buckets= expensive

I dont think he needs the cointainers for the water guys, he needs it to store his live rock stock as well.

furthermore, trash cans arent cheap. $9 may gt you a flimsy 9 gallon trash can. any rubbermad trash cans bigger than that are going to be atleast $20 and up. and $62 for 22 buckets is more than he was guesstimating in the first place. Plus thats waaay to many buckets.

You may able to find some used drums for sale, if not your going to be paying the $50 you where trying to avoid.

 

Where are you buying them? 55 g Trash cans arent that cheap. Hell 9 gallon ones are $18 and up

 

If you're looking at garbage bins, you want to get the "food grade" ones, they don't have (I forget the chemical) in them, and are usually considered reef safe.

 

Well i was presuming that but maybe not...Your not planning on taking all your water with you right? When I moved mine a kept less than %20

 

What is your total water volume? probably less than 110 gallons. Why cant you just take a 30 or 40 gallons of your old water and replace the rest with new?

 

A 100 gallon container would be the minimum size you would need, IME. I have helped people move a number of times. You need to have new water up to temp at the new place a day ahead of time. Moving old tank water is useless. Too heavy, and why do you want to save dirty water? Bacteria resides on solid surfaces, not primarily in the water column. Individual small containers/buckets is a disaster waiting to happen. How are you going to keep them all up to temperature? Buy a heater for each one?

 

Yup, it looks like you might just have to buy enough buckets to store your LR and livestock, fill up the tank with mostly new water, bring it up to the proper temp and salinity, then add sand, then LR and then livestock. This might all take a day or two so make sure your livestock is happy in its temporary home.

 

I still dont get why u need so much... I can fit all the contents of my 55in an 18g rubbermaid u should be fine with 1 55 g.

 

He has a fully stocked 120G. That is a lot of rock.

 

Well, you could just take shortcuts and don't have new water up to temp ahead of time, reuse the sand, and do it all in one day. I recently helped someone move a 180 (who I won't mention) who did this. Nearly all of his fish and corals died from a well established tank. It doesn't all happen right away, either, so you get to watch it happen over a few days. NO FUN! lol.