90g setup and transport.

[ducks4rob]

New to the game. Hello everybody. Acquiring an established tank that I am going to have to move about 4 hours away. 90 gallon setup with live rock and deep sand bed. Only 1 fish, a little foxface. Bunch of questions on the move.
1. What is best way to transport rock and sand. Was thinking cooler with a bubbler to keep the rock in good shape. Is the rock going to maintain its liveliness if done this way?

2. do I need to keep the sand or simply replace?

3. How much of the water should I keep? I can keep the fish in a QT if need be to re establing the rock and water. Or, should I just change out about 1/3 or so of the water?

4. Should I wire a dedicated GFCI for the setup? I can do all of that myself.

5. How many questions have I failed to ask in regards to this transport.

Here in central TX the temp are averaging about 100. Thinking on making a really early or a late start to have cooler overall conditions.

Ultimate goal is to get a much larger tank to put in living room wall. The wife said NO, so I was thinking maybe I could slide this by un noticed. I'm sure wherever I put it will end up being my bedroom for a little while anyway.

Thanks for any help.

 

[Crabs McJones]

New to the game. Hello everybody. Acquiring an established tank that I am going to have to move about 4 hours away. 90 gallon setup with live rock and deep sand bed. Only 1 fish, a little foxface. Bunch of questions on the move.
1. What is best way to transport rock and sand. Was thinking cooler with a bubbler to keep the rock in good shape. Is the rock going to maintain its liveliness if done this way?

2. do I need to keep the sand or simply replace?

3. How much of the water should I keep? I can keep the fish in a QT if need be to re establing the rock and water. Or, should I just change out about 1/3 or so of the water?

4. Should I wire a dedicated GFCI for the setup? I can do all of that myself.

5. How many questions have I failed to ask in regards to this transport.

Here in central TX the temp are averaging about 100. Thinking on making a really early or a late start to have cooler overall conditions.

Ultimate goal is to get a much larger tank to put in living room wall. The wife said NO, so I was thinking maybe I could slide this by un noticed. I'm sure wherever I put it will end up being my bedroom for a little while anyway.

Thanks for any help.

Welcome to R2R!

#WelcometoR2R
1: A big tub with a batter operated air pump, or if you have a power inverter for your car that you can plug a powerhead in.
2: New sand, when you stir up the old sand it releases alot of trapped detritus and other nastiness that you don't want when you reset the tank up
3: Try to keep as much water as possible, ultimately you won't be able to keep it all, but as much as you can
4: ABSOLUTELY! @Brew12 would agree
Round up as much help as you can, this stuff can get heavy! If you have the ability to put the fish into a quarantine I would recommend it, that way if there is any issues with the tank after its been set back up, you don't risk any of your fish
Others will chime in with more info hopefully, but welcome to the forum and thanks for introducing yourself

 

[ducks4rob]

Thanks. Any particular way I should clean coolers or trash cans to eliminate or minimize contaminates? Same for QT tank that has been in garage for a while?

 

[Crabs McJones]

Thanks. Any particular way I should clean coolers or trash cans to eliminate or minimize contaminates? Same for QT tank that has been in garage for a while?

Scrub with vinegar and rinse out with ro/di water.