Emergency!!

kablamo

kablamo

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My ceiling in my apartment is caving in and water is pouring into my apartment so i just foundout today that i have to move tomorrow!!
I have a 20 high reef and a five gallon that I filled with saltwater today and haven't got rock or substrate for yet,
I need some emergency moving tactics, like, i need to do this tomorrow in the AM and I am about to head to wally world to buy moving supplies.
the 20 high has
20 lbs live rock
30 lbs live sand
lmb
bicolor pseudocrhomis
one mushroom
please help, prompt answers will help a lot thanks, I have included pix of all my new stuff for your viewing pleasure.
1 full tank shot
 
coxy101

coxy101

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Gosh - I moved my 20 gallon so many times I had it down to a science! Take some like 3 or 4 big painting buckets you can buy at Home Depot (they're like 20 gallon buckets with lids). Put your rock in 2 of the buckets and fill with water to cover them. If you have more water, put it in the 3rd bucket. Don't fill the buckets to the top because it makes them hard to move and you have to be really careful when driving not to make a mess. Since you only have 1 coral, put it in a little tupperware container with aquarium water. The fish can be put in a plastic bag (like the LFS) or I just moved them in a plastic pitcher. After everything is out of your tank, add as much of the sand to the last bucket with enough of the tank water to cover the sand an inch or two. Don't move your tank with all the sand in it!! I made that mistake - and my tank got a leak a couple weeks later and I attribute it to trying to "cut corners" by leaving the sand in. Make sure you try to keep the buckets at a pretty stable climate (don't pump the AC on them or leave them in a hot car). When you get to your destination, you can add your sand back to the tank, slowly add the water (to avoid a dust cloud), put your LR back in and then drip acclimate your fish when everything is kind of settled (that's why I like to have my fish in a pitcher (I only had 1, like you).
Hopefully I didn't leave anything out.
Hope that helps...
 
kablamo

kablamo

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that was the most perfect reply i have ever read!!!
the thing is i am moving to an apartment about 150 feet away, so i will be carrying every thing, thank you so much for your reply!
I will let you know how it went!
 
kablamo

kablamo

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Well we got the key to the new place, and all is well so far, we have power at both locations and keys to both places until saturday, so i don't need to move the tank until the rest of the furniture is settled, so thats pretty good, Right now though, I am taking my computer to the new place so I won't have internet until the cable company puts the cable at my new place, so this is my last post until that time!
Thanks for the good luck wishes, this will give me a chance to get all the carbon i spilled out of the sand.
I just hope I can find all of my snails to put in a bag or something, getting covered in a foot or so of sand won't be too comfy for them!
Well, If I feed my fish they all come out so I should be able to take care of it.
Here goes nothin!!!
 
kablamo

kablamo

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I just realized that I never said anything about this till today,
Anyway, the move went fine, and all is well, it kinda sucked though, cause I had to do it myself, but everything turned out alright, thanks for the luck~!
 
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