I moved my 75g across town and had no problems but had the advantage of being able to have 80-90g of fresh heated SW available at the new house.
Drained about 25g of the original tank water into 5g pails (one for fish). Put the LR into large plastic tubs, covered with tank water. Caught the fish and placed into one of the 5g pails. Was going to scoop up the top inch of the DSB to re-establish a new DSB but decided to go BB so didn't bother. Drained the rest of the water, took out all the sand and gave the tank a good cleaning.
Once at the new place, set the tank back up, got it leveled then added the water from the pails, placed the LR (discarding the water from the tubs), topped up with the SW I had waiting. Drained quite of bit of the water from the one pail with the fish then added water from the tank to acclimatize. Once acclimatized, added fish to tank. Topped the tank back up with the remaining mix.
No losses, no problem.
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