Aquarium Relocation Services
A saltwater aquarium is a fragile artificial ecosystem that brings the coral reef’s beauty into your home or office. The installation, design, and maintenance of a reef tank are a considerable investment, but what happens when you need to relocate your aquarium? How do you make sure that the move goes smoothly for your aquarium and its inhabitants?
Professional aquarium relocation services are the perfect answer for people who want peace of mind when moving their saltwater tank. The highly-trained technicians of Blue Earth Aquariums & Corals all have at least five years of professional experience and operate with full expertise in aquarium installation, maintenance, and relocation.
How to Relocate an Aquarium
Relocating a saltwater aquarium is a complex, intensive enterprise that, if not done precisely right, may cause damage to your valuable tank, its equipment, and the marine life it houses. Read on to see what we take into consideration during aquarium relocation.
When preparing for an aquarium move, we keep these three components in mind:
- Living creatures
- Equipment and decorative elements
- Tank and stand
Relocating Aquarium Livestock
We take the utmost care in relocating the livestock of your aquarium.
To make catching your fish easier, we remove the rest of the aquarium contents, including most of the water, first. After we’ve caught them, we put them in containers with airstones to provide oxygen during the transportation
Corals are handled delicately and separated as well as possible to avoid stinging each other on the move.
While you don’t see the bacteria in your aquarium, they play an essential part in its ecosystem. Any upheavals that drastically change bacteria population may be lethal to your aquarium’s larger inhabitants.
The beneficial saltwater bacteria function as a wastewater treatment plant, breaking down waste produced by all living creatures. We preserve your bacterial balance by keeping live rock in damp, cool conditions during the move, replace old sanded with new sand full of live bacteria, and adding a biological filter supplement after the aquarium is re-installed.
Moving Aquarium Equipment
Some aquarium equipment, like glass tube heaters, is highly fragile, so we make sure we are careful when packing it. We carefully remove equipment and keep it safe during transport.
Moving the Tank
If you have invested in a high-end aquarium like one of the Red Sea tank models, you would hate to have it damaged during a move. Any move poses a serious risk to a tank – which is where a professional aquarium moving service comes into the picture, making the job easier for you and ensuring your precious aquarium reaches its new location unscathed.
Before relocation, an aquarium tank needs to be empty, debris-free, and clean. Any remaining sand, salt, or grit may damage the glass and impair its transparency.
Re-installing the Aquarium
Successful aquarium relocation is measured by how well the saltwater tank does when re-installed and re-stocked in its new place. After the move, the aquarium will be aquascaped from the bottom up, and refilled. The tank will be replumbed.
All vital aquarium equipment, such as the heater and the pumps, needs to be checked to ensure it’s still in working order. Then the livestock can be re-introduced with careful monitoring.
Are you considering a professional aquarium relocation service? The experienced technicians of Blue Earth Aquariums & Corals will work on relocating your aquarium with the utmost care to the tank, equipment, and living creatures. Our goal is to give you a smooth, stress-free experience of packing, moving, and re-installing your aquarium so that you can continue enjoying your piece of living ocean at your new location.
We work in Palm Beach, FL, and around Palm Beach County. Call or email us today to get a best-value aquarium relocation offer.