Future Move, But should I start corals?

[Todd L.]

So I have a dilemma (seems thats a large part of the hobby). I am in college and am graduating and moving in 9 months. Currently I have a Fish only system, but last week I ordered an led to start playing with corals. The dilemma is, should I wait till I move to add corals, or add them and then pack them up when the time comes. My thought is that even though my wife is against me getting corals I don't believe I could look at my new well lit tank with no corals in it for 9 months. And it is only a 30g system how hard could it be to move (2 hour drive). This photo is from months ago, the tank is well established now with health amount of algae.

 

[Reeferdood]

If you plan on getting corals I would stick with the hardy ones that will survive a move better. Try to avoid the SPS corals until you plan on keeping it up long term.
My.02

 

[Super Fly]

If you plan on getting corals I would stick with the hardy ones that will survive a move better. Try to avoid the SPS corals until you plan on keeping it up long term.
My.02

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[ZoWhat]

IMO.... a 2hr drive is nothing.

I chat with a lot of vendors that come to Ohio for frag swaps. We have vendors that bring every coral under the Sun that they're selling in from Michigan (5-6hrs traveltime), Illinois (6ish).... and up and down the East Coast from 6 hrs away.

The key is to know what you are doing and plan everything out.

There are 1,000,000,000,000 threads about MOVING posted since May, 3mos ago. Go and read all that stuff.

HTH

 

[Todd L.]

If you plan on getting corals I would stick with the hardy ones that will survive a move better. Try to avoid the SPS corals until you plan on keeping it up long term.
My.02

IMO.... a 2hr drive is nothing.

I chat with a lot of vendors that come to Ohio for frag swaps. We have vendors that bring every coral under the Sun that they're selling in from Michigan (5-6hrs traveltime), Illinois (6ish).... and up and down the East Coast from 6 hrs away.

The key is to know what you are doing and plan everything out.

There are 1,000,000,000,000 threads about MOVING posted since May, 3mos ago. Go and read all that stuff.

HTH

When I get corals I would definitely do softies or anything that is beginner level. I stopped by a not so local lfs yesterday and they were very helpful and had great selections (Fish R us, in conroe TX).
And to address the move, it is a short drive but I feel once we arrive the coral wouldn't be first priority, so I will need to read up on best packaging options.