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Originally Posted by findingnemo1
We have 3.5 hours to drive and are useing a uhaul so am not sure how to do this as that truck is going to be really cold.
The fish and corals are all going in rubbermaids in the van but i have 100+ pounds of rock that i am not going to be able to fit in the van with water.
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Get some styrofoam boxes that have matching cardboard boxes. Wrap some heat packs in a couple layers of dry newspaper. Put a heat pack or two on the bottom of the styrofoam box. Put a "heavy duty" garbage bag (the green kind or orange etc) into the styrofoam box. Line the garbage bag with newspaper that you have soaked with tank water. I prefer to use the brown packing paper as there aren't any dyes, but regular newspaper seems to work fine. Put rock into boxes, cover the rock with more wet newspaper. Tie a knot in the garbage bag. Put one or two more newspaper wrapped heat packs on top. Put the styrofoam lid on the box, and tape it up very securely (in case the bag leaks). Put the styrofoam box into the cardboard box. Tape it up well.
Most heat packs will keep a box packaged this way warm for 48 hours. I would suggest that you put your rock into Rubbermaid containers with heaters and powerheads when you get to the new house, and monitor Ammonia and Nitrite for a week. You may get a small cycle.