Hi, gang:
I'm unexpectedly moving to a new place and I've got to figure out how to get my 60-gallon tank there with me. The extra catch is that it's 1.5 hour drive away. I've invested a lot and I'm attached to my fish, so I don't want to leave it.
Does anyone have any experience with this that they could share?
Some details on the tank (I've got a pic below from when it was first set up):
- Mixed rock/sand bed (one concern is how not to make an uber mess of this)
- Heavily planted (it's really grown in since the pic that's to high-output light and fertz)
- 8 glowlight tetras
- 10 blue tetras
- 8 black phantom tetras
- 1 angel
- 1 (4 inch) pleco
- 2 cories
- 5-10 shrimp
- 1 SAE
When I moved here (only a 10 minute drive away) I bagged the fish using extra-large ziplock and then stood them up in a box. This was also a new tank, so it was already set up and waiting for them.
Now this is my only tank and I'm concerned about the long distance, and the fact that I will have to get the tank set up for them before I can put them in. So we're looking at 2 hours in the bag, if not more. What can/should I do?
And how can I avoid messing up my landscape... or should I just accept that and sift out the sand from the gravel and re-do it when i get there.
Thanks in advance...
-zt.
I'm unexpectedly moving to a new place and I've got to figure out how to get my 60-gallon tank there with me. The extra catch is that it's 1.5 hour drive away. I've invested a lot and I'm attached to my fish, so I don't want to leave it.
Does anyone have any experience with this that they could share?
Some details on the tank (I've got a pic below from when it was first set up):
- Mixed rock/sand bed (one concern is how not to make an uber mess of this)
- Heavily planted (it's really grown in since the pic that's to high-output light and fertz)
- 8 glowlight tetras
- 10 blue tetras
- 8 black phantom tetras
- 1 angel
- 1 (4 inch) pleco
- 2 cories
- 5-10 shrimp
- 1 SAE
When I moved here (only a 10 minute drive away) I bagged the fish using extra-large ziplock and then stood them up in a box. This was also a new tank, so it was already set up and waiting for them.
Now this is my only tank and I'm concerned about the long distance, and the fact that I will have to get the tank set up for them before I can put them in. So we're looking at 2 hours in the bag, if not more. What can/should I do?
And how can I avoid messing up my landscape... or should I just accept that and sift out the sand from the gravel and re-do it when i get there.
Thanks in advance...
-zt.