Re: Moving a large saltwater tank

[Eric Johnson <etj@nwlink.com>]

Thanks for the advice. I visited the tank this morning to check it out, and
its a pretty decent setup. 60" long tank, MH and fluorescent lights, big
berlin skimmer, sump, etc. It IS a full blown reef with anemones, big
corals, etc. four fish as far as I can tell - some sort of gobyish thing, a
couple clowns, a tang, and something I think is an angelfish.

I'm only moving it a few miles, from kirkland up to bothell, so temperature
swings during the move shouldn't be too outrageous. fortunately, I should
be able to park much of the livestock and rock in my existing 29G
sparsely-populated saltwater tank, and I'll set up one of my empty 10G
tanks.

Whats remarkable about this tank is the owner died several months ago and
the tank has gotten almost no maintenance, yet all the inverts and fish
seem to be doing fine, so it must be a fairly stable setup. Hopefully I'll
be able to put it all back together just as stable. 

I've never owned corals or an anemone, so I don't know how the fish stores
package them for transport. Do we do the bagging like we would for fish?

On Thu, 2 Nov 2000 09:36:30 -0800 "Frangooles, Bob" wrote:

> If it is a longish trip, and you have some delicate inverts, I
> would
> consider going the route mentioned below.  Trash cans work really
> well as
> they are so tall, you can fill them half way and avoid spilling. 
> Again if
> it is a long move, I would try and borrow an inverter and keep the
> tub with
> delicate stuff heated to the normal temp.  The live rock you can
> probably
> move in coolers, keeping them covered with a lot of wet newspaper.
>  
> Bob
> -----Original Message-----
> From: KhaosInc@aol.com [mailto:KhaosInc@aol.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2000 9:41 PM
> To: gsas-member@thekrib.com
> Subject: Re: Moving a large saltwater tank
> 
> 
>  I have a couple pointers that might come in handy... I have a 300
> gal, and 
> a couple 125s that I moved about 8 months ago.  First of all a 125
> is fairly
> 
> heavy <assuming its glass> but nothing 2 people couldn't carry.   
>     The second is how I moved all my fish and plants.  I have only
> 
> freshwater tanks but I assume this will work for saltwater just as
> easily
> and 
> have minimal stress on all livestock involved. Walmart, and most
> other large
> 
> stores of the like sell plastic multi use tubs with a locking lid
> in fairly 
> large sizes. I have several 90L and 50L tubs made by rubbermaid I
> picked up 
> for no more than $6-$7 a piece. I have also known people who have
> used CLEAN
> 
> 35 gal trash cans. I filled all the tubs with water from the tank,
> placing 
> the fish as separate as possible. I put a heater and bubbler in
> each and 
> secured the lid.  I then moved the tank to it's new location and
> brought
> over 
> the fish after it was set up.  This way I had a fairly decent
> percentage of 
> the water the fish were used to, and had a situation where I
> didn't have to 
> rush when setting up the tank. 
> 
> Hope that's a little help. 
> 
> "Those who are easily offended should be offended more often." 
> -Mae West 
> 
> Khaosinc 
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