Help relocating aquarium! Advice needed

[ztc]

Relocating help

Hey guys, need a little advice regarding removing livestock.

Will be moving small 30g reef 24-30 hours away.

Plan is to set up new aquarium in final destination 4 weeks prior to leaving, hoping that it will be cycled, dry rock bottle bac (MIL) will be doing that.

On moving day, planning to break down the aquarium, bag all fish and coral in seperate bags with 1/3 water to 2/3 air (not pure o2, put air stone in bag for few minutes prior to adding livestock to bags). Place in foam boxes with heat pack x2. Estimating fish will be bagged for 24 hours, max 30 hours

Live rock will be stored in plastic bins with tank water but not heated or circulated.

Current tank will be stripped and loaded into car - shallow 2ft cube. Any advice on anything materials to pack it with? Cade 600 frag

Hoping to temp acclimate livestock once at final destination and put live rock in sump (max 30 mins)

Does anyone have any advice on anything I have not planned for? Or if you have done something similar and wish you knew things prior

Thanks ZTC

 

[TX_REEF]

without temp control or circulation, I think some die-off from live rock is possible.

Would you be able to add some of your current live rock to the new system in advance? That would help kick-start the new system.

Also if it were me, I'd probably try to keep the fish and rock together with battery operated heat and circulation, if that's a possibility...

Might be fine though, fish routinely survive 24+ hours in transit during shipping.

 

[jabberwock]

Can you board the livestock at a LFS for a week? Move tank and set it up, then move fish?

 

[wasabi bean]

When i moved my livestock , although only to a new tank in the house i wish i had a larger tub for the rock as i was worried it would maybe fall and damage my corals, especially if you are driving a long way especially as you seem to have some nice leathers you probably don’t want to damage, also probably don’t feed the fish the day before, i think that is what some companies do to reduce waste in the bag water

 

[ztc]

without temp control or circulation, I think some die-off from live rock is possible.

Would you be able to add some of your current live rock to the new system in advance? That would help kick-start the new system.

Also if it were me, I'd probably try to keep the fish and rock together with battery operated heat and circulation, if that's a possibility...

Might be fine though, fish routinely survive 24+ hours in transit during shipping.

Can put heater and air stone on with rock in bucket. Worries fish will get squished with rocks lol. Car has to go on a choppy ferry.

Thinking of taking some biometric from current tank to seed new one

 

[ztc]

Can you board the livestock at a LFS for a week? Move tank and set it up, then move fish?

Can’t, planning on setting up new tank 4 weeks prior to leaving