Moving Advice 5 year old tank

[StretchHex]

In the next month I'm moving into my new house. I have a 150Gallon tank and it's been going for a long time. The tank is under stocked with 6 fish and two plate corrals so I will probably setup a temporary tank for them while I do the move. Wondering if I should just reuse the sand or what, I haven't touched the sand in a while it's about an inch thick. The rock has its issues too, cactus algae sprouts out from it but it's under control but I have a severe aiptasia out break which is basically just out of control. Not sure what to do here. I won't have to move the tank on the same day as my stuff but it is gunna be busy. What should I do? Thx

[WarDog]

Replacing the substrate with new is the best course of action. You could also bleach and acid bathe the rocks if you are up for the work.... but then your rock would be dead and you'd be starting from square 1.

[StretchHex]

Forgot to mention that I'm buying this place I'm pretty tight on $ so I'd prefer not to buy anything lol. I'm not really wanting to cook the rocks, I've spent the whole life of the tank getting rid of algae off the rocks seems a shame to just kill me now.

[StretchHex]

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[StretchHex]

I dunno why that's sideways but u get the idea

[duncangweller]

I would do what wardog said. It'll only cost you $11 for a bottle of muriatic acid and you can start your tank from scratch with no aptasia. I wouldn't want to go through all the hassle of moving the tank and still having to deal with algae and aptasia.

[StretchHex]

It's also looking like the first location of the tank will be temporary until we redo the floors upstairs

[WarDog]

You have 2 choices really.

1) Move to your new place and do nothing. Reuse substrate and rescape existing algae/aiptasia rock. During which, praying that your old substrate doesn't cause a tank crash.

2) Move into new place, setting up a holding tank for your limited livestock. Finish floors upstairs, at which time you can be bathing and cleaning infested rock. Bleach/acid/baking soda $30. Set up tank in final location and add $100 of lovely, new, clean substrate. Cycle tank then reintroduce livestock.

Personally I would choose option 2, for peace of mind. I understand owning a house makes one broke... but so does our addiction.

[Myka]

I vote option 2 above.

[StretchHex]

Ok so I will cook the rock and do a new sand bed and start over. You think a yellow tang will be fine in a 29 gallon till I get the tank going again? I'm sure it's not ideal but it's what I got. Unless I use an old sump that I have which I think is bigger just don't have a stand for it. Breaking the tank down will take a lot of the moving stress down.