Moving Fully Stocked IM 20 Gallon

cameron’s reef · Mar 31, 2025

Hello all, I am Moving from the Bay area to Idaho within the next month and have a fully stocked 20 gallon reef tank running and want to bring it with me. I have probably around 50-60 individual corals in the tank and a light stock list. My best idea that I have in my head is individually bagging mostly all of the corals so they wont sting each other and putting the rocks, substrate and Bio media in a separate bucket. Then putting the fish and inverts in a different bucket with the tank empty. I will make sure to bring plenty of extra pre mixed water. This is going to be around a 12 hour drive and will be a total pain in the butt but i'm hoping it runs smooth. Any advice or anything I should do different would be much appreciated and hope to hear from yall.

Hairyteeth · Mar 31, 2025

cameron’s reef said:
Hello all, I am Moving from the Bay area to Idaho within the next month and have a fully stocked 20 gallon reef tank running and want to bring it with me. I have probably around 50-60 individual corals in the tank and a light stock list. My best idea that I have in my head is individually bagging mostly all of the corals so they wont sting each other and putting the rocks, substrate and Bio media in a separate bucket. Then putting the fish and inverts in a different bucket with the tank empty. I will make sure to bring plenty of extra pre mixed water. This is going to be around a 12 hour drive and will be a total pain in the butt but i'm hoping it runs smooth. Any advice or anything I should do different would be much appreciated and hope to hear from yall.

So I just moved from California to Kentucky here’s the method

Hairyteeth · Mar 31, 2025

Everything goes in fresh clean salt water, fish don’t get fed two days before or at all while traveling
Rock goes in a bucket, coral in bags in the bucket, fish get their own bucket as well….each bucket gets an airstone
Each bucket gets a heater, they make 5 watt heaters usb that are great