Moving across country, need advice

[hondo]

Moving from Portland OR. to San Antonio TX and was looking for advice on moving a reef across country. Have a 50 gal reef and a 40 gal reef. Am I screwed and need to sell everthing and start over or is there a way to do this.

 

[eelfreakrobi]

how about moving the corals and the fishes into a big plastic container where it wont break and carefully pack the tanks and when you get there just release some water and move the reefs and fishes back.

 

[alti]

r u flying or driving?

 

[hondo]

I'm driving and my tanks are being shipped along with my furniture by a moving company. I thought about moving the coral to a large rubbermade container but I will have no way to keep temp stable during the four day drive. also once I get there my tanks will probably be 1 week behind me and then I would have to set them up and recycle. I think I am screwed and will have to start over after selling everything off but thought maybe someone had done this or had some interesting ideas of how it could be done.

 

[chinnyr]

Wow!I've just been trying to figure out how to move across town.I've already sold my place and have 30 days to find a new one.Phew!

 

[alti]

4 days is definately too long. if i were you i would start over. it would be far less of a hassle. the only way i think you could do it would be to setup a tank in san antonio before you move and fly there with the livestock. it would be risky and there would most likely be a fair number of casualties from the move. not to mention the PIA of packing everything up and the cost of flying back and forth. you might want to try to keep your live rock. put it in a rubbermaid container when you leave and have a friend pack it up and ship it via airline freight when you get to texas.

 

[fishies]

Hondo, we too made a cross country move. I couldn't bare with leaving every one behind. Our lfs, held on to our fish and corals while we moved(we too were driving) All of the live rock was put into a large container with wheels with as much water from the tank as possible. The tank wasn't set up until a couple days after we arrived. So LR was in container almost a week. We set up asap with new LS etc., and got the LR in. The following week, our fish and coral were flew in, and all went very well. So, see if your LFS would be willing to help you out in this matter. If not mabye a wholesaler in your area would be willing to hold on to your live stock and ship them out to you. It's spendy, but for me was well worth it. Either way starting again too will be spendy, just depends on how attached you are I suppose. Good luck