Moving Advice 5 year old tank

[StretchHex]

It's also looking like the first location of the tank will be temporary until we redo the floors upstairs

[WarDog]

You have 2 choices really.

1) Move to your new place and do nothing. Reuse substrate and rescape existing algae/aiptasia rock. During which, praying that your old substrate doesn't cause a tank crash.

2) Move into new place, setting up a holding tank for your limited livestock. Finish floors upstairs, at which time you can be bathing and cleaning infested rock. Bleach/acid/baking soda $30. Set up tank in final location and add $100 of lovely, new, clean substrate. Cycle tank then reintroduce livestock.

Personally I would choose option 2, for peace of mind. I understand owning a house makes one broke... but so does our addiction.

[Myka]

I vote option 2 above.

[StretchHex]

Ok so I will cook the rock and do a new sand bed and start over. You think a yellow tang will be fine in a 29 gallon till I get the tank going again? I'm sure it's not ideal but it's what I got. Unless I use an old sump that I have which I think is bigger just don't have a stand for it. Breaking the tank down will take a lot of the moving stress down.

[SeaHorse_Fanatic]

I have a 110 g "pond" (Tuff Totes black container) that you are welcome to borrow as well as a 30" cube that I am currently storing at my parents' home in SE Vancouver. Let me know if these would work better for you and I can arrange something.

Anthony

[Myka]

How big is the YT?

[StretchHex]

Sorry YT?