MOVING HELP PLEASE

[lockrookie]

well if you sell it all this is my suggestion. open a bank account that is stirictly for your tank funds put all the proceeds in said account and let it collect intrest and add a little here and there. so when you are ready to return to the hobby and the stars have aligned you can use the funds in your account for it. sure in emergency if you need to dip into the account. but it will be easier to get a new setup if you have it there waiting down the road and not such an blow to your wallet.

just my 2 centss
jeff

[NemoanDory]

Sooooo the boyfriend seen how upset I was and was able to convience his brother to allow it in the basement of their house (they bought it together the basement area is his brothers area)

SO I am moving it!

NOW I need a little advice as to how to transfer everything from the existing tank to the new tank. I am NOT looking forward to this part lol.

So if anyone has moved a tank and done a huge upgrade at the same time and has some imput it would be greatly appreciated.

The tank I have right now is 110 gal (for sale in the add section) Upgrading to a 240 gal tank.

Once everything is settled in and doing well I will add photos

[Coralgurl]

So happy to hear this has worked out for you!! Good luck with the move!!

[NemoanDory]

Thank you Coralgurl I am very excited about this but very worried with such a big move I have lots of nice corals and am very worried about losing them

[Gripenfelter]

I've done the "big move" twice.

Here's what I did...

Set up new tank.

Every water change add water from the old tank to the new tank. If you are pressed for time I would transfer over as much of the water from the old tank to the new tank to minimize break-in time. Top up the rest with new saltwater.

Set up sump/pump/powerheads and optimize flow rates.

I added lots of micro-bacter and cycle to keep the bio filtration at optimum.

Brought the temp of the water up to match the temp of the old tank within 0.5 degrees.

Place all of the rock in the new tank and do some preliminary aquascaping.

Place the coral in the new tank and mount it.

Catch the fish and transport them in 5 gallon buckets to the new tank. Add Prime to the tank to help de-stress the fish.

Add lights.

Stir up and rinse the sand in the OLD tank daily or every few hours. Let the garbage get filtered out. Vacuum it and then transport to new tank. I put in about 1 KG of sand from the old tank to the new tank daily to minimize fogging and prevent nitrate shock. I left one powerhead in the old tank to keep the sand live in the old tank until I was ready to move all of it.

Monitor all your levels daily for the next 2 weeks.

I have nil nitrates and ammonia from day 1.

*Knock on wood*.

[NemoanDory]

I will be keeping my equipment for my new tank I am setting it up right away.


NemoAnDory