So last month my husband and I moved to a new home about 45 minutes away and I was extremely nervous about moving my 72 gallon bowfront.
Don't worry, everything survived but man was it a pain in the back. My LFS gave me a ton of plastic bags and rubber bands and I still had the styrofoam boxes from a year ago when I got the live rock. So the fish went into combinations in two bags and each coral got its own bag. The live rock I put in the styrofoam boxes w/ wet newspaper on top and the sand went in two buckets.
I did not save any of the existing water as I had no options to move it. (Our move was forced to occur earlier than planned...) The only water that made it to the new home was what was saturated in the sand and in the bags with the fish and corals. BTW, the bags of fish and corals also went into a styrofoam box as it's pretty darn cold in New York the end of February.
As there was no way in heck I wanted the bowfront tank going into the UHaul my stubborn self and my husband ended up carrying it out to my car and putting it in the back seat with not an inch to spare on either side. Mind you there was still some remaining sand in the bottom so that's where the pain in the back comes in... :lol:
I kinda felt bad that my husband had to deal with it but then we also moved his three lizard tanks, one of which is a 180 with 1/2 inch thick glass. If you ever have to move something this heavy and bulky try to find a fried who installs windows so you can borrow their suction cups. Man did those things come in handy.
The best part of all this as that I've found my aquascaping comes out looking much better when I'm blindly feeling and placing it in cloudy mixed up water than when I originally had set it up. Go figure...
Anyway, lesson learned: Before we move to Arizona next year I'm going to be finding a home for everything in my tank as 45 minutes was stressful enough... I'm still amazed that everything lived and is doing great. Good karma kicked in for once...
Don't worry, everything survived but man was it a pain in the back. My LFS gave me a ton of plastic bags and rubber bands and I still had the styrofoam boxes from a year ago when I got the live rock. So the fish went into combinations in two bags and each coral got its own bag. The live rock I put in the styrofoam boxes w/ wet newspaper on top and the sand went in two buckets.
I did not save any of the existing water as I had no options to move it. (Our move was forced to occur earlier than planned...) The only water that made it to the new home was what was saturated in the sand and in the bags with the fish and corals. BTW, the bags of fish and corals also went into a styrofoam box as it's pretty darn cold in New York the end of February.
As there was no way in heck I wanted the bowfront tank going into the UHaul my stubborn self and my husband ended up carrying it out to my car and putting it in the back seat with not an inch to spare on either side. Mind you there was still some remaining sand in the bottom so that's where the pain in the back comes in... :lol:
I kinda felt bad that my husband had to deal with it but then we also moved his three lizard tanks, one of which is a 180 with 1/2 inch thick glass. If you ever have to move something this heavy and bulky try to find a fried who installs windows so you can borrow their suction cups. Man did those things come in handy.
The best part of all this as that I've found my aquascaping comes out looking much better when I'm blindly feeling and placing it in cloudy mixed up water than when I originally had set it up. Go figure...
Anyway, lesson learned: Before we move to Arizona next year I'm going to be finding a home for everything in my tank as 45 minutes was stressful enough... I'm still amazed that everything lived and is doing great. Good karma kicked in for once...
