Full sps reef, how to catch a powder blue?

[tang daddy]

Originally Posted by marie

I've drained my 175g to catch all of my fish once. It took me 1.5 hrs start to finish and no corals were moved or damaged.
I have sand so I made a large hollow in the sand near the front of the tank and started draining the tank at the other end, ignoring the fish entirely. They were so used to me working on the tank that non of them were the least bit freaked out until they realized they were trapped in the hollow

YeaH Marie, exactly what Ill be doing this Saturday, I have some large pieces of rock on the top so its easy enough to remove once the canopy is off....
When I scaped this tank I used 10 pieces of rock so If I had to tear it down in future it would be a breeze. I can manually remove half the scape inside my tank in under 10 mins if I wanted to.

The LR will go into a large rubbermaid tub, then its a matter of draining the tank with 2 pumps to about 4" of water, scooping the fish out and replacing the water back in. I am sure the sps and clams will be ****ed but I will run a filter sock to catch all the extra slime in the tank. I am glad that its only a 75g with 80lbs of rock so basically about 50g of water.... I figure the tank will be empty for about 15mins so the sps should not be effected that much....