Purchasing a used Biocube 32 need moving advice

[R33FDr3amer]

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

 

[Airwolf]

If I had to do it all over again I might have gone in the middle of the cabinet to avoid putting both hard war in the same vicinity... but I liked the way it looked at the top better.

Thanks, exactly what I was thinking it would look like. I think I may try a different one that are a little narrower. And may put it on the bottom and do a false floor for all the transformer packs and the such.

 

[R33FDr3amer]

Mine fit OK. Just installed it today. Thank you for the idea @rmorris_14 ! We put it just below where the door hinges are. Right door is very close to screw heads but doesn't touch.

 

[rmorris_14]

Mine fit OK. Just installed it today. Thank you for the idea @rmorris_14 ! We put it just below where the door hinges are. Right door is very close to screw heads but doesn't touch.

Yay looks awesome!! Good job on the install. Really smart dropping it down a bit. I hope you love it as much as I do ;Happy

 

[Impala67]

Lol the cat supervisor, had to make sure you did it correctly lol

 

[rmorris_14]

Lol the cat supervisor, had to make sure you did it correctly lol

Lol I thought the same thing

 

[R33FDr3amer]

Lol the cat supervisor, had to make sure you did it correctly lol

Yeah he was making sure we didn't ruin it haha he's been a little sassy with us cuz I've had lots of boxes/deliveries for the tank and there's things in "his living room" that are in his way! Pretty sure he will love it when it's all done and up and running

Yay looks awesome!! Good job on the install. Really smart dropping it down a bit. I hope you love it as much as I do ;Happy

Thanks again! I would have never thought to do this if you hadn't suggested it! It's going to look so much better not having a mess of chords laying in the back and it's super cool to be able to kill the switch on 1 individual thing. ;Woot

 

[rmorris_14]

Yeah he was making sure we didn't ruin it haha he's been a little sassy with us cuz I've had lots of boxes/deliveries for the tank and there's things in "his living room" that are in his way! Pretty sure he will love it when it's all done and up and running


Thanks again! I would have never thought to do this if you hadn't suggested it! It's going to look so much better not having a mess of chords laying in the back and it's super cool to be able to kill the switch on 1 individual thing. ;Woot

Yass!!!!