The standard address updates, done for a school
Change your address and contact details with your fish shop and any aquatic vet, redirect food and supply deliveries to the new house, and rewrite the tank's sitter and emergency sheet. White cloud mountain minnows are kept as a school, so their records are group records: school size, tank, water and temperature. A move disturbs all four entries at once, and because white clouds are famously undemanding fish, their paperwork is the kind that drifts out of date for years until the day somebody actually needs to act on it.
Record the new home's temperature pattern, not just its tap water
White cloud mountain minnows are cool-water fish from mountain streams; they thrive in unheated tanks and fade, age early and breed poorly when kept warm year-round. The paperwork that matters most after a move is therefore a temperature note: record where the tank now stands — a cool hallway, a sunlit room, a spot above a radiator — and what the water temperature settles at across a warm afternoon. Test and file the new tap water's pH and hardness as well, but the temperature entry is the one that protects this species, because a new house that runs several degrees warmer is a slow problem that only written readings will catch.
Count the school and note its breeding group structure
A settled white cloud school is a blur of small, fast fish, and an exact count is nearly impossible until the tank is drained for the move. Take the number then, write it into the stocking record, and note the mix of the brighter, slimmer males and the fuller-bodied females if you can see it. White clouds scatter eggs among fine plants and often maintain themselves as a colony, so an accurate count plus a note on whether fry have been appearing tells a vet, a shop or a future keeper whether this is a stable school or a quietly shrinking one — a distinction memory alone gets wrong.
Rewrite the helper sheet with the cool-water warning
Your new sitter sheet should carry the new address, a nearby emergency contact, and one instruction that matters more for white clouds than for tropical tank mates: do not add a heater, and do not move the tank somewhere warmer, if the water feels cool — cool is correct for this fish. Note where the food is kept in the new house, which sockets run the filter, and that an unheated tank is intentional here, so a well-meaning helper does not 'fix' the setup. Add the new key holder's details and the fastest route for them to reach the tank.
Refresh shop, vet and delivery details for the new area
Register the new address with your fish shop and redirect every delivery — a small fish's food order is easy to overlook among the larger moving admin, and a parcel left at the old house is a wasted trip for whoever now lives there. If you switch to a shop nearer the new home, record in your own notes where the school came from and how long it has been with you. A tank maintenance service, if you use one, needs the new address and access details updated on its visit record.
Once the count, temperature note and water readings are written down alongside the new contacts, KinsLe's Pet Passport holds the white cloud school's paperwork as one tidy packet, ready for a vet, a shop or a covering sitter.