Moving with my stingrays

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dparks87

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Hey guys I could really use some advice hear. I am going to be moving 1,000 miles in a month or so. It is my first time moving and my first time moving my fish. I will be selling off most of my stock but I really dont want to part with my male and female marble motoro. My male is about 12" and my female about 8". I have been preparing sponge filters that I plan to run with battery powered air pumps for over a month now. the trip will take 22 or so hours. Do you guys think that if I put the rays in storage containers filled 2/3rds water with two large sponge filters a piece that this will be enough. I really dont want to have to give them up and I would love to hear any ideas or exp with a situation like this.

Thanks guys,
Dave
 
Contact your local aquarium shop. Put tubing on your rays' barbs. You should starve them for 2 days, bring them to your local aquarium to be packed in a thick plastic bag pumped full of oxygen and put into a Styrofoam box. The box should be kept cool in the shade during transport.
 
i have moved the same way only 13 hours of driving with fish in a rubbemaid container only with a battery powered air pump no sponge filters and al were fine.

you will 100% for sure be ok 23 hours is nothing man.i get rays shipped from thialand to canada and the flight takes 44 plus hours but they are packed in pure oxygen,
but if you starve them for 3 days than drive for 2 days they should be fine with out pure oxygen.i like the idea of the sponges great idea!!! it will work just fine,you could even get some heat packs and stick on the outside of the container and maybe wrap up the container in styrofoam to insulate better and hold heat.how warm is it?? long as the water doesnt get much colder than 20degrees celcius they will be fine
 
lincolngoh;5161006; said:
Contact your local aquarium shop. Put tubing on your rays' barbs. You should starve them for 2 days, bring them to your local aquarium to be packed in a thick plastic bag pumped full of oxygen and put into a Styrofoam box. The box should be kept cool in the shade during transport.
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Agree 100% a bagged ray needs 1/8 the water you would need to run a tub with a sponge filter, plus you do not have to worry about water splashing out. You can take the ray boxes and stack them with you other cargo or set them in the seat with no worries.
 
I didnt even think of the bag in pure oxygen idea. I really like the idea that I dont have to worry about the water splashing and it would be a heck of a lot more compact. Thanks for the advice guys I feel a lot better having asked.
 
a storage container with air pumps will be fine, like said, starve them for a few days before the move.

lincoln, why would he need to put tubing on their barbs? the barbs will not pierce the storage containers, it seems like more of a hassle than it needs to be.
 
I have already done this, so I will tell you what I did.
I went to walmart and got a size rubbermaid container that would fit the rays I wanted to put in there. Rubbermaid with a lid. (made sure its a deep container)
filled with 1/4 full.
didnt feed my rays for two days just before the trip. but a day will be ok to if you decided to do it this way.
I put a small hole just the size of a airtube in the lid. ran air tube thru it, and added a airstone to it. then put a regular airpump on the other end. I powered it with one of those converters that plug into your cigarette lighters and that then puts out 110v.
This way I didnt have to worry about batteries for my portable air pumps.
after putting the rays in, put lid on and duck tape around the edges to make for sure its water tight...
Moved 24 hrs away. We didnt drive straight thru. So after stopping over night, I opened the container and put about a gallon and a half of RO water in the container to just give some freshwater to them.

Had no problems. Didnt have to worry about batteries running low or anything and rays had plenty of room to move around without an problems.

If a ray can travel over here from were ever and be in a bag for 48 hrs. then sometime have to travel again in another bag for 24 hrs, then for your trip they will be fine. My biggest deal is you take more of a chance keeping them in a bag that they have less freshwater for the bio to get deluted in. Thats why I did the rubbermaid trip since they have more water to keep the ammonia and any bio less than what would be in a bag.

I transported rays, aro's, CK and angels this way. Every fish I had lived with no problems what so ever..
 
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