Would of been helpful if you’d spoke about temps, fish, keeping the rocks ok, reusing water. Basically anything other than how to physically move a tank
I literally just moved my tank to a new home this weekend. Basically did everything said on this video. Except I kept my original sand and my tank did not go through a cycle at all. Everything is doing great and everything looks happy.
Yea I was saying to myself...uh no..I'm not gonna toss my sand I have 100 pounds of Tropic Eden Live Tonga Pink Sand that I just put in there..I really like this sand.
Yesterday I moved my old 10 gallon reef to the floor so I could set up my Cube 20 on the same stand and this is pretty much how I did it. I'm not sure who was stressed more, me or my corals and fish, but everyone is ok!
Waterbox Aquariums helped me a ton in setting up my first saltwater tank. I bought a used nano AIO cube for my first tank and it's lasted me 3 years before it just started to slow leak at seams. I just purchased a Waterbox 20 cube and I've been dreading the transfer thinking of all the SPS colonies I'm going to shatter and fish I'm going to stress out. 😩
Great video and advice, I Move 5 years ago and didn't change my sand which was a mistake at the time, my tank cycle again after 3 weeks even after using Bio spiral Bacteria/30G of tank water and fresh saltwater lost a yellow Tang, Blue Tang and Rabbit Fish.
The one benefit about not having corals is that, if you kept the rocks loose and movable, you can rescape the whole tank to your heart's desire. I always bring home huge live rocks from the beach in my province town and I always redo my scape so I can maximize the rocks I have to create as many hiding places as possible before I place sand in afterwards to prevent rock slides.
I disagree with not keeping the sand. You can rinse it with clean saltwarer through a filter. If you add new sand you'll start a new curing cycle which will cause a massive diatom outbreak and dinos. You may even kill off your acros. Same as adding new rock. You don't want to do it if you can avoid it. Sand can be rinsed and cleaned. The only reason I'd do new sand is if it was infested with bristleworms or something. Also, good tip, if you get a diamond goby your sand will be pristine, no gases or build up of detritus.
I'm about to transfer everything to a brand new tank and was thinking the same thing. I have a pistol shrimp + goby that are constantly overturning 80% of my sandbed and figured it wouldn't be as big of a problem vs. people who just have stagnant sand that has never even been overturned from siphon cleaning.
Great video you guys I just didn’t like the fact that you were putting the rock back in before the tank was even close to filled up the whole time you were doing that all those corals and everything is being exposed to air if you had been beneficial things on there like sponges their long gone but thank you for the video. I’m going to use this advice when I move my tank in the next month.
How would you go about upgrading a tank at the same time as a move? I will be using the same sump so I won't be able to plumb it fully until the day of. Any tips?
Yes, but you’re adding more and your sump should do most of the heavy lifting. I think the risk of ammonia pockets in the sand is greater than the risk of not having enough bacteria in the sump, on your rocks ect. And after adding beneficial bacteria out of a bottle
It also depends on what the state of your sand is? I have a diamond goby and an engineer goby, they turn my sand over all the time so i'm not afraid of any pockets.
