Moved in following steps:
- One tempex-box home-made by sticking cuts of a piece of 2cm tempex layer on all outer surfaces of a small perspex tank. Filled half with water from the mother tank.
- Tried to catch fishes by luring them in a net with food. Catched three and put them in the tempex-tank which should be kept close to reduce heat-loss.
- All buttons collected in a separate bag (I used rubble bags), tight with binders and put into larger plastic boxes to provide a double defence against cooling and sloshing. Extra advantage: the (new) rubble bags form a clean inner side, don’t have to bother whether the boxes are clean and without traces of soap etc.
- Same way siphoned 80% of the water from the mother tank into 5 more rubble bags + boxes. Added one or two of the stones per bag.
- Last stone and the grind and two non-catchable fish left as is. Tank was now easy two bear by two persons, even one stair down. Into the car, some some tempex to fence the aquarium for bumps, and… on the move (1 hr drive, time’s ticking). I kept the tempex tank on my lap at the passenger seat.
- Back home first added a thermostatic heater to the tempex box (fishes are more vulnerable to temperature then the rest).
- Mother tank moved onti its final spot, also directly started heating again.
- Put back all bags in reverse order.
- Last 25 l refreshed with new seawater (John, the former owner had prepared a tank with demineralized water, I added heat and 950 g redsea salt).
- Pumps, light and filter on and … wait and see …
- After a few hours everything was already apparently fit, fishes swimming around, buttons “opening” in the following hours.
