moving a fish tank

[eagle107]

i have a 10g tank, that i am going to have to move in 2 weeks
i have 3 fish (1 perc, 1 yellow damsel, watchman goby), 2 shrimp (1 pistle, 1 peppermint), some coral, snails, and hermits
i was going to bag every thing then move it, then just set it all back up when i get to the new shop i am putting it up at.
this is only 5 min away from where it is now so am thinkin this is the best way to do this
i just want to know your thoughts on this or if you have any better way of doing this
thinks for any help

 

[gfk]

when i moved my eclipse 12 it only had live rock and fish. but we took half the water out so we could carry it and put it in a big jug. left everything else including the fish in the tank. you might have to get buckets for the fish and liverock if there is corals on it, i havent experienced that yet.

 

[manjisann]

I had to move my tank during the winter in the back of a pickup truck. I just put the fish in a styrofoam cooler with a heater in it until I left, this kept the temp fairly constant. I would just use five gallon buckets with enough water to cover the rock and stuff. I would also recommend having some makup water handy. HTH

 

[laddy]

Moving tanks

sucks!!!!!!
I wish you the best of luck....I usually lose at least one item (when I did it in the past).

 

[hopkins6]

i just moved my tank down stairs and i put my fish in a bucket. they were a little shooken up but did not die
good luck:happy:

 

[jesatfis]

id take out rocks and 25-50% of the watter, last thing you want is a croshed fish or cracked glass

 

[laddy]

That's what I did the last time I was forced to move my 10g, I took out most of the rock, however the sand bed gets disturbed and I believe that leads to more problems that you can handle at one time in a nano.

 

[rubberduck]

wow that sucks

 

[queenangel920]

We had to move our 100 gallon when we moved into this house.
We put the fish in a large rubber container and the rock in several others. I would just do that. Bagging them sounds like too much work.

 

[roguetang]

Just bought a 75 from a guy in citti and moved in 300 miles. We did the same thing. I saved as much of his water as i could and droped the fish in a 5 gallon bucket, and off we went the hardest thing was keeping the fish warm. When we got to his house it was like 16c

 

[eagle107]

well the movie came it took me about an hour to movie it
all to the new shop. i ended up using 2 5g buckets.
it all went fine did not loss a thing.
but now i am thinkin of gitting a bigger tank for the shop
it is on top a cube stand at the end of the conter
so i think a cube tank would look nicer plus be bigger
thanks for all your help