Moving need advice

jenlovesty · 08/24/2006, 04:58 PM

I am moving in a couple of weeks. The drive is only 3 hours. I have a 55 gallon and a 10 gallon reef. Each tank has live rock, corals, and fish.

What is the best way to move them?

Should we put all the corals and the fish in 5 gallon buckets with a bubbler or put each fish/coral in a plastic bag like the lfs?

What do you think?

TheMcs · 08/24/2006, 05:04 PM

I always used to 5 gal/bubbler method for fish and inverts. Move the rock submersed (rubbermaid or more buckets). Leave the sand in the tank undisturbed!
Easy enough, used to move a 58 gal reef while in college home in the spring and back in the fall. It was a 3 hour drive. Never lost a thing.

MCary · 08/24/2006, 05:36 PM

I moved a bunch of fish and corals in the back seat of an Explorer Sport Trac. Not actually the seat itself. That would be illegal since I didn't have seat belts for every body. But I threw them in a 40 gallon rubber made tote and then fill the tote about 1/3 full of water. Then I drove them 5 hours and dumped them in my tank. Didn't lose anything. About 20 corals LPS & SPS mostly. Hippo tang, Yellow and purple tang, Royal gramma, 4 reef chromis, 2 Ocellaris clowns, a coral beauty, Foxface Lo, snails and crabs, coral banded and cherry shrimp, and 2 pajama cardinals no bubbler, they did fine.

Mike

08/24/2006, 04:58 PM	#1
jenlovesty Registered Member Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Orlando, Fl Posts: 411	Moving need advice I am moving in a couple of weeks. The drive is only 3 hours. I have a 55 gallon and a 10 gallon reef. Each tank has live rock, corals, and fish. What is the best way to move them? Should we put all the corals and the fish in 5 gallon buckets with a bubbler or put each fish/coral in a plastic bag like the lfs? What do you think?

08/24/2006, 05:04 PM	#2
TheMcs Registered Member Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Broken Arrow, OK Posts: 2,272	I always used to 5 gal/bubbler method for fish and inverts. Move the rock submersed (rubbermaid or more buckets). Leave the sand in the tank undisturbed! Easy enough, used to move a 58 gal reef while in college home in the spring and back in the fall. It was a 3 hour drive. Never lost a thing. __________________ Evaporation and top off don't count as water changes... Current Tank Info: 185g Deep Sea display, 2x 40g frag tanks, 90g fuge, 60g sump (400+ gal system)

08/24/2006, 05:36 PM	#3
MCary Premium Member Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Hardin, Montana Posts: 3,142	I moved a bunch of fish and corals in the back seat of an Explorer Sport Trac. Not actually the seat itself. That would be illegal since I didn't have seat belts for every body. But I threw them in a 40 gallon rubber made tote and then fill the tote about 1/3 full of water. Then I drove them 5 hours and dumped them in my tank. Didn't lose anything. About 20 corals LPS & SPS mostly. Hippo tang, Yellow and purple tang, Royal gramma, 4 reef chromis, 2 Ocellaris clowns, a coral beauty, Foxface Lo, snails and crabs, coral banded and cherry shrimp, and 2 pajama cardinals no bubbler, they did fine. Mike