[minorhero]

Double bag with a little water and a lot of hope. Might make it. Temperature is your biggest issue. If it freezes it's gone.

 

[senyk]

are you attempting to ship them to your new location or will you be transporting them with you? if with you, what mode of transportation will you be taking?

 

[Ben3721]

So a 5 gallon shouldn't be hard to transport at all if your driving. Typically for a larger tank I'd say to remove 90% of the water, keep the fish in vented containers, and wrap the top of the tank, the humidity inside should help keep the plants wet and alive for a long drive for at least 8 hours. I would expect some shock to the plants at worse, however the filter if it dries out may cause an ammonia spike.


However if your planning to not setup the tank for two weeks once you get there and just throw the plants into bags for two weeks they will die. Youd have to make the aquarium a priority if you want to move it. Is there a reason it would sit for two weeks? Just unpacking everything else?

 

[Featherstone]

The biggest hurdle is we don't yet know if we're flying or driving. We have a dog and a new baby so those take priority (and the majority of the car space if we drive). We'll likely be driving, but using it as a sort of trip since the drive alone takes 39 hours (1 day and 15 hours), which will extend the trip to 5-6 days in the car before arriving at our destination, at which point knowing myself I wont have the energy to set up the tank for a couple days... especially since I'll have to find which box it's in.

Didn't think about temperature of the car...

I'm wondering if it might be worth shipping the plants to a friend of mine and having her plop them in her tank at home until I'm set up in the new place. Don't know anyone local who has tanks or knows what plants are 😂. Based on y'alls responses it sounds like they wouldnt make the trip in the car.