Moving adive and tips.

[seahorsedreams]

Put my tanks in the hands of a non-tank person!! *faints* Sometimes I wonder if non-tank people are even worth talking to, let alone touch my tanks (he he).

[PurpleAardvark]

Huh, you must be an AQUATIC SNOB!!!! just kidding. hey if they break it and I get a new one or if it makes there in same condition than it is a win, win situation. No one is to good to touch my tank if they are willing to pay for it.

[Sea~Horse~Whisperer]

When I moved my 125G I saved all of the water. I used brute cans with clear 50G bags in them. I filled them within 3 inches of the top and then rubberbanded the bags closed to stop the water from splashing out. I put all of my live rock in there too. All of the corals were bagged in fish bags and packed in styro boxes with bubble wrap. My fish were all transported in salt buckets with holes drilled in the tops just big enough for airline to fit in and I used the battery operated airpumps. The sandbed was left in the tank with plastic sheeting over it and wrapped bricks holding it down.

I moved the tank this way for a 6 hr trip. I didn't loose a single thing and everything was back in the tank and reset up in 10 hrs. I was tired and cranky and sore all over, but it was worth all of the work. The fish got a comfy home right away, we all slept on the floor because we were too tired to unload the beds. The only bad thing about the trip was the fact that I could never get the rockwork to look the way it did before the move. I even took "before" pics, but it didn't help.

Angie

[lReef lKeeper]

that is a problem i have too, Angie !! they NEVER look the same as before the move. but to look at that on a positive note ... you can take time to make it look BETTER than it did before.

[seahorsedreams]

The clam is a goner. One of my tubastrea is toast (I have no idea how that happened).

[Sweetpea]

Aww, I am so sorry to hear that!

[seahorsedreams]

Thanks. I'm sad about the clam... he's been around for years.

[PurpleAardvark]

When you move a big clam take water from the top of the tank and poor a little Dts in the container give it a little snack for the long ride so to speak. You can almost always reuse that water too because it is cleaner than when it was put in unless it doesnt make. Lossing big clams sucks when I lost my 10" teardrop maxima from a move I almost cryied. I had grown it from 4".

[seahorsedreams]

The clam is officially dead.

This was him a couple of years ago.

[mutts]

i'm sorry renee, he sure was a nice looking clam