Moving tank.
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monalisa
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Originally Posted by theappe
Im gonna be moving soon and I wanted to know if anyone had some advise on how to move my tank. Thanks in advance!
Plan, plan, and then plan some more. We moved my daughter's 55gal tank about 65 miles.
First, plenty of bins to easly transport critters, rock, water. We kept her critters and live rock in the same bin and we were able to purchase some kind of outlet thing that plugged into the cigarette lighter of the van to keep the water aerated (air stone) and heated (heater) during the transport.
Once we reached out destination, we added as much water to the tank possible (the sand was kept in the tank during transport) and let that heat and aerate overnight. The next day, we added the live rock and critters that had been in a bin overnight being heated and aerated, and the rest of the water. Done.
It went really better than we thought it would. She had very few critters, just hermits, snails, emeralds, that kind of thing. I would imagine it would be more stressful with fish. Just be sure to get all your ducks in a row and go over your plan time and time again.
Lisa :happyfish
Im gonna be moving soon and I wanted to know if anyone had some advise on how to move my tank. Thanks in advance!
Plan, plan, and then plan some more. We moved my daughter's 55gal tank about 65 miles.
First, plenty of bins to easly transport critters, rock, water. We kept her critters and live rock in the same bin and we were able to purchase some kind of outlet thing that plugged into the cigarette lighter of the van to keep the water aerated (air stone) and heated (heater) during the transport.
Once we reached out destination, we added as much water to the tank possible (the sand was kept in the tank during transport) and let that heat and aerate overnight. The next day, we added the live rock and critters that had been in a bin overnight being heated and aerated, and the rest of the water. Done.
It went really better than we thought it would. She had very few critters, just hermits, snails, emeralds, that kind of thing. I would imagine it would be more stressful with fish. Just be sure to get all your ducks in a row and go over your plan time and time again.
Lisa :happyfish
theappe
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i have a 30 gal. i need to move it about 5-10 miles. not too sure on the distance, but its pretty close. what i imagined to do is get baggies and bag all the fish just like in the fish store then move the tank and corals and then set everything up and temperature acclimate the fish again. lets see what happenes.... any other input?
monalisa
Active Member
Originally Posted by rbaldino
Go to your LFS and see if they'll give you any of the big styrofoam boxes they get stuff shipped to them in. They'll hold all your rock and fish and help keep temps stable.
That's a good idea, or just collect a bunch of coolers to hold your livestock while they're in the bags...that should also help to keep the temps a little more stable.
Good luck to you. Let us know how it goes. When is your move?
Lisa :happyfish
Go to your LFS and see if they'll give you any of the big styrofoam boxes they get stuff shipped to them in. They'll hold all your rock and fish and help keep temps stable.
That's a good idea, or just collect a bunch of coolers to hold your livestock while they're in the bags...that should also help to keep the temps a little more stable.
Good luck to you. Let us know how it goes. When is your move?
Lisa :happyfish
