Tank Upgrade

[kien]

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.

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. :-)

[ickmagnet]

Never thought of that. Sounds like a great idea. That is what I'll do.

[imcosmokramer]

why not just get a big rubbermaid or two so that you only make two moves.

old-->container
container-->new
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[kien]

Originally Posted by imcosmokramer

why not just get a big rubbermaid or two so that you only make two moves.

old-->container
container-->new

Yup, this would be ideal and preferred for sure! You can get the big 33g totes for heap(ish) but then you are going to have to buy a few of them, plus you will have a bunch of them littering your room with water and you would want to keep them all heated because the heat will drop in them fast! That would be the disadvantage I'd see in this case..

[ickmagnet]

You know what, if I remove all the rock from my tank, I will probably only have about 60-70 gallons of water. I was assuming that I would have to remove 130 gallons from my tank because that is what size it is. Now I just have to find a 60-70 gallon container or maybe I'll just go with the previous idea