Transporting live rock with encrusted corals / zoos
- Thread starter thomb
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What I did:
I went to HD, bought 6 buckets, and filled them 1/4 with new water. Then I went to a guys house and picked up 150lbs of live rock with some corals on it. I borrowed some of his water to get the bucket to be 3/4 full, and made sure the corals were under the water.
I the tied all the buckets in my trunck so they wouldn't fall and drove home (1.5 hours with trafic on a hot summer day).
I mixed some of my old water because I didn't know if he would be able to fill 6 5gal buckets.
The rocks came with 50 snails, two brittle stars and covered in copepods. Everything lived.
I went to HD, bought 6 buckets, and filled them 1/4 with new water. Then I went to a guys house and picked up 150lbs of live rock with some corals on it. I borrowed some of his water to get the bucket to be 3/4 full, and made sure the corals were under the water.
I the tied all the buckets in my trunck so they wouldn't fall and drove home (1.5 hours with trafic on a hot summer day).
I mixed some of my old water because I didn't know if he would be able to fill 6 5gal buckets.
The rocks came with 50 snails, two brittle stars and covered in copepods. Everything lived.
I just had to move my tank and I ended up putting each rock in their own 5g bucket. One rock had a decent sized monti encrusted on the top, another a toadstool I didn't want to remove and another a softball sized frogspawn.
It was about a 30min drive with the buckets in a bed of a pickup truck and everything arrived perfectly fine. For the rock with a monti I ended up using a couple pieces of egg crate and a smaller rock to help stabilize it. I also tried to fill the buckets to the top with water in an attempt to prevent them from sloshing around too much while driving.
Best of luck!
It was about a 30min drive with the buckets in a bed of a pickup truck and everything arrived perfectly fine. For the rock with a monti I ended up using a couple pieces of egg crate and a smaller rock to help stabilize it. I also tried to fill the buckets to the top with water in an attempt to prevent them from sloshing around too much while driving.
Best of luck!
dannyp02908
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as the others have stated, full buckets of water to minimize sloshing and try to keep the rocks from slamming in to eachother. Last move I was involved in, we used Styrofoam coolers. Boston to Providence, dead of winter.
Edit to say that the more water you have in a bucket or cooler, the harder it is to change the temp of said water.
Edit to say that the more water you have in a bucket or cooler, the harder it is to change the temp of said water.
