And the fun begins

spit.fire · #1 10-07-2011, 11:32 PM

Get to move all my tanks to my new house tonight... All 7 of em which adds up to 250 gallons

badfish! · #2 10-07-2011, 11:34 PM

Good luck, hopefully all goes smoothly. Are you moving fish too or just empty tanks?

spit.fire · #3 10-07-2011, 11:42 PM

7 full tanks fully stocked and 2 empties

reefwars · #4 10-07-2011, 11:44 PM

fresh salt water mixed for topping off what got lost in travel

badfish! · #5 10-07-2011, 11:44 PM

Extra good luck then! I hope you have a plan, I've only had to move one fully stocked tank, and had another tank set up waiting for the livestock, so it went really smoothly. Keep us posted.

spit.fire · #6 10-08-2011, 01:44 AM

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Originally Posted by badfish!

Extra good luck then! I hope you have a plan, I've only had to move one fully stocked tank, and had another tank set up waiting for the livestock, so it went really smoothly. Keep us posted.

Ive got a 72 bowfront reef, a 90 gallon freshwater cichlid / bichir tank, a 55g planted tank, a 33 gallon planted tank, 2 25 gallon grow out tanks and a 14g biocube nano reef tank, the 33 planted will be swapped over into a new tank when i get there but the rest have to be moved with inhabitants

i have a 55g drum of premixed ro/di water sitting waiting to be used for topoffs / water changes at the new house and a bout a gallon of detox for if anything spikes

badfish! · #7 10-08-2011, 01:52 AM

You sound prepared! Hope it goes smoothly and quickly. I couldnt believe how long it took to move 1 tank.

doch · #8 10-08-2011, 03:06 AM

Wow. Moving one tank has always been the most stressful part of any move I've made. I don't envy you. Hopefully you have more patience than I do. Good luck!

spit.fire · #9 10-09-2011, 09:51 PM

so the move was a pain in the a**

everyone who was supposed to help bailed on me and so the fish ended up staying in buckets for a bit to long and i lost a few fish and got mad and threw a light into the trailer and broke it.... ya i know the light was my fault, ended up calling up a good friend of mine and he rushed out to come and help me move the 2 bigger tanks. He was kind enough to come to my new house as well and help set up the two bigger tanks. i moved all the water in 55 gallon drums and the fish from my 90g breeder freshwater tank were moved in one of the 55 gallon drums (i wasnt worried about them because they'll take air from the surface if they have to)

all the tanks are now up and somewhat running, my 90 gallon did good as i lost no fish but had a close call with a parrot fish (i wanted it to die... they're ugly) but it pulled through overnight

my 72 bowfront mixed reef tank was the one that caused me the most problems, i ended up losing 2 clownfish that i just bought about a week ago and a blue throat trigger that ive had for 2 years

from the looks of things my sps frags are not going to make it but all my softies in my biocube handled the move just fine

i also found my missing neon blue goby that was hiding in my sump, but it died aswell... no big loss, i thought it was dead anyways

good news is i found about 5 1" white bubble tip anemones hiding in the liverock in my reef tank

oh ya, and my uv sterilizer on the 72 decided to start leaking and its plumbed inline with hardline which means i have to replumb the whole system in order to get my sump up and running, but for now i have an ac110 and an aqua c remora hob skimmer

badfish! · #10 10-09-2011, 10:07 PM

That really sucks, but it could have been worse, that's a lot of fish/fish paraphenalia to have to move without help, when we helped my brother move there was 4 of us. Hopefully there will be no more casualties.