Well the move went terrible¡K we only re-located about 15 minutes from our old house but did the tank on Monday when it was roughly 15 degrees. It took a total of 11 hours to pack up all the coral/fish, tear down the system, load everything on the truck, drive there, and setup and unpack. I got about 80 small snap food containers at the dollar store and 12 or so of the small styro coolers for fish and larger pieces of coral. We had 55g trash cans in the moving truck with extension cords and heaters so the water stayed around 80 degrees while we loaded everything. Everything was kept inside where it was nice and warm until all tanks and the frag system was loaded into the truck. At that point we loaded all fish and coral and drove right over to unpack.
We had everything set up Monday evening but I didn¡¦t finish the plumbing until Tuesday evening. Some of the coral was still in the containers but I had it floating in water somewhere that was 80 degrees so the temperature was stable. I figured coral gets shipped overnight all the time so I¡¦d be fine leaving them in there for roughly 24 hours. Well¡KI was wrong, almost everything I left in containers didn¡¦t make it. In addition I lost about 10 pieces of show size corals and probably 80+ frags.
The fish went in the tank right when we had everything set up. They were loaded in the styro and the water actually stayed very warm the entire time. Unfortunately I lost my Vlamingi tang which was my favorite fish, had her for 5+ years, lost my foxface, royal gramma, cleaner shrimp¡K and who knows what else yet. I hooked up my new MSX 250 which has been pulling all sorts of crap from the water and am running a ton of carbon. The water was much better last night and this morning.
My best guess is a few corals or pieces of LR weren¡¦t happy in the move and after a couple things starting crapping out it detoriated the water quality and began the crash cycle of the more that dies the worse the water gets the more that dies etc etc. I¡¦m pretty bummed out at this point¡K some of the coral was purchased years ago when I was young/dumb with money and I¡¦ll never spend that kind of money again to replace them Æ'¼ Years of swaps and trades etc etc all gone. I seriously considered breaking it all down but my wife urged me not to give up.
We had everything set up Monday evening but I didn¡¦t finish the plumbing until Tuesday evening. Some of the coral was still in the containers but I had it floating in water somewhere that was 80 degrees so the temperature was stable. I figured coral gets shipped overnight all the time so I¡¦d be fine leaving them in there for roughly 24 hours. Well¡KI was wrong, almost everything I left in containers didn¡¦t make it. In addition I lost about 10 pieces of show size corals and probably 80+ frags.
The fish went in the tank right when we had everything set up. They were loaded in the styro and the water actually stayed very warm the entire time. Unfortunately I lost my Vlamingi tang which was my favorite fish, had her for 5+ years, lost my foxface, royal gramma, cleaner shrimp¡K and who knows what else yet. I hooked up my new MSX 250 which has been pulling all sorts of crap from the water and am running a ton of carbon. The water was much better last night and this morning.
My best guess is a few corals or pieces of LR weren¡¦t happy in the move and after a couple things starting crapping out it detoriated the water quality and began the crash cycle of the more that dies the worse the water gets the more that dies etc etc. I¡¦m pretty bummed out at this point¡K some of the coral was purchased years ago when I was young/dumb with money and I¡¦ll never spend that kind of money again to replace them Æ'¼ Years of swaps and trades etc etc all gone. I seriously considered breaking it all down but my wife urged me not to give up.
