need help with livestock ASAP

[Gymped]

I have been living in California for about a year now and a few months ago I set a reef tank up. As of today unforseen circumstances have forced me to move back to Florida abruptly if I can not figure out some things. I would like to find a way to ship my little bit of live stock back to florida as there isnt too much but items im sentimental about. If anyone would store this livestock and ship to me when my new tank is cycled in Florida I would gladly pay or give you some of the livestock for your trouble and cover all the shipping and more. I would be open to selling but as the Livestock is my old apartment I am unable to piece by piece sell it all because I cant be there to show the items to multiple people so I am looking for one of those 2 solutions Sell all to one person or have someone take live stock and hold until I can have my new tank cycled. I will list all the livestock:

1 Purple Tang (Got after 2 years in someone elses tank when moving tank this weekend currently in my tank that is way too small, had 5 foot long tank ready until this move got dropped on me, still eating perfectly fine no signs of any stress or ailments beautiful specimen)

Pair of Phantom clowns ( have been laying eggs under torch coral they host)

1 Lyretail anthias female

1 Firefish

1 Royal Gramma

2 Bangai Cardinals

1 Blood red shrimp

1 skunk cleaner shrimp

1 pom pom crab

1 anenome crab

4 Head Utter Chaos zoas

48 Head Red Hornets zoas

6 head purple people eaters

Purple Green torch 1 head

2 head Green Hammer

Green and Red Wellso neon green

1 Neon green long tentacle plate coral 4 inches across

1 neon green toadstool 3 inches across

1 bubble coral about 5-6 inches across when open

3 head neon candy cane

3 heads blue hornets

6 heads rastas

1 Toxic green paly

5 head giant green Paly I got from Mike the Grum forgot name

6 head Midas Zoas

10+ head bam bam

5 head BEBB

and about 10 other zoa frags I cant remember.

And huge amount of snails and hermits whoever helps can have as well.

The over floor space of this coral since most are on frag plates is very small.
I am open to all suggestions and I appreciate anyone who takes the time to look at this and or help me!

Have a great day,
Branden

 

[duyhuynh]

Can you post a few pictures of your tank?

 

[Gymped]

the rocks are all broken apart it is a red sea 34 gallon reefer I just got the Purple out of a 250 when we moved a tank job from IE and thankfully I took it the holding tank crashed with all other live stock so I planned to move it today into big tank in new apartment but that fell through. No coral on the rocks anymore all frag plates on sand bed

 

[Gymped]

https://www.instagram.com/p/BGVcKuRtXST/ This is a video of the whole tank bfore the frags all along sand bed and the plate/wellso added

 

[m0nkie]

I dont think majority of those livestock is worth shipping to Florida. You are looking at at least 200-300 shipping fee with all the bags of water.

I ship to east coast quite abit and a small box of coral is about 90$shipping

 

[Gymped]

what if I sold everything minus clowns and purple tang how hard would it be to ship 2 bags of fish.

 

[ezcompany]

you're looking at $50-100 depending on shipment speed and weight. I'm no expert but I'd assume a purple tang would need a good amount of water to ship.

 

[BeanMachine]

I have shipped corals overnight to the east coast. Specifically Georgia in a small fedex box priority overnight and the price was about $90.

My guess is 2 fish with a large amount of water in each bag, priority overnight, will cost you well over $100... probably more like $200. Unless you have a group fedex account or some way to get a better price on the shipping.

 

[Gymped]

I appreciate all the messages and support im getting. I am just trying to find the best route when doing all this but hell even if I wanted just my little frag plus of zoas it seems like it would still a bit cost prohibitive. Still open to more solutions or an offer for everything. There is no live rock for sale as I want to use the same structure in new tank and ill be taking it back in Uhaul (cant wait for that smell)

 

[BeanMachine]

I appreciate all the messages and support im getting. I am just trying to find the best route when doing all this but hell even if I wanted just my little frag plus of zoas it seems like it would still a bit cost prohibitive. Still open to more solutions or an offer for everything. There is no live rock for sale as I want to use the same structure in new tank and ill be taking it back in Uhaul (cant wait for that smell)

If you have a uhaul... you could set a tub up with a power head and air stone on an inverter in the cab.

I wouldn't bother with the corals. Florida is chaulk full of nice corals and lots of shops. I understand though about the sentimental value of your fish.

 

[Gymped]

I'd have to cycle my tank in Florida first too then. I feel like if I want shipping a pair of clowns and my purple tang for about $100 wouldn't too bad but could be a bit low on the estimate side

 

[ezcompany]

even with a uhaul it would not be worth the hassle of transporting live rock with water across the nation. seriously, unless you have a once in a generation coral or fish specimen it's not worth trying to move things into a new environment that far.
even if you do get your stuff there in one piece you'll still have to test to see if anything cycled, your brand new tank will probably go through a mini cycle of some sort, its just not going to be worth it imo.

 

[m0nkie]

what if I sold everything minus clowns and purple tang how hard would it be to ship 2 bags of fish.

you need 2 bags for clowns and 1 huge bag for the Ptang. Box size will be around 2x2x2ft. Cost around $150 at least. you also have to lie to FEDEX because they don't allow shipping live fish without permit. and if they die, no money back

 

[Gymped]

Yah I don't care about keeping rock alive but I want to keep the rock because of how crazy he structure is even if it dies I can reuse in new tank just going to be a bit nasty at cycle

 

[m0nkie]

nice pieces! use muriatic acid to bath it before cycle. It will get rid of all the nasty stuff for a quick clean cycle

 

[iSeeMax101]

This hurts my heart a bit. I hope you get this all figured out. Monkey has some pretty solid advice. I would just keep the clowns and ptang. Maybe find a LFS out there that you can make friends with that will receive them and another out here to properly ship them and your problem is solved for a bit.

SeaSide in Huntington Beach ships so they might be able to help.

 

[Gymped]

The rock can't be acid dipped because of the rock consistency it can crack with acid erosion so I have to just long duration cycle it that 18 inch X 18 inch shelf is a show piece shelf I don't want to risk it

 

[bobafet1]

Id be willing to babysit your stuff for you. I have a 300 gallon tank that's bare bottom. I can keep most of your stuff separate. no need to pay me $$$. I'd be cool with small frags that might fall off. Just PM me if you're still wanting to go that route.

Where in FL will you be? My brother stays out there and I'll be visiting him in October.

 

[iluvmyfishes]

I can help, I sent a pm.

 

[Gymped]

Thanks Bobafet1(to answer your question I live in the Tampa/Clearwater area in florida and Went to college in Orlando) and everyone else who has been a huge help in attempting to help me preserve my livestock even if I am forced to relocate. I think I will be able to manage to get it done to stay out here. Fingers Crossed as I only have 12 hours or less to cancel the Uhaul deal I got to go back to Florida. Another big thanks to Mike the Grum for holding about 50 gallons of Saltwater needed for my new tank and cycling hundreds of Lbs of rock for my new system without even knowing if ill be able to stay or not, I greatly appreciate all the support and if I stay trust me I will be doing alot of retail therapy so hopefully I can return the favor to some of you fellow reefers and stock my tank with your frags! Hope everyones weekend is off to a great start!