Moving in a few weeks

WIReefer · Aug 27, 2020

Like the title sais I will be moving in a few weeks from the way it looks we are finally selling the house. Depending if we find a house or not, the wife and I might be moving in with her parents for a month or so and they are allowing me to bring my tank. So for the time being do you think it would be fine setting the tank up in a stock Rubbermaid tank it will be much easier in my opinion than moving the entire tank to their house and setting that up. My current tank will be a qt for all fish and will be upgrading once moved into new house. Do you guys think that’s a good choice?

DSEKULA · Aug 27, 2020

Absolutely can work, my tank lived in my sump while i did a rebuild. Many people do this type of transition, just be careful moving everything keeping as much the same as you can for minimal stress. I bagged my rocks in water and opened the bags in the new tank for example and tried to keep coral roughly the same distance from lights etc. It might be overkill but i wanted to retain the biological filter as much as i could and do ny best to keep the coral stress free. Just make sure you do a good rinse on the sand if you plan on moving it.

WIReefer · Aug 27, 2020

TJDSEKULA said:
Absolutely can work, my tank lived in my sump while i did a rebuild. Many people do this type of transition, just be careful moving everything keeping as much the same as you can for minimal stress. I bagged my rocks in water and opened the bags in the new tank for example and tried to keep coral roughly the same distance from lights etc. It might be overkill but i wanted to retain the biological filter as much as i could and do ny best to keep the coral stress free. Just make sure you do a good rinse on the sand if you plan on moving it.

Thank you much, I was planning on just trashing the sand my new tank I want to go bare bottom. Was planning on storing rocks in 5 gallon buckets until places in stock tank and using all old water as well.

WIReefer · Aug 27, 2020

Was thinking a 100 gallon stock tank to fit all my live rock that is in tank and sump.

rwreef · Aug 27, 2020

Yup, it will work. We use tanks because it offer easy viewing. Stable water parameters make the livestock thrive not us viewing them

WIReefer · Aug 27, 2020

rwreef said:
Yup, it will work. We use tanks because it offer easy viewing. Stable water parameters make the livestock thrive not us viewing them

Good to know I think I will be buying one here shortly! Thanks guys

DSEKULA · Aug 27, 2020

WIReefer said:
Thank you much, I was planning on just trashing the sand my new tank I want to go bare bottom. Was planning on storing rocks in 5 gallon buckets until places in stock tank and using all old water as well.

Old water will mostly just carry what ever nutrients you have in the tank most of your bacteria is in the hard surfaces. You can use it but dont sweat it if you have to wrap your rocks in moist paper towels bag them and then mix new water for transportation as long as their kept moist you will be fine. For the rock rubbermaid just toss in a heater and cheap powerhead or air pump so things dont go stagnant.

WIReefer · Aug 27, 2020

TJDSEKULA said:
Old water will mostly just carry what ever nutrients you have in the tank most of your bacteria is in the hard surfaces. You can use it but dont sweat it if you have to wrap your rocks in moist paper towels bag them and then mix new water for transportation as long as their kept moist you will be fine. For the rock rubbermaid just toss in a heater and cheap powerhead or air pump so things dont go stagnant.

Perfect sounds easy enough the week before we move to her parents house I will set up ro unit, fill tank with water and heater and get the water circulating.

WIReefer · Aug 30, 2020

So it looks like I will be moving my livestock to that stock tank either this coming weekend or following weekend. My question is how will my filtration work since I will not have a sump in that stock tank? Will my live rock do the job for now? Only transferring a few corals and 6 fish.

DSEKULA · Aug 30, 2020

WIReefer said:
So it looks like I will be moving my livestock to that stock tank either this coming weekend or following weekend. My question is how will my filtration work since I will not have a sump in that stock tank? Will my live rock do the job for now? Only transferring a few corals and 6 fish.

Thought you said the current tank would hold stock and the rubbermaid would be for rock holding. Your rocks will work as biological filtration but depending on stock youd also want to add the other filter elements if possible if the stock tank is holding fish and coral as well along with lights for the coral. You can always place an internal skimmer on an eggcrate platform in a rubbermaid for example or toss media in a canaster or hob filter. Honestly it will depend how your current system is set up and how delicate the coral is but i would try to find a way to match the current equipment as close as possible to keep parameters from swinging for the coral.

WIReefer · Aug 30, 2020

TJDSEKULA said:
Thought you said the current tank would hold stock and the rubbermaid would be for rock holding. Your rocks will work as biological filtration but depending on stock youd also want to add the other filter elements if possible if the stock tank is holding fish and coral as well along with lights for the coral. You can always place an internal skimmer on an eggcrate platform in a rubbermaid for example or toss media in a canaster or hob filter. Honestly it will depend how your current system is set up and how delicate the coral is but i would try to find a way to match the current equipment as close as possible to keep parameters from swinging for the coral.

Sorry if I wasn’t clear enough, I just sold all my sps because I didn’t want to lose any of them. I have mostly zoas/palys and acans I am keeping. Currently don’t run anything in sump other than filter socks and live rock. I was thinking of adding a skimmer in stock tank for better filtration. Will be setting up my sunpower over the stock tank for lighting. I do have two hob filters I could run

DSEKULA · Aug 30, 2020

WIReefer said:
Sorry if I wasn’t clear enough, I just sold all my sps because I didn’t want to lose any of them. I have mostly zoas/palys and acans I am keeping. Currently don’t run anything in sump other than filter socks and live rock. I was thinking of adding a skimmer in stock tank for better filtration. Will be setting up my sunpower over the stock tank for lighting. I do have two hob filters I could run

If all you run normally is rock and socks you should be fine. What reefers call filter socks are generally refered to as bag filters in water treatment. They fit in filters housings similar to your rodi system, you could always plumb one of these to a pump and run it on the stock tank if you wanted. Just search bag filter housing and you'll find tons. On the other hand many people run systems without mechanical filtration successfully. You could always just let particles collect then turn off flow and suck everything up once in a while.

xxkenny90xx · Aug 30, 2020

I would probably do extra water changes to be safe but you'll be fine. Use the hob filter since you have one (for some extra filtration but mainly to boost oxygen levels)