Was liking some advice on how to make a 4 hour move and keep my livestock alive and my rock wet i assume ill be getting a few five gallon buckets and putting my rocks with current water in them. but i dont wanna murder my little kritters
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There are lots of threads on here discussing moving tanks. You should be fine. How big is your tank? Being from Georgia you shouldn’t have to worry about temps being too cold.Was liking some advice on how to make a 4 hour move and keep my livestock alive and my rock wet i assume ill be getting a few five gallon buckets and putting my rocks with current water in them. but i dont wanna murder my little kritters
Congrats on the new position. 4 hours is no problem. A couple USB powered heater and airstones is all you need but neither is necessary as long as you can keep the water temp at least low to mid 70's. I have moved my 120g tank a few times over the years and everything sits in bins/buckets for longer periods than that with no airstone.Was liking some advice on how to make a 4 hour move and keep my livestock alive and my rock wet i assume ill be getting a few five gallon buckets and putting my rocks with current water in them. but i dont wanna murder my little kritters
Congrats on the new position. 4 hours is no problem. A couple USB powered heater and airstones is all you need but neither is necessary as long as you can keep the water temp at least low to mid 70's. I have moved my 120g tank a few times over the years and everything sits in bins/buckets for longer periods than that with no airstone.
I would also not place fish in a bucket with rocks that can shift or fall. I have only lost one fish over the years in my moves and it was because a wrasse got squished under a shifting rock.
My other suggestion would be to make up a lot more water than you think you will need. never hurts to have extra made even if you don't use it. Seems I am usually short in the end as I don't like to use any main tank water after I start pulling rocks out and disturbing the sand.
luckily my work truck has a 1200w inverter i plan on putting the fish and anemone in a a 1/2 gallon feeder like container for reptiles (plastic with a vetned top) and i have an even smaller one i was planning on using for the coral so i could keep light on them, but i wouldn't be able to utilize a heater but the could ride up front with me in the heated cab, the truck does not have a bed but i work for uhaul so i will be using a box trailer to move, any LFS to me is almost an hour and a half any direction, and most of the live stock rode home with me in a bag with water and nothing else sometimes taking 2+ hours to get home, but it also wasnt cold outside, and I have to account for the time to set the tank up where i am going so livestock in a bucket wouldn't be a bad choice and i could put lights on them when i get to where i am going, but i dont want to ride the buckets with livestock in the trailer, and not know whats going on with them and not sure how well they will fit in the cabLots of newer vehicles have 120v plugs/outlets in them now.... My truck has one that is rated for 300w.
Would be easy to plug in a small heater/air stone if necessary and could put them in a bucket with lid or even a cooler if necessary.
its 55 gallons have 6 corals, an anemona two clowns an emerald crab and a lawnmower blenny
Don’t have photos of the new tank yet it’s still at the store and they are only open Friday Saturday and sundaySo things did not go as planned at all, ended up draining most the water out the tank and leaving everything except the anemone in the tank for the ride in the back of the truck, I did put the rock in buckets of the current tank water, it actually went well almost everything survived one of my montiporas is looking dead, didn’t find him due to being covered in sand till the next day, all three fish seem to be happy, and the coral is growing being only two days since the move, although when refilling the tank the center support popped and split on the last load of water, so I had to sit there and hold the front and back together till my dad found two 2x4s and we ratchet strapped them together to hold it for now, I wasn’t planning on telling my parents I had bought a used 65 gallon cube the day before that came with an actual reef light, skimmer, filter and stand for 250, but while holding the tank together I thought was a good time to tell them, I won’t be setting up the cube until I get a house rented in my new route though and it needs a deep cleaning
great price on the 65 and equipment!So things did not go as planned at all, ended up draining most the water out the tank and leaving everything except the anemone in the tank for the ride in the back of the truck, I did put the rock in buckets of the current tank water, it actually went well almost everything survived one of my montiporas is looking dead, didn’t find him due to being covered in sand till the next day, all three fish seem to be happy, and the coral is growing being only two days since the move, although when refilling the tank the center support popped and split on the last load of water, so I had to sit there and hold the front and back together till my dad found two 2x4s and we ratchet strapped them together to hold it for now, I wasn’t planning on telling my parents I had bought a used 65 gallon cube the day before that came with an actual reef light, skimmer, filter and stand for 250, but while holding the tank together I thought was a good time to tell them, I won’t be setting up the cube until I get a house rented in my new route though and it needs a deep cleaning