Moving

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greengiant

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ok so I am moving and its not just down the street. I have 5 tanks ranging from 20G to 250G all stocked. I have 1 truck to move them in one trip. its a 10hr drive. all the tanks have to be moved on the one truck in one trip as well as the fish. heres the plan

Sunday:
move fish from 20G,30G,50G to rubbermaid tubs on sunday move fish from 150G into 30G and drain 150G. move fish from 250G to 50G and drain 250G. load 250G in truck and build support to hold other tanks above it without putting weight on the tank. load 150G on top of 250G

Monday:

move fish from 30G into Rubbermaid, drain and load tank into truck.
load 3 fish from 50Ginto their own bubbermaids and drain tank and load.
Start Praying

(all filter media will be put in the rubbermaids with the fish to keep BB alive)
Drive as fast as is safe to do so
unload tanks and get them setup as quickly as possible and fill with warm water @80F treat water with water conditioner wait 1 hr add cycle wait 1 hr start acclimating fish to new homes (should take about 3 hrs).

Die due to lack of sleep and the stress of the move and finding people to help at each end knowing they don't know a thing about fish


is it worth it?

I hope so!!!
 
If you can try and keep some of the water to keep from over shocking your fish with all new water. If you do have to bag fish try and get some 100% O2 to fill the bags with! I did this when I moved my tank and it was an 8 hour drive and I had no casualties!!! But it sounds like you'll have bubblers for most of your fish so all I can say is good luck!!!
 
all I can save of the water is the amount in the rubbermaids and I can't fill them to full as the trip is a windy mountain road. I'm not looking forward to this actually but its a painfull reality.
 
for the most part the weather has been in the Hi teens Celcius but I hit a snow storm last week that sucked. about another few weeks before it becomes more stable. I'm not to worried about the weather on the trip just that it stays warm at my destination cause the tanks are gonna be outside at my parents place until I get a place of my own out there. so knowing I have to move them again sucks but thats life
 
Holy smoke. This makes me afraid to ever reach Mfk'er level... if I'm going to face this type of stress. Best of luck though. Hope everything turns out like you plan!
 
this would be alot easier if I wasn't restricted to space and could use a trailer but I can't otherwise it would be easy. also if I could do it all on the weekend it would be easier as I could have help to load and unload but I have to do it Monday so all heavy work has to be done on sunday on this end. everyone will be off work when I get to the destination so I will have help there. the drive will be easy. my dogs gonna be PO'ed cause his "spot" in the truck will have fish so that relegates him to a smaller area. my only real concern is stressing them out to much or having a breakdown which is unlikely as I have a good reliable vehicle but theres always the chance.
 
ok I'vehad several casualtys. I need to load the big tanks today because everyone has to work tomorrow. so this AM I emptied the 250 and 150 moving the fish into the 50 and 30G moved the fish from the 50 to a 20G and the 30 Gfish to a rubbermaid as well as the fish from the 20G. discovered the rubbermaid leaked so I had to move them back with the bigger fish (my other rubbermaids havent been emptied yet. within minutes there where about 20 fewer convicts and I missed seeing my rope fish jump out the back of the tank. I found him about an hr later dead and dry. grr. once I had a rubbermaid again I moved the small fish into it. alls well there. I looked at the 50G and my Alligator ger has a hybrid shark in his mouth about 8" somehow I missed seeing him when I moved the others out. I'm not concerned about the actual move I am starting to worry if my fish are gonna kill each other though. right now I'm waiting for help to move the big tanks they should be here in an hr or so
 
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