pashari
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....I currently have the following set-up -
60 gal tank - FOWLR (about 70 lbs). Tank well established and 3.5 y/o.
Currently I have:
about 10 blue legged hermits
1 emerald crab (although I haven't seen him in awhile)
1 decorator crab
3 turbo snails.
1 cleaner shrimp
1 yellow tang
1 clown
1 psudochromis
1 mandarin goby
1 yellow butterfly (although I don't think this is the correct name for the fish)
We will be redoing our floors in the next few months - switching from carpet to hardwood - which will require me to move the tank for a few days and then move it back. I'm not worried about much except my mandarin. I have an ample supply of 'pods for my Mandarin and he is doing just great. I'm not sure what would be the best way of moving everything and housing everything while the floors are being done and still keep my tank "cycled" and all the little 'pods happy and abundant for my mandarin.
It will, at the very minimum, require that the tank be down for two or three days. Okay, so I get a huge plastic garbage pail and load it all up with my LR, fish, inverts & water. Make sure I have good circulation.
Move the tank into the kitchen. Then what? Move everything back into the tank only to move it all again back into the livingroom three days later? If I leave everything in the garbage pail for the three days how do I maintain my substrate (which is CC and just teeming with life). Just add 20 or 30 gallons of freshly mixed water and circulate it?
Is this the best option? Any other ideas?
Thanks.
lisa
60 gal tank - FOWLR (about 70 lbs). Tank well established and 3.5 y/o.
Currently I have:
about 10 blue legged hermits
1 emerald crab (although I haven't seen him in awhile)
1 decorator crab
3 turbo snails.
1 cleaner shrimp
1 yellow tang
1 clown
1 psudochromis
1 mandarin goby
1 yellow butterfly (although I don't think this is the correct name for the fish)
We will be redoing our floors in the next few months - switching from carpet to hardwood - which will require me to move the tank for a few days and then move it back. I'm not worried about much except my mandarin. I have an ample supply of 'pods for my Mandarin and he is doing just great. I'm not sure what would be the best way of moving everything and housing everything while the floors are being done and still keep my tank "cycled" and all the little 'pods happy and abundant for my mandarin.
It will, at the very minimum, require that the tank be down for two or three days. Okay, so I get a huge plastic garbage pail and load it all up with my LR, fish, inverts & water. Make sure I have good circulation.
Move the tank into the kitchen. Then what? Move everything back into the tank only to move it all again back into the livingroom three days later? If I leave everything in the garbage pail for the three days how do I maintain my substrate (which is CC and just teeming with life). Just add 20 or 30 gallons of freshly mixed water and circulate it?
Is this the best option? Any other ideas?
Thanks.
lisa
