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Originally Posted by Aquattro (Post 899799)

An example of draining tanks

Years ago I was moving across town, running a 75g SPS tank. Was feeling lazy, so I rented 20 5g water bottles with caps. Drained tank into bottles, disconnected the plumbing and loaded the full reef with fish flopping around the bottom into a van on 4x4 blocks. Drove about 10k across town to my new condo, moved the stand in, carried tank up and placed it then dumped the water bottles back in the tank. Other than some really annoyed fish, everything was fine. Nothing moved or shifted, all corals were intact :)

Did it again moving out of the condo into my current house.

lol wow that sounds scary. But it sure sounds like that is the way to go about it. Thanks for all the input guys, very helpful. Im gonna try once he goes into the sand tonight and if I can't get him I'm draining my tank tomorrow. I will post how it turns out. Thanks again guys, great ideas.

Good luck, if you need some buckets, let me know.

you should put your space monsters in my nano tank just in case tho while you're draining your tank
:mrgreen:

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Originally Posted by Aquattro (Post 899792)

Drain tank, pick him up.

+1 done this a few times

Well ended up just letting him go in the sand, and in the morning i just took my net and scooped him up. Couldn't have gone any smoother. Thanks for all the advice guys.

I was going to say that :surprise:

What I did once with a big green wrasse was put a piece of PVC pipe vertically in the tank.. The bottom end plugged.. Fill it within a couple of inches with sand. The wrasse being curious would go in during the day and bury himself in it at night.. While he was buried just pick up the pipe :)