moving to another city-liverock question

[FitoPharmer]

If you have lots of green hair algae scrub it off before you store it otherwise it will die and absorb into the rock over a week of sitting out of water. It will not likely get rid of your algae problem. When you set up again it should return, it is very hardy stuff. The best way to preserve your rock from cycling is keeping it out of water for the least amount of time possible. I always preferred rubbermaid garbage cans for transferring water and rock.