moving a tank and fish

[TheReefGeek]

What size tank did you move that you could keep the sand and some water in there?

Consider that when you move a tank, you are no longer applying even pressure along the bottom of the tank, you are risking busting a seam whenever you move a tank, and that is more likely if you leave a hundred+ pounds in it, plus it becomes much heavier to move.

Your call though of course, let us know how it works out, depends on how deep the sandbed is too.

I would remove the sand, and rinse 80% of it heavily to get rid of the detrius. save 20% to re-populate the loss of life in the rest of the sandbed.

[Sushiman]

I moved mine-sand & liverock + some water, quite sucessfully, in a 100gal cooler. The whole thing stayed in my new garage until the new set-up was ready. Yes, it was heavy, but it was not at all unmanageble; myself & one other guy moved it around with a little muscle & a flat dolly.
At no time did I advocate transporting within an aquarium.

[TheReefGeek]

Sushiman, it was skylord advocating not removing the sand, not you, sorry if you missinturpreted.

[skylord]

I shouldnt respond so early in the morning....the sand bed in the tank I moved wasnt very much. But I guess what isnt known is how much is in this tank. So if it were a thick bed, I would, like Rory said, also toss a large part of it.

[TheReefGeek]

Yeah it would depend on the tank size, and the sandbed size.

I use DSBs so they have to be removed.

If you do remove the sand, keep some of it undisturbed but the rest I would probably clean/rinse because otherwise you could release a lot of detrius. Of course it depends on how much detrius is in there, which depends mostly on how long the tank was setup for.