Moving to VA from TX!

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jb1edlover

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Ladies and Gentlemen from the CCA, I'd like to introduce myself... My name is JB Edmundson (jb1edlover) I'll be moving to Virginia later this year. My wife is active duty Air Force and Uncle Sam said we've been in San Antonio TX too long (10yrs). I've been very active in the local club here (HCCC or Hill Country Cichlid Club) over the last 4 years. Sadly the hardest part of moving is leaving behind such a wonderful cichlid club that is very active in the hobby. I've been in touch with one of your members "cichlidiot" via our website and he referred me to this site. I've been browsing this site and I think it will be a fun club to get involved with.
I currently keep 75 fish tanks ranging in size from 240 gallons down to my fry growout tanks of 10 gallons. I have about 20 species of Victorian cichlids and a couple of Mbuna and 2 colonies of Frontosas. I want to keep as much of this as possible when I move however it will depend on logistics of our new home in Virginia. Luckily in my current home I have total usage of the 2-car garage that I've converted to a mini-fish store. So we will see. Anyway I will be lurking from time to time and checking out your club and I hope to get a chance to meet you guys/gals very soon.
Take Care and thanks,
JB
 
maddog10

maddog10

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Welcome JB!

What is going on in TX, seems quite a few people have been moving from there to here. Government must be doing base consolidation or some such thing. Anyway, Texas's loss is our gain!
 
kaj41354

kaj41354

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Welcome JB,

Glad to have you on the forum and hope to see you soon. My wife is retired Air Force (24 years). Where will your wife be based up here?
 
lonlangione

lonlangione

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Welcome to the forum JB. Good luck with the move. I have often said I would rather take a good beating than move. And there are some people that probably wouldn't mind giving it a try. HAHAHA Looking forward to meeting you as soon as you get settled.

Lonny
 
F8LBITE

F8LBITE

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welcome to the forum bud! We are some fishaholics up here so it sounds like you'll fit right in. Id love to see some pics of your mini fish store. Also, how do you plan on moving so many tanks up here and keeping all the fish?
 
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jb1edlover

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move

We're moving to Langley AFB, Norfolk/Virginia Beach area. The move will be the first since the fish hobby began. We're doing 2 seperate moves, first move will be all our household goods and everything else minus the fish hobby stuff. When we get to Virginia I'll set the house up and get the human things ready and rocking. Then I'll fly back to TX and drain all the tanks (bagging the fish as I go) I plan to bag all the adult breeding colonies and then I'll bag 1 or 2 generations of fry. I will keep 1 generation of fry of each species at RareDaves (a wonderful LFS here in San Antonio) as a back up. Once all the fish are bagged (we'll use medical grade oxygen) I will take the tanks off the racks and put the racks on the U-haul. I will then put the tanks back on the racks and secure them with rope and wood. Once everything to include a few pallets of holey rock and my fish are loaded in the U-haul my brother and I are going to head to virginia non-stop tandem driving. We will arrive in Virginia and unload the tanks and racks set them up and get them filled with water and float the fish etc... and fingers crossed, keep the losses at a minimum. I figure the fish will be in the bags 2 days max, 3 in a worse case scenario and I know some shipping stories of fish in bags much longer than that. My biggest fear is the water in Virginia (I know coastal water always tastes funny)...... In San Antonio our water is around 8.0ph out of the tap, due to the edwards aquifer being filtered through a ga-zillion tons of Limestone. I have a few thousand pounds of limestone/Holey rock I'm bringing to help with the PH... so thats my biggest concern having never used added chemicals except Prime. Anyway I'll be taking advice from everyone and this could all change. Rare Dave offered to ship all the fish for me at cost... but I figure that they would be in the bags roughly the same amount of time... so why take em with me...
JB
 
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jb1edlover

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4 hours drive?.... I laugh at that. In TX we drive 4 hours to get Groceries :) not to mention you have to drive 15 hours to get out of TX... Nah, really I drive to Houston several times a year for auctions and thats almost 4 hours and it a little further to get to Dallas/Ft. Worth. I guess its not much of a drive to find a good group of cichlid friends!!
 
Cichlidiot

Cichlidiot

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I don't envy that move at all. When I moved up here it took me 24 hours of straight driving. I think I still have a kink in my back from driving so long.
 
mscichlid

mscichlid

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Wow, what an undertaking! I would have sold the tanks and bought new while setting up the house. Then I would fly back with my fish.

My next concern then would be cycling the tanks. If you are driving I would put cycled sponges in buckets with an air pumps.

Good luck which ever way you do it!
 
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jb1edlover

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pictures

well I'll try to upload a few pictures of my fish room and some cool fish..

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This is my breeding lab... I put out alot of fry. Hopefully I can get some of these fish going on the East Coast.
 
Artee

Artee

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fish room

Very nice, organized and well laid out.

Di you say you have 2 colonies of fronts?, another front lover......:D

I have 2 colonies of wild caught mobas.
 
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