Moving Animals

[Bubafish]

:roll: Hi, Im soon (well in the next 6 months) going to be making a big move From Rhode Island to Missouri. Most of the plans for moving are simple and straight forward. The only think I'm solisiting opinions on are the moving of the Fish and corals. I feel I have two options.

The LR/LS will be traveling with me in the back of my pickup in a 150 Gallon RUbermaid. It will have most of its usual pumps es skimmer using an inverter powered by the truck. The movers will hande moving the tanks and stands.

TWo optoins I have for moving the fish/corals etc.

My first idea was to Bring the Fish/corals to a friends LFS and have him house them until I was reset up and have them overnighted to me. Expensive and involves the stress of overnight air frieght on the animals.
One or two are large and that is part of my concern.

The second option is to Bring them to the LFS and return with my rubermaid setup in my truck once I have reset the tanks or at least a resonable holding facility and drive the fish down the same way I moved the LR/LS.

Opinions? Anybody done it?

tnx de John da bubafish

 

[Anonymous]

When I moved from Virginia to Iowa, my husband came out about a month early and set up a tank with live rock and sand and just let it run.

Then, when I was ready to come out we put all the fish and corals into rubbermaid tubs with battery powered airstones, put them in the car and drove 18 hours out here. Large sailfin tang, big hippo tang, and lots of little fish, didn't lose one, nobody got sick, all the corals came out fine.

So maybe you could leave your fish with the LFS, get settled in your new house and get a tank up and running, and then go back and get them?

 

[Bubafish]

Yes that was option 2. Sounds like it worked for you. Should work for me. I have two fish that concern me 1 14 inch Unicorn tang and One fresh water Catfish 19inches. All in all I would feel better with these in my rubbermaids in my truck than going through shipping. tnx de John da bubafish

 

[Anonymous]

The only problem we had was we tried to stack the tubs and even though they "held" when they were intially were put in the car, after a full day of driving the ones on the bottom started to bow out.

We just tried to keep the car "tank temperature". I checked the temp of the tubs when we got to our destination and they were about 75, not too bad!