Reef Tank

[ct_vol]

14 hours isn't too bad if you could do a few things at a time... The problem would be that you have to break everything down, drive 14 hours and then set it up again... I figure if I ever move further away, I'll set up a system at my new destination and transport things as I can... It would take more than a few trips, but I think they would fair better... I've brought plenty of stuff on 10-14hr trips from either Florida or Connecticut to here and rarely lose anything...

 

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<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11187371#post11187371 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by ct_vol
14 hours isn't too bad if you could do a few things at a time... The problem would be that you have to break everything down, drive 14 hours and then set it up again... I figure if I ever move further away, I'll set up a system at my new destination and transport things as I can... It would take more than a few trips, but I think they would fair better... I've brought plenty of stuff on 10-14hr trips from either Florida or Connecticut to here and rarely lose anything...

This is good to know you had done this before in that amount of hrs, and this assures me it can be done. I have set up second tanks with our past moves, and this may be an option again. Like when we moved from St.Petersburg, fl to Georgia (5 hr trip). We moved, two 55 gallons one 40 gallon the 75 and 120 with a 20-gallon cooler full of fish and three 5 gallon buckets with big fish in them.

 

[ct_vol]

The one disaster I had was when I was in FL visiting with my grandparents... I went around to various stores and picked up 4 fish... I bought 2 as soon as I got there and set up a temporary tank while I was there... And bought 2 the day I left... The two that I bought earlier in the week died in transport, the 2 I bought the day I left were fine... I believe that I didn't have enough difused oxygen in the ones I bagged up myself... I forgot to take into account the skimmers and other equipment in fully operational tanks that keep the water highly oxygenated... I only had a whisper filter and air stone in my temporary tank... I know some people use bait buckets to transport their fish and plug them into a power inverter that can be plugged into your car lighter... Hope this helps...

 

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<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11187745#post11187745 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by ct_vol
I know some people use bait buckets to transport their fish and plug them into a power inverter that can be plugged into your car lighter... Hope this helps...

Bait buckets is what we used with our other move, and I will do this with these fish too. Will the live rock and soft corals be okay without a air stone?

Thanks Randy for your help
Donna

 

[ct_vol]

I would think the soft corals should be fine w/o an air stone... I know the LR would be fine... Most companies just drape a wet cloth or towel over the LR, and usually ship it 2 day... So as long as there aren't any corals mounted to the LR, thats another consideration... I don't think you'd have too much die off in 14 hrs...

 

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<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11188409#post11188409 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by ct_vol
I would think the soft corals should be fine w/o an air stone... I know the LR would be fine... Most companies just drape a wet cloth or towel over the LR, and usually ship it 2 day... So as long as there aren't any corals mounted to the LR, thats another consideration... I don't think you'd have too much die off in 14 hrs...

We would transport the live rock and corals in a 55-gallon tote with most of the water from the tank. Will the water spoil? And, It would be a little longer than a 14-hr trip more like two days. I’m not able to ride 14 hrs in a truck.