Im moving really soon please advise

[prespr]

Hello, I am moving next weekend and it has crept up on me really fast. I am moving from Ballwin to Wildwood so a very short drive. I have a 75 gallon presently with no real corals but live rock a green mandarin dragonet and two clowns. Tank is 3 years old. I have a cannister filter, yes I know this is not optimal but it has been working for me for three years, a skimmer, Ph;s ect... My plan is to move my QT tank over to new house three or four days before move. Take 5 gallons two times from present fish tank and put in QT tank. Biowheel has been in main tank for about two weeks now. I have a new carbon filter for QT tank also. Then on the day I plan to move I will take out the live rock and put in new rubbermaid cans with water from tank. I plan on having new saltwater made up at new place. Catch fish and put them in separate bags. Drive over to new place and put them in QT, mandarin eats frozen food just fine so no issues there. Go back to old house put rest of water and sand in containers and move tank over to new house. Clean out fish tank and all powerheads and cannister with new medium. Put sand back in tank, put plate upside down in bottom of tank to put some water in. Add rock back, Put in more water and reconnect all the phs and filters and skimmer. Add new salt water about 20-30%. Let settle one to two days. Put fish back in main tank if numbers are ok. DOES THIS SOUND LIKE AN OKAY PLAN???? Thanks for any advise. I have never done this before and I am really wanting to save my fish.

 

[scbadiver]

It will work but...seems like a lot of extra work and expense to me. When we moved my 75 across town we pumped all the tank water (we could) into 32 gallon cans in the back of the pick up truck. As the wte level dropped we snatched all the critters and fish and put them into coolers. some of the rock was removed and put into other coolers and some was left in the tank along with just enough water to keep the substrate imersed. We slid the tank into the truck, next to the stand and away we went. As soon as we got there we set the stand and tank up, leveled it and started pumping the water back into the tank from the trash cans in the truck (parked in the garage). It took us about 5 hours start to finish and i lost not one thing, although the dang coral banded shrimp molted in the box during the move and lost a claw. I thought he was dead when I found the molt but luckily he was fine and his claw grew back. We did this with 3 people and one small pick up.

 

[ol'saltybastage]

when i moved from wichita i used two of those huge coolers, drained all my water into the two coolers except what was 1/10th of an inch over the sand to keep it moist. then i just placed the corals and fish and rock into the coolers. i used tupperware to keep agressive corals from the others. setup the tank added water, rock, fish, corals good to go.. that was a 8 hour drive and the cooler kept the temp very close to 80 the whole way.

 

[prespr]

okay, thanks, never thought of that approach. Guess I was just trying to make it harder than it needed to be. No worries about the tank breaking with all the sand in the bottom of it???

 

[ol'saltybastage]

I used a towel folded 3-4 times under the glass for support.. didnt have 1 problem.. 80mph all the way from wichita.. and if you've ever been to KC you know how rough 70 is.

 

[prespr]

okay, thanks for the advise. You guys have saved me a lot of work!

 

[prespr]

okay I am moved. Moved yesterday cleaned tank real good put new back on and everything back in tank. Critters seem to be doing ok, can't say the same for my back. Anything I should watch out for now???

 

[MayoBoy]

Just test for ammonia and nitrite and see if you're going to have a mini cycle.

 

[DrBDC]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7212699#post7212699 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by prespr
okay I am moved. Moved yesterday cleaned tank real good put new back on and everything back in tank. Critters seem to be doing ok, can't say the same for my back. Anything I should watch out for now???

Numbness of extremities, tingling like pins and needles in extremities, headaches, loss of range of motion longer than a couple days, loss of bladder control. Oh, the tank :lol: watch the amm and nitrites.