Moving my 29g Biocube tomorrow

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Hello all, I'm moving my biocube tomorrow. But the move is literally less than a mile. How should I go about moving fish and coral? All in separate containers? All the fish in one? How long can they stay in containers? Thanks in advance!
 
Less than a mile is not very far at all, I would put your livestock in a few buckets along with your current water. Seperate stuff preferably, how many fish? They can stay in the containers as long as necessary but anything over roughly an hour the temperature and oxygen will start dropping; at which point you need airstones/heaters. You should be fine!
 
Use ur water in the tank put a little in a bucket put all the rocks in it, then fill another with more water from tank put all corals that don't sting in it, then seperate corals that sting in well sealed bags, and with ur size tank u prob have 3-4 small fish they will be fine it the bucket with the safe coral. I moved my 29 biocube like 5-6 times they will be fine for atleast an hr man while u transfer it al set up rocks then coral then add the fish. Itll be easy man. Gl! If you were closer id help ya sry man.
 
More than an hour make sure u have a few cheap heaters on hand. If you have corals that will release any sort of film/mucus when they are disturbed they NEED to be seperate from the other corals. I would go as far as to say individually bagging them is the safest route but for a mile down the road you may be able to bypass that.
 
Thanks everyone! I have 4 fish, hammer coral, 2 candy canes, montipora copernicous, pink polyp copernicous, and a brain. And then the clean up crew. Hoping everyone makes it alright. Thanks for the advice though! I'm hoping I can make the entire move 2 hrs or less. But I know I'm going to want to re do some aquascape so I'll make sure I have some heaters on hand haha
 
I would also recommend using some Stability just incase. Nitrate spike is inevitable...

Just my $.02
 
Less than a mile?
BioCube 29?

Heck, pull out about 1/2 of the water, you and a buddy carry it down the street and then put the water back in.
Easy as pie. :)

Seriously, I'd disconnect everything from the wall, stand, etc...
Drain about 1/2 of the water into a bucket. have someone help you carry it to the car/truck, whatever and take it that way.

Total time should be less than it takes you to get stuff home from a LFS and into your tank.
 
Y-Not;975756 wrote: Less than a mile?
BioCube 29?

Heck, pull out about 1/2 of the water, you and a buddy carry it down the street and then put the water back in.
Easy as pie. :)

Seriously, I'd disconnect everything from the wall, stand, etc...
Drain about 1/2 of the water into a bucket. have someone help you carry it to the car/truck, whatever and take it that way.

Total time should be less than it takes you to get stuff home from a LFS and into your tank.
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Carry a tank with half the water and all the coral almost a mile down the street...ah no. But yes to the rest of the plan but I say put most of the water in buckets, distribute rocks, coral and fish in the buckets and DRIVE it down the street. Once your there just put everything back in the tank and plug it in. Do a water change as soon as possible and monitor levels to make sure nothing gets out of wack, add some stability to be on the safe side. You should be fine.
 
dball711;975770 wrote: Carry a tank with half the water and all the coral almost a mile down the street...ah no. But yes to the rest of the plan but I say put most of the water in buckets, distribute rocks, coral and fish in the buckets and DRIVE it down the street. Once your there just put everything back in the tank and plug it in. Do a water change as soon as possible and monitor levels to make sure nothing gets out of wack, add some stability to be on the safe side. You should be fine.
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Yeah, there's no way I'd carry it either.
The BioCubes are really easy to move around just due to the size of the tank.
Mine has been picked up and moved with zero loss, countless times.

I dread having to move my 66 gallon tank if/when that time comes.
 
I just moved a 29g biocube about 20 miles. Showed up with a 20g brute trash can, 3x 5g buckets and some zip locks, live stock in 1 5g bucket, most of the water and live rock and some coral in brute, remainder of coral in zip lock and 5g bucket.

On arrival I have new water to match existing so I set the tank back up, put the new water in. Let it all settle then drip acclimated everyone to ensure as little shock as possible. I did re-use the sand so this whole process stirred up a lot of crap. the next day I replaced the filter pad and changed out about 8 gallons of water.
 
I'm beginning the process of the move now. Where to start haha. thinking I'm going to move all the live stock to my house first (since it's less than a mile) set them up with heaters and pumps for circulation and then come back and get everything else. I'm hoping by doing that I'm putting the less bit of stress of the critters considering I'm doing this by myself and I don't want them to wait while I have to de - assemble everything. I'll post some updates!
 
I'm taking all I can! I have 10 gallons of extra made along with some R/O water. I'm thinking I can put all my inverts (snails, shrimp, hermit crabs, etc) into one container with the corals? I would put them with the live rock but I don't want them to get smashed lol
 
They should be fine as long as the corals aren't extremely pissed and releasing slime, a lot of slime in one container can be lethal to other livestock. Given you aren't traveling far, be gentle and you should be just fine. Personally I would house them with the fish.
 
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