I'm planning on moving my tank about 40 minutes away from my current place, and I am having trouble ironing out the details.
For one, should I individually bag all my corals? I don't have many colonies- I have a cynarina and an acanthophyllia, but otherwise all my corals should be easily baggable. Another thing I've heard is to get a frag rack for a 5 gallon bucket and transport all the frags that way. Which would be better?
Also, I'm thinking of keeping all my current water as well- I have about a 70 gallon system including the sump, so I was thinking of getting something like this:
https://www.lowes.com/pd/CRAFTSMAN-...acrfBC3pJSVGZ8mNA7hoC4BIQAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds
I'd put the rock and water in these, with the 2 fish I have and all the corals bagged (unless you guys like the bucket route). Then I'd set up the tank with all the water and float the bags, install the heaters, and then re acclamate everything. I'd keep the sand with less than an inch of water over it- I'll do a water change for the 2 days before the move and siphon the sand real good to minimize the stuff knocked up, which shouldn't be a ton considering I just replaced the sand bed a few weeks ago and I continue to siphon.
Any other tips or methods I should be following would be greatly appreciated.
For one, should I individually bag all my corals? I don't have many colonies- I have a cynarina and an acanthophyllia, but otherwise all my corals should be easily baggable. Another thing I've heard is to get a frag rack for a 5 gallon bucket and transport all the frags that way. Which would be better?
Also, I'm thinking of keeping all my current water as well- I have about a 70 gallon system including the sump, so I was thinking of getting something like this:
https://www.lowes.com/pd/CRAFTSMAN-...acrfBC3pJSVGZ8mNA7hoC4BIQAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds
I'd put the rock and water in these, with the 2 fish I have and all the corals bagged (unless you guys like the bucket route). Then I'd set up the tank with all the water and float the bags, install the heaters, and then re acclamate everything. I'd keep the sand with less than an inch of water over it- I'll do a water change for the 2 days before the move and siphon the sand real good to minimize the stuff knocked up, which shouldn't be a ton considering I just replaced the sand bed a few weeks ago and I continue to siphon.
Any other tips or methods I should be following would be greatly appreciated.
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