HELP with moving sal****er tank/corals

[Me]

Hello,
I'm moving my 50gallon reef about 7 hours away...
Any suggestions on moving the fish/corals.
I've got the local petsmart to agree to giving me some oxygen for the
few fish I'm moving.

About the corals (mostly mushroom rocks) and a few frogspawns.
Do you suggest bagging them individually (I think too many to ask
PetSmart to add oxygen... they were hesitant to do even the fish) or
perhaps putting them into a styrofoam container/cooler with lots of
water (not individually bagged)

any other suggestions?

THANK YOU

[Chris Taylor]

I moved a tank some years ago. The trip was only about an hour. Purchasing a
second tank helped. I prepped the cheap tank with a water change from the
original and didn't bother about lighting. The fish were transported in a
large covered bucket and the corals in plastic bags and then moved into the
original tank at leisure over the next few days. You may be able to put the
fish into a camping water container if they're small enough.

Given the distance I'm not sure if you'll have these luxuries. You may wish
to consider an inverter to convert the car's 12VDC to local AC for the
heater to keep the water up to temperature.

With this distance in mind, it might pay to sell the fish and corals, keep
the live rock in bags and just buy more livestock once the tank's set up on
the other side?

Good luck with the move, and let us know how it goes.

Chris


"Me" > wrote in message
om...
> Hello,
> I'm moving my 50gallon reef about 7 hours away...
> Any suggestions on moving the fish/corals.
> I've got the local petsmart to agree to giving me some oxygen for the
> few fish I'm moving.
>
> About the corals (mostly mushroom rocks) and a few frogspawns.
> Do you suggest bagging them individually (I think too many to ask
> PetSmart to add oxygen... they were hesitant to do even the fish) or
> perhaps putting them into a styrofoam container/cooler with lots of
> water (not individually bagged)
>
> any other suggestions?
>
> THANK YOU

[Chris \(....\)]

"Me" > wrote in message
om...
> Hello,
> I'm moving my 50gallon reef about 7 hours away...
> Any suggestions on moving the fish/corals.
> I've got the local petsmart to agree to giving me some oxygen for the
> few fish I'm moving.
>
> About the corals (mostly mushroom rocks) and a few frogspawns.
> Do you suggest bagging them individually (I think too many to ask
> PetSmart to add oxygen... they were hesitant to do even the fish) or
> perhaps putting them into a styrofoam container/cooler with lots of
> water (not individually bagged)
>
> any other suggestions?
>
> THANK YOU



Im getting ready to do a similar move, except its about a 20 hour drive
towing my truck.
I managed to snag some large shipping coolers and bought some battery
powered air pumps. I'll be stopping halfway to do a water change and
probably run a pump and heater in it while i sleep. I'll use disposable
tupperware (with holes punched in them to allow water flow) to put most of
my corals and my clownfish in, each to their own except the clowns, they
stay together. I have bags that my LS will go in, and baring any major
incidents everything should be good to go.
Im not too worried about temp, since the time of year of the move.

I doubt i explained it right, but thats the general plan.