Good news/Bad News - It looks like we're closing on a house soon, but that means moving our small 40BR humble reef.
I was planning to setup a new 40BR as a holding tank at the new house in advance and let it cycle as an AIO/holding tank.
Rough plans are:
1) Setup holding tank w/ sand & cycle
2) Extract live rock/coral into buckets/containers
3) extract small fish into one container, larger fish on their own
4) extract refugium chaeto/rocks/etc into container
5) dump current 4" sand bed or at least clean/recycle it
6) Move tank/sump as mostly empty
7) Setup sump/display plumbing, add new sand - let it run/settle for 24-48 hours while coral/fish in holding tank
8) Move everything over to new setup in new house
Any thoughts/advice on this? Is it worth dumping the current sandbed in our display? (It's < 6 months old) I wasn't planning to clean/scrape the current display, but do a best effort to remove saltwater/sandbed before transport.
I was planning to setup a new 40BR as a holding tank at the new house in advance and let it cycle as an AIO/holding tank.
Rough plans are:
1) Setup holding tank w/ sand & cycle
2) Extract live rock/coral into buckets/containers
3) extract small fish into one container, larger fish on their own
4) extract refugium chaeto/rocks/etc into container
5) dump current 4" sand bed or at least clean/recycle it
6) Move tank/sump as mostly empty
7) Setup sump/display plumbing, add new sand - let it run/settle for 24-48 hours while coral/fish in holding tank
8) Move everything over to new setup in new house
Any thoughts/advice on this? Is it worth dumping the current sandbed in our display? (It's < 6 months old) I wasn't planning to clean/scrape the current display, but do a best effort to remove saltwater/sandbed before transport.