I Have A Headache Just Thinking About This Move And Need Advice

[College_Reefer]

Hey Reef2Reef I need some advice! I have moved my IM 20 about 4 times between Florida and Pennsylvania, hopped between dorm rooms in college every year and apartments every 12 months the last few years with an extremely high success rate. Since moving into (what we thought was) a permanent housing situation last year, I got my dream tank, the IM 100 EXT. However, now I have a conundrum. We live in Florida and my girlfriend met with a company up in PA and got offered an amazing, truly once in a lifetime job opportunity so we are moving back to my home state. Leaving or selling this tank is not an option for me as it was a huge milestone and something I promised myself I'd do since starting the hobby, so it has to come with me. Now to the question... how the h@!! would you guys go about moving the thing roughly 1,100 miles?

 

[Gumbies R Us]

I'll link you this thread, has some good information!

 

[JustAnotherNanoTank]

Lots of friends.

And beer.

 

[GARRIGA]

Simplest answer. Sell the live stock or trade in for supplies. Move the tank. Keep the rocks. Pack them as if wet shipping. Google that or ask a LFS. Start from scratch. Now you can correct that learned along the way or modify the landscape.

Rocks more likely to survive the journey with least effort and to me the rock being the most valuable component. No sense stressing other life that may perish along the way.

No way to predict what hurdles or delays await. Keep it simple for best chance of success.

 

[TheStrangler]

For a two day drive its going to be tough. Uhaul, friends, beer is the solution for physically loading it into a Uhaul or whatever. The glass/counter top moving suction cups make it less of a bear to handle. Rocks are easy enough, they just need to stay wet rather than submerged. Some dieoff may occur, but that's just something to monitor for. The livestock is the trickiest. You can get a battery powered aerator, though the temperature would be trickier to regulate on a long drive. There's a solution somewhere whether it's a good insulated box and traveling with them as if you were shipping them, or something else. If you were willing to give up the livestock and reacquire locally it'd simplify things but I bet you can come up with a plan to make it work, with risks of course.