A club for owners of Parrot Cichlids

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Buy one or more coolers, depending on how many fish you have. We had 4 - including one on wheels that was just for the oscar alone. Buy one extra cooler or large tub to mix dechlorinated water in.
Use a doorknob drill bit (about 1-1/2" in diameter) to drill a hole through the center of the lid of each cooler. stick in a 6" piece of pvc pipe to act as a chimney to prevent sloshing out of the cooler.
Purchase battery powered bubblers and plenty of D batteries:
SIlent Air B11 Air Pump (Penn Plax)
You will need 1 check valve for each pump
Tetra Tec Check Valve CV-1 1 pk (Tetra)
to keep all the water from siphoning out of the tank when the bubbler is off.
You will also need plenty of air-line
25ft Flexible Airline Tubing ST-25 (Penn Plax)
and an airstone for each pump.
Aqua-Mist Airstone - 7/16in. - 4 pk (Penn Plax)
To keep the airline and airstone down at the bottom, we thread the tubing through the hole of the tiniest sized terracotta flower pot.

Then use duct tape to tape a bubbler to the outside of the lid of each cooler. Thread the air-line from the bubbler down through the hole in the center of the lid. Thread it through the tiny flowerpot and then into the airstone. you can try to use suction cup clips to keep the airline hooked to the side of the cooler but in my experience it doesn't work well.
When you move the coolers into the car, drain some of the water so they are just full enough to cover the fish. Once in the car, add in some more water, but not even close to full! I think we usually had the larger ones no more than 1/3 full, and the smaller ones no more than 1/2 full.
While you are on the road, the bubblers keep the fish alive. When you stop at a restaurant, you should be careful to leave windows cracked or maybe buy one of those new solar powered fans they keep advertising on TV.
When you stop at a motel at night, partially drain the coolers again and move each cooler onto the luggage rack and take them in to the motel room. Mix new dechlorinated water in the extra cooler, and add some to each cooler. Turn off the bubblers, and add in a small electric filter. We used Fluval filters, which you can clearly see in this photo:
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When you get where you are going, you can leave them in the coolers with the Fluvals going for a day or so, until you can buy or unpack your aquariums. We purchased a bunch of cheap 10 gallon aquariums to put the fish in for a week, until the movers showed up and unpacked the big ones.