Transporting coral long distance

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reefjedi82

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Ok so I am packed and last thing is moving corals all are softies with exception to maybe two or three small Lps and one small sps monti they will have a 14 hour drive and wondering if a cooler with heater/air pump and small circ fan will Be good enough any thoughts was planning just to bag the fish and keep closed until arrival does everybody think this is a good enough solution I have a cycled tank at my destination already
 
I think u should b fine, I would do a ratio of 70% old water and 30% fresh mix ...in the cooler with the coral and in the bag fish. Make sure u get enough air in the bags ...maybe get big bags
 
Pack them well and keep temp stable and you should be fine. Make sure you don't rush acclamation once you get there. GL
 
Yes, keep temp stable and make sure to properly acclimate on-arrival. We have coral / fish shipping to us (InsaneCoral) from all over the world and it sometimes is bagged for 24+ hours. We also obviously ship all over the US and coral is packed for 12-16hrs with very minimal losses. I think stable temp is one of the biggest things.
 
We travel long distances to get to frag swaps and the best to do is bag all your coral and set them in a cooler they will be fine once you get them set back up into a tank. ( That's if you are doing it same day). We just did a 12 1/2hr ride to South Carolina for a Frag Swap and everything arrived in great shape.
 
Apologies on not responding I have been so busy so I have an interesting issue my sps is good my Lps is good but my zoas are almost flaking I am very concerned with this I have never seen this before it's almost like they are melting all parameters are good calcium is a bit low 350 any ideas using a corallife purflo 4stage filter
 
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