The accounts to update for a rummy-nose school
Change your address and contact details with your aquatic vet and fish shop, redirect food and supply deliveries, and replace the tank's sitter and emergency sheet. Rummy-nose tetras are usually kept as a school rather than as named individuals, so their paperwork is about the group: how many fish, which tank, what water they live in. A move scrambles every one of those facts at once — new address, new water supply, sometimes a new tank layout — which is why this species' records deserve a deliberate half hour rather than a mental note.
File the new water readings, because this fish reports water quality on its face
A rummy-nose tetra's crimson head is a living water test: in clean, settled water the red is deep, and when conditions slip — a cycling filter, a different tap supply, a missed water change — the colour washes out to pale pink. Test the new home's tap water for pH, hardness, and the nitrate level straight from the tap, and record those numbers as the new supply's baseline. Rummy-noses do best in soft, acidic water, so if the new supply runs hard and alkaline, that fact on paper explains a school that looks washed out in its first weeks and tells you the change to manage is the water, not the fish.
Count the school while the tank is empty
Nobody counts a settled rummy-nose school accurately; the fish move as one shimmering unit and double-counting is guaranteed. The move, with the tank drained to a few inches, is the moment to get a true number and write it into the stocking record. An accurate school size matters beyond tidiness: rummy-noses school tightly when they feel secure and scatter when numbers drop too low, so a record that says twelve when only six remain hides the real reason a once-tight school has turned skittish, and it misleads any sitter asked to confirm all the fish are present.
Rewrite the emergency sheet around this school's signals
Your new sitter sheet should carry the new address, the new local emergency contact, and one species-specific instruction: judge the school's wellbeing by its faces and its formation. Deep red heads and a tight, travelling group mean the tank is fine; pale faces and fish hanging separately mean the water needs testing that day, not at the weekend. Add the new home's practical details — which sockets run the filter, where the test kit and water conditioner are stored now — because the cupboard layout that a regular helper knew at the old house no longer applies.
Sort deliveries, shop accounts and any service contracts
Frozen and dry food deliveries, plant orders and supply subscriptions all need the new address, and a frozen parcel delivered to your old doorstep is money and food lost. If the move puts you in range of a different fish shop, register the school there and note in your own records where the fish originally came from, since the source and how long the school has been with you are the first things a vet or shop will ask about if the fish ever show flashing, spots or wasting.
With the school count corrected, the new water readings filed and the sitter sheet rewritten, KinsLe's Pet Passport gathers a rummy-nose school's paperwork into one portable packet that can go to a new vet, shop or sitter without anything being re-remembered.