Moving a 135 gal reef tank

[Tsev03]

I have to move my tank to my bedroom because we r getting new carpet in the living room. I have a 2 inch sand bed. Can I take the sand out and put it in buckets then return it to the tank as soon as it is moved? Like maybe within 2 hours. I have other tanks that I’ll put the water and livestock in while moving the tank

 

[hotashes]

I have to move my tank to my bedroom because we r getting new carpet in the living room. I have a 2 inch sand bed. Can I take the sand out and put it in buckets then return it to the tank as soon as it is moved? Like maybe within 2 hours. I have other tanks that I’ll put the water and livestock in while moving the tank

Thanks to @brandon429 take a look at this https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/t...ead-aka-one-against-many.230281/#post-2681445
Will help you decide

 

[Tsev03]

Thanks to @brandon429 take a look at this https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/t...ead-aka-one-against-many.230281/#post-2681445
Will help you decide

Thank you. I’m reading it now

 

[brandon429]

agreed! this is the intercept point of the year, a required move. the reset tank can have a cloudless sandbed=yay on catching up. repeat as needed/anytime the sandbed can't be reached in and dropped cleanly, without cloud, then we're building slowly to the point of invasion.


of course our reefs only pass the drop test right after the fix...all of us are storing waste heading back to the bad case scenario. Its at least handy to envision that difference among sandbeds, where the clean ones never have invasions and some of the dirty ones sure do.

the detritus never helps you, so remove it at this time yep.