 55 gallon tank a few months from now, so until then, my sump is his home.
in the system he currently lives, im running a Aqua Remora C skimmer, a penguin bio wheel HOB filter ( no bio wheel ) and i have about 9 lbs of live rock, and a 3 inch deep sand bed in the 10 gallon tank ( i keep pretty good water quality in my system [ 0 ammonia, 0 nitrite, and between 5-10 ppm nitrate - depending on when the water change was )
Heres the problem - i HAVE to take him with me out of town for about a week ( 2 hour car drive ). The tank he is in now is part of a 30 gallon system, and all the live rock and the live sand bed are in the other tank, that i cannot take with me.
My question is, can i simply transport him ( i was planning on using a 5 gallon bucket with a battery powered heater and air pump ), and take the tank with, and fill it with tank water from the old system, and just run a basic HOB filter with a heater and an air-stone for a week until i return home to the main system? my concern is that with the lack of the biological filter, will ammonia levels rise to quickly and harm him? should i take a few pieces of live rock with me? would using an old filterpad from the old system in the HOB temp filter be a good idea?
Any and all advice is welcome! :feel_good:
I have a small juvenile Snowflake Eel, i acquired him a month ago from a friend who had to give it up, wanting one myself, i was happy to oblige. hes about 6-7 inchs long now, and a bit on the skinny side - ive been upping his feeding the last week or so just to get him into the shape he should be. im currently housing him in a 20 gallon tank, part of a 30 gallon system, a 20 gallon sump ( the eels current tank) and a 10 gallon display tank. yes, i know the tank is too small for the long run, and pushing it as is, but im setting up a 55 gallon tank a few months from now, so until then, my sump is his home.
in the system he currently lives, im running a Aqua Remora C skimmer, a penguin bio wheel HOB filter ( no bio wheel ) and i have about 9 lbs of live rock, and a 3 inch deep sand bed in the 10 gallon tank ( i keep pretty good water quality in my system [ 0 ammonia, 0 nitrite, and between 5-10 ppm nitrate - depending on when the water change was )
Heres the problem - i HAVE to take him with me out of town for about a week ( 2 hour car drive ). The tank he is in now is part of a 30 gallon system, and all the live rock and the live sand bed are in the other tank, that i cannot take with me.
My question is, can i simply transport him ( i was planning on using a 5 gallon bucket with a battery powered heater and air pump ), and take the tank with, and fill it with tank water from the old system, and just run a basic HOB filter with a heater and an air-stone for a week until i return home to the main system? my concern is that with the lack of the biological filter, will ammonia levels rise to quickly and harm him? should i take a few pieces of live rock with me? would using an old filterpad from the old system in the HOB temp filter be a good idea?
Any and all advice is welcome! :feel_good:
