Moving 29 Gallon Aquarium

[Dragonet]

I'm moving my 29 gallon aquarium to my new place but I'm curious as to what would be the best approach to this.
In the tank I have;
1 Banded Goby
2 Tomato Clowns
1 Long Tentacle Anemone
1 Pajama Cardinal
1 Scooter Blenny
1 Leather Umbrella
1 Moderate size family of button polyps
2 Camel shrimp
1 Sand Sifting Starfish

What i would like to know is how I should go about doing this, so if anyone has any ideas please let me know.

Thanks.
Liam

 

[strout]

How far away is your new place, that might factor in on the advice the pros here will give you.

 

[Dragonet]

10 min drive

 

[FroggyFox]

Oh man...moving a FW tank is a royal pain...I think I would have nightmares moving a SW tank. Yikes. At least it is nice and close.

Do you have some good buckets/water jugs that you can use for transporting? You'll want to take as much of your water with you as you can...and I imagine the fish will be pretty similar to transporting FW fish...put them in a bucket of their tank water that has a pretty good lid because there will be a lot of splashing no matter how carefully you drive. Someone who is better with corals will need to give some suggestions on moving those...

best of luck!!

 

[Dragonet]

Yeah that's what I'm worried about, transporting the corals because I don't want them to get damaged in the bucket or acclimation to then new tank.

 

[TRe]

when i moved i put all my rock in a few coolers with wet towels in them (tank water) as far as the fish/corals i went to the lfs and asked for the bags they use when they sell fish and corals... some of the rocks with corals attached got moved in 5g buckets with water in them HTH!