A huge sigh of relief.

[SanguinesDream]

No, I had individually bagged the corals and transported them in a huge styrofoam box on my lap. For the transport tank, I had a 10 gallon tank with the fish on the console inbetween the drivers and passenger seat.

The bottom of the tank gave out and cracked lengthwise right down the middle. It should have been supported from the bottom but because it only had a couple of inches of water, we were surprised that the weight was too great but we failed to negotiate the weight of the live sand in combination with the water.

Although we had a spare tank and spare water in the back of the truck, the water was lost so fast, that the fish were left flopping around while I tried to dig them out of the live sand to make the transfer. We used the water covering the liverock in buckets, as it was warm to make the transition.

I lost my damsel fish immediately. The chromis were the next to go. Then my mandarin goby and percula clowns. I know that is may seem like small loses, but I'm a person that has a fish rescue and every little soul is important to me. I bawled for two days.

Please learn from my experiences and have a backup plan to your backup plan. We were unprepared for how fast the water escaped from the broken tank.