Transporting my refugium

[sredzins]

I am a college student and will be leaving for summer break in about a week. I need to get my entire system home for a the break. The tank has made the trip before but my refugium has not. How should I go about doing this with out killing all the life in the fuge? Its just a 5 gallon hob

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[46gReef]

How far are you traveling? How do you normally move your tank?

 

[sredzins]

Its a 50 gallon. Its about a 3 hour trip. I am planning on filling 6 5 gallon buckets with water from the tank and live rock. I plan on leaving 10 in the tank with the substrate. I will dump 10 and add a fresh 10 when I get home and treat it as a 20% water change. I've never had to move the refugium but I have read that the refugium isn't a nutrient export but a nutrient "bank". I'm nervous that is the sand bed is stirred up that it will release unwanted chemicals and kill the life in the fuge. Its only a 1 inch bed in the fuge

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[46gReef]

I wouldn't worry too much with only a 1" sand bed, there shouldn't be too much nasty stuff down in there...since it's so small maybe just stabilize it inside a cooler or something and toss in a battery powered air pump just to keep the water oxygenated....

 

[sredzins]

It is true that its not much of a nutrient export but more of a bank? And okay I'll give it a shot

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