So I found myself my first place to rent! Very excited however I have one major fear, moving my tank. It’s on the ground floor and the loading zone is right outside our patio which will help out for sure. The tank is 4ft long by 2ft wide and 16” tall total volume with sump is 100G. This is my plan to do it but need extra help and advice please!
Get about 3 garbage cans mixed and heated about 70-80 gallons in the apartment before I begin. The drive is only about 10 minutes so not too far.
Come back to my tank and start draining some water, once I get quite a few full I will start to take the fish out. Planning on putting my foxface and tang together in one, my clowns and hawkfish and royal gramma in one, then all my wrasses in the last bucket. Then get buckets for all my rock, still not sure what to do with my coral maybe put them all in baggies? drain the rest of the tank, shoot out the sand, dissemble the piping and all equipment and bring it all over to the new place. Quickly get the new sand in and begin filling, once it gets high enough put the rocks in, then coral and finally fish last.
Does this seem like the best way possible? I want to try and make this as easy as possible for the fish and myself as well as keeping the tank in one piece. Any help is greatly appreciated as I’m super nervous for this!
Get about 3 garbage cans mixed and heated about 70-80 gallons in the apartment before I begin. The drive is only about 10 minutes so not too far.
Come back to my tank and start draining some water, once I get quite a few full I will start to take the fish out. Planning on putting my foxface and tang together in one, my clowns and hawkfish and royal gramma in one, then all my wrasses in the last bucket. Then get buckets for all my rock, still not sure what to do with my coral maybe put them all in baggies? drain the rest of the tank, shoot out the sand, dissemble the piping and all equipment and bring it all over to the new place. Quickly get the new sand in and begin filling, once it gets high enough put the rocks in, then coral and finally fish last.
Does this seem like the best way possible? I want to try and make this as easy as possible for the fish and myself as well as keeping the tank in one piece. Any help is greatly appreciated as I’m super nervous for this!