Avoiding a sandbed crash when moving tanks

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Originally Posted by howdy20012002

in my experience
if you are going to reuse the sand make sure that you clean it really well..more so than just swirling it around in the tank.
I would the sand out, wash it thoroughly and put it in the new tank
when I have moved tanks in the pasts, the sand bed is what has given me troubles
Neal

+1

Personally though I find it such a pain to rinse all the old sand out, much easier and safer to just buy new sand.