How to transfer old to new

Sorry to all. This is my third post in a week in the ASAP column. Your attention is appreciated though. It turns out my two attempts at siliconing have failed. Not utterly, just mostly. So I am making one more attempt within the hour here. If it holds great, if it doesn't....off to Petco.

That brings me to my question. If I have to do this, I am going to transfer all rock into a garbage can with water from the system. No heater. Corals and fish will go into another 30g garbage can with a Korilia and a heater. The remaining water will go into buckets.

Now. Sand. That is my biggest worry. I have nooooooo idea what is living in my sand, but I imagine stirring it up is not going to be good. As The Clash put it oh so many years ago, "Should I stay or should I go?". Do I get rid of it. Do I wash it? Do I put it into a bucket(s) and just transfer it?

Any help will be appreciated. I will know by end of day.

TIA.......Rock on.......and Peace.......John.

 

i would just reuse it, don't wash it, just transfer, your tank may be cloudy for a little while but it should clear up, id throw a hang on the tank filter on to help clear it, but see what others think, i just moved my 75 gallon a couple of weeks ago

 

ive done a few tank moves in my day and i find it best to transfer sand and rock first, wait a few days or so for things to adjust/clear up, then slowly add the fishies...ive done it this way a few times and had good results. i would keep your sand, no reason to throw it out.

 

Ditto! Changing might send it into a small cycle, since you're stirring everything up, but it should all be fine. When I did mine, from 55 to 135, I put the rock and sand in with the old and new water and waited for a week or two and then put the critters in, and viola, new home for the critters!

 

I had a leak in my tank last fall after setting it up and had to put all my stuff in tubs as well. I talked to leroy at garf on how to keep all my stuff sand rocks ect. alive wile fixing my tank ( a few days) and his thought was to keep water movement going in the containers with the sand/gravel and rocks as far as fixing a tank leak i always found there is no short cuts i drain my tank cut all the old silicon out and reseal all of it. just trying to fix where the leak was has never worked for me.

 

not to get off the subject, but Homegrown, is your tank really live?????? thats awsome, how do you do that?

 

yes it is i use ylive program and my laptop i have a post under i made this showing how i do it. ;D


http://www.3reef.com/forums/i-made/how-i-do-live-tank-shot-50281.html

 

when i transfered tanks i used a thin plastic place mat to slide under the sand and take it out in pie slices , and placing them in the new tank basically undisturbed. of course you have to drain the water out first . i switched tanks with live stock and all in like 5 hours and had the new tank filled with everything in it. fish, corals... , did constant water tests and never even noticed a slight spike in parims, just my lucky day proly.