Moving from San Diego to Phoenix

Yes, haven't been in a while but I have been going there since they first opened. Yea Will always has a good selection of corals. And they're good people too.

 

Yes, Yes go to aqua sd and look at my Solona tank for sale! go for it and pick it up!! haha. i live in SD too!

 

For sure those places will help you out.... I bet. But if you want some Kordon bags tossed your way, just let me know. This is a link to their blurb. www.kordon.com

I won't be able to use them with my current selection of fish.

 

This is very nice of Renee. Since my first comment I have never strayed away from thinking bags are the way to go. Personally don't agree with the bucket transport and thats just my opinion. I would definitely get in touch with Renee, LFL isn't too far. Like Robman said "that is the way they get to us".

 

I really appreciate the offer but I talked to my LFS yesterday and they said that if I swing by before my drive, they'd fill the bags with O2 for me. Really, thank you though, never knew how nice people could be on these forums.

 

What part of town are you moving to? I have 50 gallons of fresh RO/DI on hand at all times and could help you out getting it set back up again once you get here if its close and the timing works out. If not I have reef friends all over the valley who can and would do the same for you.

I have helped with numerous moves over the years and found good ice chests or coolers work well for moving if you have the room. I keep 3 or 4 battery air pumps in my spares closet for these moves and have used or loaned them several times. A few attempted to save most of the water and it ends up being a real pain or disaster since is sloshes all over everything.

 

I am moving to the south Scottsdale area. I have a truck and a trailer, so I was planning on just putting the buckets of water in the back. Hopefully spillage won't be that big of an problem. I have a RO/DI unit so water shouldn't be an issue.

If I bag the fish, do I have to worry about them getting too cold? I will have them in the car with me, so I'm figuring that as long as I keep the temp fine in the car, the fish will be fine as well.

 

One and a half more questions:

If I choose to bag everything individually, will the bags pop due to climbing elevation? I just drove over there this week to finalize some things and there is a pretty steep climb right out of SD (from about 0 ft to 4000 ft in about a half hour or less)

Should I just bag them loosely?

 

They'll be fine.

 

If you think about it, when our fish are shipped they overnight or 2 day and that means air shipment. Most commercial flights have cabin pressure of 8,000ft. I don't know about shipments and if they keep those compartments pressurized to 8k or if they get to a 30,000ft pressure or not.
Point in trying to make is I think the 4,000ft will be just fine in the bags.