Learned my lesson

[EpicWin]

So I just moved to San Antonio from Colorado. I decided to make the attempt to move all of my coral with me. I thought I had it all planned very well. I had 2 rubbermaids with pumps that ran in my car. I did this by buying one of the cigarette lighter converters that turns the cigarette lighter into ac plugins. I individually wrapped each coral in a sandwich ziplock that I had punched holes in and placed them in the filled Rubbermaid. I added my fish and off we went on a 17 hour death march (car ride). I had a small fortune in incredible corals and fortunately I have a good number of them backed up with friends in Colorado. However I lost almost everything I brought down. In hindsight my first mistake was punching holes in the ziplocks. It allowed for a chain reaction as more and more corals and fish died. The water was really nasty by hour 9 and by 17 I was shocked anything was alive. My second mistake was putting the fish with the corals at all. And my third mistake was running pumps instead if bubblers. Had I done those 3 things differently I think I would have lost 25% rather than 75%. I just wanted to share my 2 cents incase it can help someone else that is moving. Also sorry if there are typos I wrote this with my phone.

[alton]

Thanks for posting, others will learn from your mistakes. I know it is tough to lose your prize possessions.

[BSJF]

When we moved to SA from Utah, I fedex'd my corals/fish to myself. Great concept, but I did lose all of my large SPS colonies from trying to be too careful in packing them. I put bags inside the bags, and I think it just irritated and/or suffocated them. All the frags I threw in without much thought survived fine. I was so worried about my bluespot and picasso clown pairs, but they did wonderful. This approach can get costly, but I was able to get my company's discount rate.

I was fortunate enough to be able to set up my tank here in advance, which helped a lot. We did travel with the larger rocks that had various zoas on them. Just put them in a cooler with some SW/newspaper. I packed a bit of spare saltwater just in case I needed it. That approach worked fine for them.

I have another move ahead of me and I'm really glad it is only 29 gallons of stuff this time around.

[ZeroHour]

Where in colorado I used to be a part of SCMAS

Had I known someone was coming I could have briefed ya on it.

I did it with a yeti style cooler and 2 rubbermaids when I moved.

Yeti was the display lol

plumped into rubbermaid one with a pump running into a make shift 3 stage filter which was plumbed into small rubbermaid number 2 that was packed with 4" of carbon and had burried heaters allowing the carbon to hold the heat. We lost one small frag and a copperband

Then a month after reset my entire tank crashed and I took a year and a half break and sold it all only to rebuy **** near everything and start over for twice as much

[EpicWin]

Hey! Yeah I was on masc. lived in Broomfield. My move went terribly on my tank. I lost a ton! Had alot backed up with peeps in Colorado though. :-)