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Originally Posted by ickmagnet
Sounds good. Thanks for the suggestions.
Just a bit of a problem though. i cannot pump from one tank to the other because the new one will be going into the place of the old one. So, I have to empty out the old one and save as much water as possible in various rubbermaid containers (by the way, if anyone has an old tank I could borrow or a bunch of containers, please let me know. I can leave a deposit). It will be too heavy to move with water in it. Then, I would move the old tank out of the way and place the new tank in it's place. I would make a new sand bed for the new tank and start adding water from the containers. I will hopefully have enough RODI saltwater saved up as well to top it off.
Hopefully this can all happen in one day.
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It may sound like a lot of work.. but something else you can do is, use your new tank as an intermediate holding area as well. So..
1. move everything from the old tank to the new tank that is sitting on the floor nearby.
2. Move the old tank out of the way and onto the floor or somewhere nearby.
3. Move everything from the new tank to the old tank.
4. Move the new tank onto stand and into position
5. move everybody from old tank to new tank.
This is why it is important to keep both tanks/holding areas heated and flowing at the same time. If you do this they'll be fine. Just a little freaked out but the water is the same, no parameter changes as far as they are concerned. Just a bit of shuffling around.
And take your time. :-)