Pond Boss Forums INTRO Questions & Observations Fish transport?

Donno:

Check pH of both BOW's. Try not to have greater than a 5�F temp difference between water or you will need to temper the water. The warmer the water, the less O2 it will hold. I would use a battery powered aerator during transport, even though it's only 20 minutes.

I'll post some cliff notes from here:
http://www.fao.org/docrep/009/af000e/AF000E02.htm

A need for adapting the fish to a lower water temperature may also arise before transport. Natural ice is used to cool the water; the ice of carbonic acid should be avoided. As a guide ratio, 25 kg of ice will cool 1 000 litres of water by 2�C. If the water contains fish during the cooling process, the temperature drop should not be faster than 5�C per hour. Direct contact of fish with ice should be prevented at the same time. The total temperature difference should not be greater than 12�15�C, with respect to the species and age of the fish (FRG recommendation, 1979).

The fish to be transported, except for the larval stages should be left to starve for at least a day; if the digestive tract of the fish is not totally cleaned, the possible time of transport is reduced to a half, though the conditions may be the same (Pecha, Berka and Kouril, 1983; Orlov et al., 1974). The fish with full digestive tracts also need more oxygen, are more susceptible to stress, and produce excrements which take up much of the oxygen of the water.

There's much more there, it's a good read for anybody transporting fish. There's more to it than just putting water in a container and moving fish.