we specialize in this in the sand rinse thread. ironically, the safe way to move homes is to rinse your sand in a unique way so that it is cloudless.
the rocks rinsed too, but differently than the sand, so they re set up cloudless, no waste detritus = no recycle. cloudless sand, cleaned before the move, and cloudless rocks, cleaned before moving won't recycle.
re acclimate fish and corals into matching temp and salinity at the new home
as you are draining the tank initially to catch stuff it begins to cloud, so catch most sensitives first like fish.
simply do not house fish or corals around cloudy waste, the entire exercise is predicting what will cloud and rinsing that out before it clouds, don't cloud eh
the hidden secret is that you will not run low on bacteria after all the pre cleaning to remove waste.
transport only cleaned materials
set up only cleaned materials, all pre cleaning is done before packing for the move in buckets/however you were going to move things in batter bubbler setups.
the rinsing:
all sand, new and or old, is rinsed in tap water until it runs 100% clear. final rinse is RO, ready for cloudless re-use.
the rocks are swished around roughly in old tank water, saltwater, as they're the only bacteria we need. The rinsing of the sand was to jet all the waste out. if you are using new sand, you are pre rinsing just the same to jet all the silt out. the funny part is after all this people ask me if the bacteria will be harmed, no lol its rock solid plan.
clouding from new sand is inert silting and looks horrible, we rinse for looks.
clouding from old materials is oxygen-sapping and in some cases ammonia-pumping and its usually always invasion fuel. the only possible way a recycle happens is due to upwelling of filth, not lack of bacteria. that which was wet stays covered in bacteria, even after tap rinsing. even if it loses some, we dont care, rocks were saltwater rinsed only.
