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08-26-2008, 01:31 AM
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| Super Fish Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Corpus Christi, Texas
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|  JOURNAL: Moving 1200 miles Ok figured I would make a journal of my Move from colorado springs to Corpus Christi. Heres where I stand so far. Any input will be appreciated. Hopefully others can learn from success or failure. Purchased 5 gallon buckets for gravel, purchased 20qt sterilte containers for fish. I have 1 container for each Oscar, pleco, and green sunfish, the blue paradise fish, bumblebee catfish a small pleco are all going into 1 container. I went with the smaller ones to hopefully prevent sloshing. I think I can fit these containers behind the seat of my truck (extended cab). I plan on draining the tanks Wednesday afternoon, which means the fish will be transferred to these container that same day. That means they will be living in these for 3 days. Will be adding an 80/20 mix of fresh water to tank water and will add AMMOLOC. I will have a small container I keep the filter media in to hopefully keep the bacteria alive. Also planning on running airstones in each container.
__________________  http://www.nanfa.org/ 90G 1 Oscars, 1 pleco, 2 striped raphael catfish 24G 1pr convicts breeding fry for feeders, 1 blue paradise, 1 pleco, 2 bumblebee catfish 30G tall 1pr Convicts..breeding fry for feeders 10G NATIVE soon to have a pr of blackstripe topwater minnows, pr of rainbow darters 10G NATIVE soon to have trio of pygmy banded sunfish 90G setting up for NA Native flora and fauna |
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08-27-2008, 12:07 AM
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| Little Fish  Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: So. Cal. USA
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| Please post your journal. I am very interested to know how things go as I can see myself making a move like that someday.
__________________ The name is Joe. 100 gallon 4 Bluegill 2 Crawfish 40 gallon 2 Bluegill 1 Crawfish 1 Catfish 20 Gallon 5 Sculpin 1 very small Bluegill 10 Gallon 3 Goldfish, 1 Betta Member NANFA |
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08-27-2008, 12:09 AM
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| Super Fish Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Corpus Christi, Texas
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| Dont worry I will keep as many notes from my trip and hopefully have it posted friday night.
__________________ http://www.nanfa.org/ 90G 1 Oscars, 1 pleco, 2 striped raphael catfish 24G 1pr convicts breeding fry for feeders, 1 blue paradise, 1 pleco, 2 bumblebee catfish 30G tall 1pr Convicts..breeding fry for feeders 10G NATIVE soon to have a pr of blackstripe topwater minnows, pr of rainbow darters 10G NATIVE soon to have trio of pygmy banded sunfish 90G setting up for NA Native flora and fauna |
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08-27-2008, 09:52 AM
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| Medium Fish  Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Cincinnati
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| I didn't realize you were moving already! I guess you don't have time to talk her into Cincinnati. Let me know your address and we will have some skyline and grippos waiting for you!
__________________ Trying to breed GBR (standard and high fin), Discus, Angels, and currently breeding 6 types of guppies, 5 types of swords, 2 types of mollies, and RCS.  |
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08-27-2008, 12:49 PM
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| Super Fish Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Corpus Christi, Texas
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Yea she said cincy is a NO, she said I could go there if I wanted a divorce..lol..hhhmmmm...sometimes not a bad option.
__________________ http://www.nanfa.org/ 90G 1 Oscars, 1 pleco, 2 striped raphael catfish 24G 1pr convicts breeding fry for feeders, 1 blue paradise, 1 pleco, 2 bumblebee catfish 30G tall 1pr Convicts..breeding fry for feeders 10G NATIVE soon to have a pr of blackstripe topwater minnows, pr of rainbow darters 10G NATIVE soon to have trio of pygmy banded sunfish 90G setting up for NA Native flora and fauna | |
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08-27-2008, 05:31 PM
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| Super Fish Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Corpus Christi, Texas
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| I will be leaving tomorrow morning..getting up early to tear down tanks. I was going to do it tonight but I dont want the fish to spend more time than needed in the smaller containers. So the plan is still mixing fresh and tank water, treat with prime, add filter media to the containers. box up filters and heaters. drain tanks. Put fish in 20qt containers. Put in truck..haul ass  Also going to take a small cooler of ice incase container temps get to high I can throw some ice in the water in small amounts to bring the temps down slowly.Any advice or thoughts from you guys before I start this process.
__________________ http://www.nanfa.org/ 90G 1 Oscars, 1 pleco, 2 striped raphael catfish 24G 1pr convicts breeding fry for feeders, 1 blue paradise, 1 pleco, 2 bumblebee catfish 30G tall 1pr Convicts..breeding fry for feeders 10G NATIVE soon to have a pr of blackstripe topwater minnows, pr of rainbow darters 10G NATIVE soon to have trio of pygmy banded sunfish 90G setting up for NA Native flora and fauna |
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08-27-2008, 06:01 PM
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| Medium Fish Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: 34:09:39N, 118:08:19W
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| Wow! I didn't realize that you're making this move. Texas isn't for all people, but I definitely enjoyed living there. Then again, I also enjoyed living in Colorado!  Quote:
Never having done anything like this, I can't really give specific advice. I will be following along; I'm sure you'll post about experiences useful even for a move of only 5 miles! But, having driven between Texas and Colorado plenty of times, I can say this: if you plan on going the route that I'd recommend (I-25 south to US Highway 87 south to US Highway 287 south to I-35 south to I-37 south) watch out for the speed traps all along US 287, particularly in and around the town of Wichita Falls, Texas!
__________________ 2.5G QT planted - wag lyretail swordtail (f) 10G planted - GBR (m), 7 gold pristella tetras, 2 peppered cories, fancy guppy (m) 29G planted - 3 pineapple swordtails (f), 9 rummynose tetra, 3 emerald catfish, ~12 swordtail fry, 2 (?) ghost shrimp, 4 otocinclus Go Rice Owls!!! It's time to ride. --- Shawn | |
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08-27-2008, 06:36 PM
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| MFT Staff  Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Columbia, SC
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| Hopefully you can get there and kind of settled in before Tropical Storm Gustav gets there. Quite a change in climate your heading for haha. Sounds like a plan to me, good luck. Btw, you listing the miles in the topic reminded me of this. YouTube - The Proclaimers 500 Miles
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08-27-2008, 07:30 PM
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| Super Fish Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Corpus Christi, Texas
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