Need Help with Moving
Posted: Sat Jul 28, 2007 11:58 am
I need help from my fellow caris keepers.
I will be moving August 11 (Friday), and I need advice on how to move my tanks, shrimp, and fish.
Here's what I have to move:
30 gallon long shrimp tank: about 100 snowball shrimp (shrimplets to adults, some females carrying eggs at the present time), 12 Atyopsis moluccensis, and about 30 dwarf cajun crayfish, 60 or so pounds of Eco-Complete, driftwood with plants (Fissidens and Anubias nana) attached, and several varieties of Cryptocorynes, and equipment to include heater, Eheim 2213, and powerhead.
10 gallon: barebottom tank with hornwort and 10 pencilfish.
5.5 gallon: 4 CRS, driftwood with flame moss attached and a wee bit of Eco-Complete.
2.5 gallon: 2 sparkling gouramis, gravel, driftwood with Java moss and Anubias nana attached.
5 gallon: 1 male Betta splendens, 2 dwarf cajun crayfish, a wee bit of gravel, driftwood with Java fern attached, and hornwort.
What would be the best way to transport all of this? I am moving about a 15-20 minute drive from where I am now. Everything must be first carried down the stairs, and then back up stairs (I am moving from one apartment to another). I have a van, so there is plenty of room for buckets and such. I have 3 Sterilite containers and 3 buckets that I can use, and of course, Kordon breather bags, and I can get bags from the LPS if needed.
My main concern is moving the shrimp and crayfish with minimal loss, and also, not losing my nitrifying bacteria.
Any help is HIGHLY appreciated!
I will be moving August 11 (Friday), and I need advice on how to move my tanks, shrimp, and fish.
Here's what I have to move:
30 gallon long shrimp tank: about 100 snowball shrimp (shrimplets to adults, some females carrying eggs at the present time), 12 Atyopsis moluccensis, and about 30 dwarf cajun crayfish, 60 or so pounds of Eco-Complete, driftwood with plants (Fissidens and Anubias nana) attached, and several varieties of Cryptocorynes, and equipment to include heater, Eheim 2213, and powerhead.
10 gallon: barebottom tank with hornwort and 10 pencilfish.
5.5 gallon: 4 CRS, driftwood with flame moss attached and a wee bit of Eco-Complete.
2.5 gallon: 2 sparkling gouramis, gravel, driftwood with Java moss and Anubias nana attached.
5 gallon: 1 male Betta splendens, 2 dwarf cajun crayfish, a wee bit of gravel, driftwood with Java fern attached, and hornwort.
What would be the best way to transport all of this? I am moving about a 15-20 minute drive from where I am now. Everything must be first carried down the stairs, and then back up stairs (I am moving from one apartment to another). I have a van, so there is plenty of room for buckets and such. I have 3 Sterilite containers and 3 buckets that I can use, and of course, Kordon breather bags, and I can get bags from the LPS if needed.
My main concern is moving the shrimp and crayfish with minimal loss, and also, not losing my nitrifying bacteria.
Any help is HIGHLY appreciated!