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[Poseidon87]

Hey MR ,

I am hoping someone can help me. I have a RSR 350 and I am moving from one apartment to another apartment in my building but only have 2 days to do this, tomorrow and Saturday unfortunately. Can anyone who has done this before or has knowledge of the best way of doing this without crashing my tank or killing anything help?

Thank you in advance.

 

[Timbo]

Lots of Home Depot buckets. I

 

[Poseidon87]

Lots of Home Depot buckets. I

going to use totes and buckets and already made 85 gallons of fresh salt water

 

[bonomo53]

Replace the sand but reuse as much water as you can. You can keep the corals and fish in the totes all day as long as you have power heads and heaters in them.

 

[Poseidon87]

Replace the sand but reuse as much water as you can. You can keep the corals and fish in the totes all day as long as you have power heads and heaters in them.

so don't use fresh salt water ?

 

[bonomo53]

so don't use fresh salt water ?

I would reuse as much as the tank water as your can first then top off whatever is left with fresh water. I have done this the past 3 tank moves and didn't lose anything.

 

[sun1914]

Ive done this a few times already and have had success each time. Empty as much of the tank as you can water wise. Home depot buckets are the cheapest route. Leave the sand in the tank and muscle that bitcg into the new apartment. Once u have the tank in the new spot start dumping that same water back into the tank. Slowly!!! So u dont stir up a bunch of sish out the sandbed and cause a algae bloom.

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[nanoreefer22]

I second ditching the sand. Unless you're really careful you're going to stir it up enough to cause a headache. New sand is relatively cheap when you compare it to losing a few pieces. Or go barebottom.

 

[Poseidon87]

Thanks all ! I wound up ditching literally 98% of the sand and put in new sand, and was able to reuse 50 gallons and put the rest fresh. So far all is good thank god

 

[SALTCREEP]

Have 30 gallons of fresh saltwater mixed already at your new apartment in a 40 gallon brute. Get new sand and use as much as your tank water as possible without any detritus in it. Keep your livestock in buckets for a couple of hours until you have the tank moved into your new apartment. Then set it back up, run it, and once the tank water is clear put everything back in your tank. Use fresh filter socks to help clear the water up faster. I've done this numerous times with great success

 

[Poseidon87]

Have 30 gallons of fresh saltwater mixed already at your new apartment in a 40 gallon brute. Get new sand and use as much as your tank water as possible without any detritus in it. Keep your livestock in buckets for a couple of hours until you have the tank moved into your new apartment. Then set it back up, run it, and once the tank water is clear put everything back in your tank. Use fresh filter socks to help clear the water up faster. I've done this numerous times with great success

This is exactly what I wound up doing so far everything is thriving only issue is the scape is different, no matter how hard I tried I couldn't match it lol

 

[SALTCREEP]

Lmfao. You can never repeat the scape EXACTLY the way you had it. Lol

 

[reefman]

mission impossible

 

[Geraud]

Trying to rescape an established tank is like trying to finish a 1000 pieces puzzle which suddenly has 1500 pieces.

 

[Arnaldo24]

Lmfao. You can never repeat the scape EXACTLY the way you had it. Lol

Yes u can. When u have just 2 big custom pieces. Lmao