RE: Moving a large saltwater tank

["Cartwright, Scott C" <Scott.Cartwright@PSS.Boeing.com>]

Eric,
        I am not sure about the particulars for bagging invertebrates but I 
would definitely be careful of some species. Not only because they may be 
delicate but you may want to wear gloves to protect yourself from a sting.  You 
probably don't have any thing like "fire corals" in the tank but I would check 
them out before handling them.


> ----------
> From:         Eric Johnson[SMTP:etj@nwlink.com]
> Reply To:     gsas-member@thekrib.com
> Sent:         Thursday, November 02, 2000 10:57 AM
> To:   gsas-member@thekrib.com
> Subject:      Re: Moving a large saltwater tank
> 
> 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 
> > ICQ 19235792 
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