It's been a while!

[WhompingWillow]

I’m going to have to move pretty soon, hopefully at the end of this semester. I’m expecting to have to move pretty far away which has me concerned. The move up here was around 4 hours and that was difficult, I can only imagine moving cross country with all my pets (7 atm). Do you have any tips as far as moving animals or moving in general? How did you keep your enclosures safe from damage? How did you fit everything in a moving van and not damage anything? When I moved up here my stuff BARELY fit and I’ve acquired more crap since then lol Also, I’ll have to tow my car with me which should be a blast. Someone should make a moving with reptiles thread on here.


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We were lucky in that we had a full service move, so the moving company dealt with packing up the enclosures and all the fixtures, decorations, etc. (Although evidently the person who did the survey of our belongings for the move did NOT tell the moving company about all of our reptiles and enclosures. They were understandably upset.) Most of the (empty) aquariums were packed in "dish pack" boxes. The 40 gallon tank was custom crated.

As for the actual snakes, we packed them individually in snake bags and then divided those among styrofoam catering boxes with holes punched in them, Chef's Caddy brand. We used 4 in total. The tortoise, bearded dragon, and gecko were placed in shoebox plastic containers. We were fortunate that the weather cooperated so that we didn't need to use heat packs, but we had a few on hand just in case. There was a several day delay between when we had to pack up the animals and when our moving truck arrived, so the reptiles had to hang out in their traveling digs in a small room with a space heater.

Cats were placed in two separate dog crates with a litter box in each. Dogs were mostly well-behaved lol. My husband packed everybody into our minivan and it was pretty tight. He drove straight through.

The biggest thing I can say to help is just advance planning and planning for everything that could potentially go wrong.