Moving

seminolecpa

seminolecpa

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The wife finally talked me into buying a house so we are leaving the city and moving down to Burlingame in about 3 weeks.

Planning on moving my 58 gallon tank and resetting it up in the same day but I am a little short on water containers. I have 5 5 gallon jugs and am planning on putting most of my live rock and some water in a garbage can, but if anyone can loan me a couple more jugs I would surely appreciate it. I will probably need twice that many as I need to transport as much of my current water I can and have some more made up for after the move.

Also I am looking for a place to get some LFS type bags or something to transport my corals etc so any suggestions would be helpful.

Not quite the Texas to California move I did before but I am by no means looking forward to it.

Thanks in advance.
 
Brian,

I can help you out.

I have 4 or 5 buckets I could loan you for a week or so. I also have a bunch of LFS bags.

-Charles
 
When I have moved tanks in the past, I've borrow the 5 gal water bottles from work and return them the next day. As long as they don't tip over, they work great.

Be very careful about moving the sand bed (if you have one). I would suggest having a holding tank for your fish and letting the main tank rest for a few days in the new location before you put the fish back into it. There is almost no way to move or disturb the sand without endangering your critters.

Congrats on the new place. Now you can buy a bigger tank!

Best of luck,

Roy
 
Charles are your buckets truly buckets or are they water jugs that can be capped? My concern is that I live on the 3rd floor in a loft (so essentially the 5th floor) with no elevator and toting a bucket of water may get messy.

I will definately take you up on the bags. I may try also to get some tupperware type containers for my corals etc.

Radiolunatic, I appreciate the offer very much but you being in Richmond might make the transfer back and forth a little difficult.

Roy. Thanks for your advice. Luckily (or unluckily) I have moved them too. Way too many times. I plan on using this as an opportunity to get rid of my sand bed all together or at a minimum replacing it with a fresh one.
 
hi seminolecpa, if you want to make a couple trips out to the east bay to pickup radiolunatics too, i got three 5 gallon water jugs with caps that you can use, as well as a couple 7 gallon oceanic salt buckets with lids (not sure if watertight though..) that you can borrow..

by the way, the efflo frag you gave me for dbtc is growing out and coloring up nicely, i'm hoping to frag out in a bit to put back on dbtc.. if you come by you can check it out..
 
Brian - I also have 3-4 water jugs (the kind that you buy from the LFS) you can burrow. Let me know if you need them, I can bring to work with me and you can pick up in SF by UC.
 
if you move it on a monday or tuesday I can help you move. then in a couple of weeks you can help me move mine :)
 
Thanks everyone for the info and offers I think I have everything I will need via Maynor, cwolfus and skorpinok.

Looks like the move is going to happen March 3rd or 4th.
 
Brian - I have 5g water jugs and three 32g Rubbermaid trash cans two of which has casters on them.

I also have water hoses and extra Mag 5 pump to pump everything back in if you need to borrow.

I have extra 200w heater as well.

Umm...okay I have a lot of supplies - you are welcome to... power head, pumps, heater, etc.

It's like having an aquarium servicing business without really having one - lol :D
 
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