Tank Move

Huskymaniac · Feb 14, 2018

So I am going to be moving my reefer xxl 750 into my office. Kind of a pain as it was just setup 2 months ago. I know, I know. Currently the tank is in my living room and we are going to be redoing our kitchen due to an unforseen leak in the bathroom upstairs that basically ruined my house. The tank will never survivie the renovation as the kitchen and living room are basically one. Anyways i am not concerned about the fish and coral. Moving them should be a breeze. Its the sand bed that has me concerned. A new sand bed will cloud the water and probablly kill everything. Do you think since the tank has only been up and running for 2 months I can use the current sand?

hijinks7 · Feb 14, 2018

You'd be fine using the current sand as its not old enough to poise a big enough problem if it got stirred up a bit on a move.

Huskymaniac · Feb 14, 2018

The problem is the sand is going to have to come out of the tank. I have about 250 pounds. The reefer xxl weighs about 400 pounds empty. I actually have to hire a moving company to move the tank down a flight of stairs.

lucky7 · Feb 14, 2018

You running a seriously deep sand bed or what? 250 pounds in that tank is insane

cmcoker · Feb 14, 2018

Granted I only had 60lbs of sand, but my reefer 250 sprung a leak 6 months in. I used several of the small red sea blue buckets to siphon the sand into, their about 1.5g buckets. I placed that bucket into a 5g and let the water overflow until the 5g was full. Pulled small bucket out, dumped water repeat. The last of the sand that was left, I used a scoop to remove.
Maybe you could scale it up. 5g bucket in a brute trashcan.
I had a little cloudiness for a day when I replaced the sand but letting the tank water flush the sand definitely helped.