Moving from one tank to another.

[fishoholic]

We moved our 65g into a 120g (two years ago) and in Jan. we moved our 120g and 30g into a 230g. Each move took us one day to do.

First (a few days before the move) we filled up the new larger tank with new sand and mostly new water. Then we seeded the new sand with some of the old sand and added a little bit of the old water and ran the skimmer to clear up the water.

On the day of the move we put all the LR into rubbermaid containers that were 1/2 filled with SW, power heads and heaters. We had the large rubbermaid containers set up in front of the new tank and we used buckets to transfer the rock over from the old tank to the rubbermaids. Then we transfered all the fish into a different rubbermaid that had a couple of LR pieces, a heater, a bubbler and a power head in it.

Then we placed/set up the LR in the new tank and after we had it the way we liked it, we added the fish.

The move was a lot of work and it did take all day but the move went very smoothly and we didn't loose any corals or fish.