Moving tank

[Dhar]

I am moving and I need some advice on moving my 100 gallon aquarium. It will take two days to travel to my new home. My plan is to place all of the live rock in an ice chest with a heater and powerhead. I will place my fish etc in a different ice chest with a heater and powerhead. My question is will my sand be OK for two days during the travel? Will I need to rinse it due to die off?
Any ideas or suggestions please.

 

[brandon429]

If you want the safest mode of all, rinse the sand in tap water until it’s clear. Final rinse in ro

then relocate it all

*rinse again before use as transport will friction some back into silt. The more rinsing is safe, the least rinsing mode is unsafest though this seems backwards. You don’t need any of the bacteria in the sand, the live rock is always enough. It’s more important to rid the waste than it is to keep the bacteria. Dont even use one handful of the old unrinsed sand, it’s a total rinse job if you want the safest method currently known in huge work threads.

 

[brandon429]

Also

its important to re ramp your lights, no full power lights upon new setup take a week to ramp up. Bleach prevention trick, from the work threads and from Neil.

 

[vetteguy53081]

I am moving and I need some advice on moving my 100 gallon aquarium. It will take two days to travel to my new home. My plan is to place all of the live rock in an ice chest with a heater and powerhead. I will place my fish etc in a different ice chest with a heater and powerhead. My question is will my sand be OK for two days during the travel? Will I need to rinse it due to die off?
Any ideas or suggestions please.

keep that sand oxygenated and it will survive. I did similar on a long move.
Get yourself a vehicle power inverter where you can run 2 pumps and two powerheads. Place them right in cooler. Airstones move water very well in which powerhead may not be needed

 

[Dhar]

keep that sand oxygenated and it will survive. I did similar on a long move.
Get yourself a vehicle power inverter where you can run 2 pumps and two powerheads. Place them right in cooler. Airstones move water very well in which powerhead may not be needed

I did get a power converter. So I could put the sand and the live rock in the same ice chest with a heater and powerhead. The powerhead has a tube to pull air also to help oxygenate the water. Do you think that would work?

 

[vetteguy53081]

I did get a power converter. So I could put the sand and the live rock in the same ice chest with a heater and powerhead. The powerhead has a tube to pull air also to help oxygenate the water. Do you think that would work?

yes as long as not too much turbulence. The key is to keep bacteria alive

 

[Dhar]

yes as long as not too much turbulence. The key is to keep bacteria alive

The powerhead is a 158 gph, so there should not be a lot of turbulence.

 

[goliwala]

I see lot of expert advise and I'm sure They probably moved a few times successfully. I've moved my tank two times and both times was within few miles. I can tell you that I regretted keeping the same sand. Everyone I talked to said do not use same sand, just go with new.

 

[brandon429]

post 203 = shocked

why aren’t we advising folks to reef without carrying that deadly waste over

" MY WHITE SAND METHOD "

it’s possible for old school setups to sit in place but here’s what he left out if his rocks slide down and create a storm his whole tank dies if a powerhead dislodges his whole tank dies during a power outage a fully eutrophic sandbed / unexported is taking o2 at many times over what a...

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for sure folks have moved reefs and kept old sand. but for the 20% or so that have problems with moving unrinsed sand especially without a tank pic here, we would default to full rinsing it’s not worth the risk.

 

[brandon429]

Lack of bacteria doesn’t factor in tank moves not one iota.

by following rinse mode your new tank is robbed of that horrible waste from the bed. Even if you do move it carefully and don’t upwell, nobody benefits from keeping this liability in the sand. 100% of rinsed sandbed moves turn out fine.

if you buy new sand, it’s rinsed exactly as above so it doesn’t cloud your reef two months.

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[Dhar]

Lack of bacteria doesn’t factor in tank moves not one iota.

by following rinse mode your new tank is robbed of that horrible waste from the bed. Even if you do move it carefully and don’t upwell, nobody benefits from keeping this liability in the sand. 100% of rinsed sandbed moves turn out fine.

if you buy new sand, it’s rinsed exactly as above so it doesn’t cloud your reef two months.

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I am going to replace the sand and not take any chances.

 

[brandon429]

Moving - Transferring 6 year old tank - Help!

So I'm going to be moving about an hour and a half away in around 3 weeks. I currently have a 90G reef that's been running for around 6 years now. I have 6 fish. I don't even want to bother with trying to take down the tank and then move the tank and the inhabitants to the new home, so I'm going...

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that was a big work move right there, they really documented well. used new sand

 

[ZoWhat]

This should keep you busy for awhile

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[Troyer15]

Definitely rinse extremely well or just buy new. Its crazy how much crap can build in a sand bed. I just sold a tank that was only 6 months old and i couldnt believe how dirty the bottom of the sand was.

 

[NeonRabbit221B]

Replacing sand isn't a bad idea. If you tried to move it without a rinse you would nuke you take upon startup.

Battery air pumps are not a bad idea for fish moving as a backup. Having some water made up will be a good plan (20% more than you think you will need). Also have a plan for dealing with ammonia on the 2nd day (prime might be a good idea to have on hand).

 

[Dhar]

Replacing sand isn't a bad idea. If you tried to move it without a rinse you would nuke you take upon startup.

Battery air pumps are not a bad idea for fish moving as a backup. Having some water made up will be a good plan (20% more than you think you will need). Also have a plan for dealing with ammonia on the 2nd day (prime might be a good idea to have on hand).

The pump I have for travel has a air tube to aerate the water. I will have plenty of water when I arrive. I will be doing the same with my live rock (using heater and pump) during travel. I have 70 lbs of live rock from my tank that will go in at new location.
I have a plan I wasn't sure about the sand.

Thanks

 

[Dhar]

Update: All of my fish and corals made it. There were no issues at all. I placed all of my live rock in one ice chest with a heater and pump with aerator. I place all of my fish and corals in another ice chest with heater and pump with aerator. In the fish I did add "AmGuard". I setup the aquarium with new sand.

Thanks everyone for your advice.