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I will be picking up my very first saltwater aquarium this Friday ;Joyful . The seller suggest I keep the sand and water, however, after doing research i'm seeing it's probably best to replace the sand with new? If I'm going to do this, is it really worth saving his water as well? I'm running into an issue on transporting the water. I may have to use storage totes and hope that the water doesn't spill out or get trash cans and try that. I'm trying to figure out what the best route would be. A little about the tank, there are no fish or corals. It does come with rock, sand, and algae (lol). It is still running. Seller took all corals and fish out as he upgraded to a larger tank. Just trying to get advice on how to move this and be successful. I don't want to use the sand/water/rock if it will potentially cause me hurtles later. I do have a ro/di 4 stage system on the way. It will be here tomo so I can start producing ro water.
A: Start from scratch, replace sand, use my own RO water, clean and scrub everything and only use the rock
B: reuse sellers water, replace sand with new, get cuc to take care of the algae
C: reuse sellers water and sand. Clean nothing and cuc to take care of the algae
D: insert your idea here....lol

Thank you in advance for any help! I did do some searching on my own first but I'm still unsure which route would be best. The attached image is what the tank currently looks like

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Hi welcome to the money pit….. oh sorry I meant saltwater hobby lol. I would not use any of the water or sand he has and I would probably scrub and cure the rock and start from scratch on it. As far as moving everything I would put the rocks in a toat with wet saltwater rags covering them. What vehicle do you have car, truck, trailer, suv. Make sure when you move it you wrap it in some sort of sheat to protect the glass does it have a sump, plumbing etc?
 
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He said it comes with protein skimmer, return pump, heater and media racks. He said its all ready to go if I want to just pick up cuc but after all my reading I didn't think that was wise. I will def remember to take something to wrap the glass in as I didnt think of that! It'll be about a 45min trip.

We will probably take our jeep as I don't think hubby wants to risk his new truck getting scratched up lol

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I'm super excited to dig into this money pit lol
 
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I think since it doesn’t have any livestock I would definitely go with option A.
the water will be a pain to transport. If you do transport, you can get a food grade 5 gallon bucket with lids you have use a rubber mallet to get on. That way it’s doesn’t splash in your car. I recently took on a stocked biocube that had GHA problem. I wish I would have replaced the sand before setting it back up due to ongoing nitrate and algae issues. Option A all the way.
 
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R33FDr3amer said:
I will be picking up my very first saltwater aquarium this Friday ;Joyful . The seller suggest I keep the sand and water, however, after doing research i'm seeing it's probably best to replace the sand with new? If I'm going to do this, is it really worth saving his water as well? I'm running into an issue on transporting the water. I may have to use storage totes and hope that the water doesn't spill out or get trash cans and try that. I'm trying to figure out what the best route would be. A little about the tank, there are no fish or corals. It does come with rock, sand, and algae (lol). It is still running. Seller took all corals and fish out as he upgraded to a larger tank. Just trying to get advice on how to move this and be successful. I don't want to use the sand/water/rock if it will potentially cause me hurtles later. I do have a ro/di 4 stage system on the way. It will be here tomo so I can start producing ro water.
A: Start from scratch, replace sand, use my own RO water, clean and scrub everything and only use the rock
B: reuse sellers water, replace sand with new, get cuc to take care of the algae
C: reuse sellers water and sand. Clean nothing and cuc to take care of the algae
D: insert your idea here....lol

Thank you in advance for any help! I did do some searching on my own first but I'm still unsure which route would be best. The attached image is what the tank currently looks like

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The idea is to keep the sand wet and bacteria alive. Plan on setting back up to furnish oxygen to anerobic bacteria and add liquid bacteria such as Dr. Tims or Microbacter XLM to restore/build cultures at 1.5ml per 10 gallons (3ml)
 
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R33FDr3amer said:
He said it comes with protein skimmer, return pump, heater and media racks. He said its all ready to go if I want to just pick up cuc but after all my reading I didn't think that was wise. I will def remember to take something to wrap the glass in as I didnt think of that! It'll be about a 45min trip.

We will probably take our jeep as I don't think hubby wants to risk his new truck getting scratched up lol

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I'm super excited to dig into this money pit lol
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I would put all the equipment in a separate toat and you probably will have to make more than one trip if your taking a jeep because that’s a lot of equipment for one trip lol.
 
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@rmorris_14 This is exactly what I was thinking. I really don't want a bigger issue down the road, especially with it being my first tank. I know there will be issues and problems I will have to sort through, but I definitely don't want to add to it if it can be helped! lol
thanks again everyone!
 
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R33FDr3amer said:
@rmorris_14 This is exactly what I was thinking. I really don't want a bigger issue down the road, especially with it being my first tank. I know there will be issues and problems I will have to sort through, but I definitely don't want to add to it if it can be helped! lol
thanks again everyone!
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For sure! Especially since you aren’t trying to transport fish and support that bioload. I would take your time to research exactly how you want to set it up. It will save you money in the long run. I’ve really enjoyed setting up my evo for this reason. Because I get to decide from the beginning. There are lot of decisions the previous owner of my biocube made that I would have done differently, am I still trying work through them. The tank is awesome though, so congrats on starting the biocube journey. :)
 
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I would buy some citric acid on Amazon and fill It up and let it run for a week. It will clean up all the algae and make the tank look brand new. Enjoy the new tank!
 
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R33FDr3amer said:
I will be picking up my very first saltwater aquarium this Friday ;Joyful . The seller suggest I keep the sand and water, however, after doing research i'm seeing it's probably best to replace the sand with new? If I'm going to do this, is it really worth saving his water as well? I'm running into an issue on transporting the water. I may have to use storage totes and hope that the water doesn't spill out or get trash cans and try that. I'm trying to figure out what the best route would be. A little about the tank, there are no fish or corals. It does come with rock, sand, and algae (lol). It is still running. Seller took all corals and fish out as he upgraded to a larger tank. Just trying to get advice on how to move this and be successful. I don't want to use the sand/water/rock if it will potentially cause me hurtles later. I do have a ro/di 4 stage system on the way. It will be here tomo so I can start producing ro water.
A: Start from scratch, replace sand, use my own RO water, clean and scrub everything and only use the rock
B: reuse sellers water, replace sand with new, get cuc to take care of the algae
C: reuse sellers water and sand. Clean nothing and cuc to take care of the algae
D: insert your idea here....lol

Thank you in advance for any help! I did do some searching on my own first but I'm still unsure which route would be best. The attached image is what the tank currently looks like

266998835_4221925554574747_4927037353558233752_n.jpg
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A all the way, just keep enough water in a bucket to keep the rock wet.
 
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Why get rid of the sand? Unless you don't like that type it is still good. Save a little $$ and do a very thorough rinse of the sand in a bucket until the water is clear. Rinse once more in fresh RODI and add to the tank. I don't get why folks always want to get rid of the sand.
 
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R33FDr3amer said:
@Naturalreef Thank you! That's a great idea! Should I leave the rock in it as well?
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Don’t leave the rock in it if you run citric acid through the tank. I’d would keep the rocking a bucket of saltwater separate so you don’t loose all the good stuff on it.
 
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Couple of 5gal buckets from home depot and lids are gonna be your friends.
Idd get a.cpl more.pieces of Rock and a small powerhead/WaveMaker if it doesn't come with one. 32 biocube! Right.on. congrats! Biggest biocube. Go u. U got this!

I'm all.for.option A.
Clean. Water change. Clean. Water change. Lol.
Add a small fish. Give it a week or two.
Bam. U should be good to go.
D
 
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Why get rid of the sand? Unless you don't like that type it is still good. Save a little $$ and do a very thorough rinse of the sand in a bucket until the water is clear. Rinse once more in fresh RODI and add to the tank. I don't get why folks always want to get rid of the sand.
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We usually get rid of it due to the fact it holds in nitrates algae diotoms distris bristle worms other pests and any diseases the other owner might have had in it in the long run it’s cheaper to buy new sand!
 
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