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Jack Dempsey
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so.... Im graduating College In a month, May 9th, UW-Stout with a degree in Mechanical design engineering.

I have to be out of my apt (Town Home) on May 25th. Moving to my parents house for a couple months (hopefully thats all) Until I find a job and pay off a little bit of my student loans.

This is my plan.
I have an extra 150 gallon right now. I plan on bringing that to my parents, setting it up a filter from my main tank (370). Let that go for a week. Then move my rays and my big tank all together. The tank has two fx5s on it and a 75-100 gallon sump. There are 5 rays smallest is 10". I would put them each in thier own rubber made and I have two ac to dc converters so i can power two air pumps which has two outlets on them. One will have to split the air. I live an hour and a half away from school. So I figure by the time I take down the tank, and load it into the uhaul and set it back up... the rays will be in the rubbermaids for about 4 hours.

Once i get to my parents I plan on setting up the 370 right away and take the 150 gallons out of the 150 gallon tank and put it in the 370. Then fill it the rest of the way up with all of the filtration added again. This way it is basicly a huge water change.

I plan on not feeding them for two days before the move. Should i go longer?

Any suggestions on what i should do differently? I plan on leaving the fx5's full durring the move to not get rid of any bio.
 
48 hour starve is fine.... that will purge them out...
 
Sounds like a safe well thought out plan but a better much safer plan would be to sell me some of your stock....lol
 
sounds good. i am afraid the huge water change on the 370 might be too much and kill bacteria in ur filters. any ways of preventing this?
 
well the "waterchange" would be about 60-70% since its a 150 to 370 gallon, My fx5s will be full of the original water from the tank durring the move. I can always leave it slightly lower than full, but that means I couldnt use my sump because it is an overflow, I would rather fill it to use that filtration as well.
 
How long have your FX5 been running ?

If the fx5 have been running for a while, you'll be okay.

You may want to start getting some sponge filters and run them in the 370 right now.

As long as the new water have the same PH as your current PH, I wouldn't worry.

I bought a running setup before, drove the fish and the tank to my office that was 5-6 hours away. Setup the tank, fill up with water, run 3000 watts of heaters to get it up to temp and dump the fish in. The only bio bacteria I have were the 2 - eheim 2217 that were running for a year before it was disconnected. I left the water in it during transport.

stan
 
Gr8KarmaSF;3004801; said:
Sounds like a safe well thought out plan but a better much safer plan would be to sell me some of your stock....lol
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:nilly::ROFL: You just want to get ur hands on my ladies with the ghetto booties
 
flamenco-t;3005128; said:
How long have your FX5 been running ?

If the fx5 have been running for a while, you'll be okay.

You may want to start getting some sponge filters and run them in the 370 right now.

As long as the new water have the same PH as your current PH, I wouldn't worry.

I bought a running setup before, drove the fish and the tank to my office that was 5-6 hours away. Setup the tank, fill up with water, run 3000 watts of heaters to get it up to temp and dump the fish in. The only bio bacteria I have were the 2 - eheim 2217 that were running for a year before it was disconnected. I left the water in it during transport.

stan
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Yea two fx5s are running on it now... and have been for months... I do have an 8' in dia pearls of paradise pond. But my parents arnt to happy about bringing the 370 into the house let alone setting up a pond in the basement.... they are the kind of people that think fish only grow to the size of thier tank :WHOA::screwy:
 
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