Moving to new home - Advice

I would just put the corals and fish in separate buckets. Then you don't have to worry about protecting the fish.

 

You CAN move the sand in buckets, but, be prepared to wait it out a little bit if you do start a cycle. Dont go to the house thinking your gonna dump everything back in and be all dandy.

If anything, get your tank setup, put the sand in, fill until your an inch or so with water above the sand, make the sand kind of like a sloping hill to one corner, siphon out water, rinse and repeat a few times with clean salt water. This should take out a lot of the floating nasty stuff. May not keep a cycle from happening, but, should minimize it a bit.

Thats about the best you can do, and, if you have those long 30 gallon tubs I mentioned, things can stay in there a while till the cycle ends, if there is one.

 

I don't know, for 50 bucks worth of sand is it wort it?

 

If you are going tp take the sand out of the tank, don't reuse it. Just buy some new dry sand and rinse it out really good. Your live rock will seed the new sand for you.
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Depends. How old is the tank? I missed that if it was mentioned. How much spare $$ you have to throw, or want to throw around? Rinse it real good and its probably no different than store bought sand. Either one is gonna throw a small cycle because they will both have raw stuff in it that will cause cycle.

Option:

1) Keep the sand in the bucket with salt water, rinse with new salt water and drain tank a few times, let settle keep fingers crossed

2) Rinse old sand real good throw in tank, keep fingers crossed

3) Use new sand and let organics cycle, keep fingers crossed


Its really a toss up on that one and no definites.

I like 1 as it has good bacteria also.

Maybe you can skim the top 1" layer into one bucket and the rest in another. Then put it in the tank in reverse so the good bacteria doesnt get smothered??

 

This sounds the easiest to me, guess ill just monitor it like crazy for a cycle. Think I should buy some of those products that skip the cycling phase?

 

When do you plan on moving? Sure would like to know what way you went and how it turned out. I'm not going as far but I see for me about 1-1.5 hrs. to take mine down then 7-9 hrs. for carpet then at least 1.5-2 hrs. to put back up. Wow sure sounds like a long day

 

I moved 4 times in 5 years..... 13 tanks each time. It never gets easier. You always learn something new by doing something wrong.

You can never have enough buckets, RO/DI or saltwater, airpumps, tubing, tubing valves and Ts, rigid tubing and things to secure them with and heaters if it's cold where you are.

We always take the water down to the sand and away we go. Fill er back up with fresh saltwater and plop the fish back in the next day.

The lesson this time was to not put things with stings into a black bucket.

Those kordon bags are not new. I used them to ship shrimp in them in 2002. These are the only bags I ever had pop on me, but those were all overnight flights. You should not double bag or they will not be able to breath. You have to be careful how you position the bag in the box. If there's newspaper or anything laying tightly around it, the bag will not breath as well. If they are in a styro with a fitted lid, there's not going to be that much oxygen available to them anyways. Even in a tapped cardboard box, the airflow won't be great.

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Thanks again everyone for your input, my move went very smooth with no spill! Thanks again!!!