Seems like a lot of work to move it outside when you can just cover the entire tank. Had construction goin on in my house and covering it with a towel worked fine. Inhabitants can survive with no light for periods of time.
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Treat the tank like fumigation and it can't be moved.Can you cover the tank? Which may be easier then moving it and better for the tank inhabitants. You can take a tarp and cover it. Just make sure it completely covered and it will keep all the dust out.
I haven’t done a water change on my nano in 4 months lol. I just got rid of green hair last week again. Nothing growing now.Dav
you need to run a specific control approach to keep it 100% safe. you need to do a rip clean which is a detailed, surgical takedown so you can hold the rocks and corals in clean water alone, no sand, and fish with them or in separate covered buckets. dont move your whole reef out, then back in, even if you physically do that you're upwelling waste which will change the invasion status of your tank not long after re set up.
if you want to do a custom rip clean here now we can, the reason is because this puts back only clean sand and rocks when you reassemble your tank, no waste to turn into an algae farm by august.
you need to take apart your reef, clean the sand and rocks a certain way, hold them in totes until job is done then re assemble a clean reef and go put the totes in someones temp controlled house today no fancy inkbird gear needed.
*the reason it all skip cycles back into place at the end of the day/tomorrow whenever is because the surfaces were 100% clean, not full of brown detritus you can see in most non cleaned reefs. when they sit there unmoved the non clean status can go months/years
but sloshing them around changes that stasis. its a major cause of invasion changes in nanos.
you'd think this would be the harsh, unsafe option, and that moving the tank and sloshing all the waste around is better. it's not
your reef, choose the % satisfaction you want to risk lemme know.
You’re way overthinking this and making it a huge big deal for nothing catch the fish put them in a bucket drain the tank down move the tank to where you’re going to put it outside put the water back in it and put your fish back in it or don’t and watch the temperature well it’s outside obviously put it in the shade do not use lights and he will be fine stop stressing and MoveOn alreadyI haven’t done a water change on my nano in 4 months lol. I just got rid of green hair last week again. Nothing growing now.
how would I clean the sand? Wouldn’t I need 4 buckets with 4 different heaters seems like pain. My tank is 2 ft away from outside. It would be fast in and out. Algae I am good at dealing with.
I think it would be easier 2 buckets of water one with fish one with coral. Take the rocks out briefly. Put them back in.
I work from home. So I can check on the heat on my breaks and lunch time. I have 3 buckets one for fish, one for coral, the last for water. I have 2 totes full of Rodi water so I will be fine. They have to remove the tile under the fish tank as well.You’re way overthinking this and making it a huge big deal for nothing catch the fish put them in a bucket drain the tank down move the tank to where you’re going to put it outside put the water back in it and put your fish back in it or don’t and watch the temperature well it’s outside obviously put it in the shade do not use lights and he will be fine stop stressing and MoveOn already
Yes so you have no choice. Just do your best with what you got. I think you got enough information here to successfully do thisI work from home. So I can check on the heat on my breaks and lunch time. I have 3 buckets one for fish, one for coral, the last for water. I have 2 totes full of Rodi water so I will be fine. They have to remove the tile under the fish tank as well.
No vinyl floorsAre you putting tile back in? When I got my place retiled, I couldn't walk on it for a few days let alone set up my tank .....
I don't see a problem with putting the tank outside for a few days either.No vinyl floors
No vinyl floors
Here’s my plan. I added colored zip ties to all my plugs, dosers. So it will be quicker assembly. Wake up at 4:45 am, take the lights off, take out my dosing stuff out, take my auto top off out with the 5 gallon tote. Then unplug my Uv sterilizer. Before all this set up towels. I take out my media and all the equipment next. Drain the water, pull the loose coral out into one bucket. Then pull the rock. Then pull the fish and inverts that may be loose to crush if I put rock back in. Drain more water. Move my tank outside with the stand. Reset up. Some corals grew along the rock no way I can remove it. I think I can be quick with the rock out of the water and back in. Outside 2ft. This is all going down Thursday.I don't see a problem with putting the tank outside for a few days either.
I've been through taking tiles out. It gets really dusty inside. I would do the same thing.
Piece of cake you got this don’t stressHere’s my plan. I added colored zip ties to all my plugs, dosers. So it will be quicker assembly. Wake up at 4:45 am, take the lights off, take out my dosing stuff out, take my auto top off out with the 5 gallon tote. Then unplug my Uv sterilizer. Before all this set up towels. I take out my media and all the equipment next. Drain the water, pull the loose coral out into one bucket. Then pull the rock. Then pull the fish and inverts that may be loose to crush if I put rock back in. Drain more water. Move my tank outside with the stand. Reset up. Some corals grew along the rock no way I can remove it. I think I can be quick with the rock out of the water and back in. Outside 2ft. This is all going down Thursday.
I want to let everyone know thanks for the help everybody survived. If somone did what I did for my size tank freeze 4 water bottles. I used 2 frozen water bottles and they saved the day. I don’t know if my starfish survived because they live in the sand. I think they did.Piece of cake you got this don’t stress