Start with the accounts that still hold your old address
Your pearl gourami's paperwork trail runs through your aquatic vet, your fish shop, any plant and food delivery subscriptions, and the emergency sheet taped near the tank. Each of those needs the new address and a current phone number. A pearl gourami is a calm, long-lived centrepiece fish, which means its records accumulate quietly over years — shop accounts, vet notes, a sitter's instruction sheet — and a house move is exactly when that scattered trail goes stale in four places at once.
Write down the new tap water results for a surface breather
A pearl gourami is a labyrinth fish: it rises to the surface to gulp air, and it cruises the top layer where temperature and surface film change fastest in a new room. Test the new home's tap water for pH and hardness and file the readings with the gourami's notes, next to the old house's numbers. Pearls favour soft, slightly acidic water, and a new supply that tests quite different is a fact worth having on paper before you settle into a water-change routine, so that any later loss of appetite or faded pearl spotting can be judged against a recorded change rather than a guess.
Record the fish itself while the tank is bare
A drained-down moving tank is a rare chance to look at a pearl gourami properly: note its sex — males carry the longer, pointed dorsal fin and an orange flush on the throat in breeding condition — its size, and the state of its long, thread-like ventral fins, which tank mates sometimes nip. Update its record with those details and with the current tank mate list. If the gourami ever needs a vet visit or a temporary stay elsewhere, that written description identifies this individual fish and tells the person receiving it exactly what a healthy version of it looks like.
Rewrite the sitter and emergency sheet for the new house
The covering sheet for anyone feeding the tank needs your new address, the new key holder's details, and instructions that fit a pearl gourami: feed at the surface, watch that slower tank mates are not outcompeted, and do not be alarmed by the fish hanging motionless among floating plants, which is normal resting behaviour for the species. Add which circuit the heater and filter run on at the new address and who the local emergency contact is now — the neighbour two streets away at the old house is no longer the fastest pair of hands in a power cut.
Close the loop with deliveries and services
Redirect frozen and live food deliveries, plant orders and any supply subscriptions to the new address, and tell a tank maintenance service about access arrangements at the new property. Check whether your old fish shop still makes sense or whether you are registering with a nearer one, and if you are, ask for the gourami's purchase details and any treatment notes to be recorded before you switch, so the new shop is not starting from a blank page.
Once those updates are made, KinsLe's Pet Passport holds the pearl gourami's address changes, water readings, description and sitter notes together, so the whole packet can be handed over in one go whenever it is needed.