Moving aquarium, questions

[racingtiger03]

I may need to move my aquarium in a month or so. I know I need to hold my same water, rocks, and sand. Also should I keep the sand in a bucket with water from the tank?
I also have an anemone in the tank.. what is the safest way to transport it? Bag the rock it's on?
How hard is this to do without losing livestock? I have a brain coral, digitata, GSP, and two others that I'm not too worried about, mostly the nem and fish, but I know how to handle the fish.
Will I have to re-acclimate all the livestock before re-introducing them into the tank?
Also I have one thing I am a bit worried about losing, and it is by far the best algae eater in my tank (glass wise at least). It is a snail that I can not ID. It is very much FLAT and is about 1.5" long and skinny like a pencil. It stays in the sand during the day and eats algae off the glass all night. What is the best way to get him out? As well as the other snails? I'm afraid to try and yank them off the glass they...
Any other things I may have missed or tips for this move in general are highly appreciated. The drive after breaking the tank down will be about one hour.. then add setup time after that.

 

[michelled]

Hi-
I was just looking for the same information because I may be moving a 90 gallon next weekend. About 7 threads down from this one (same page), there is an excellent write-up about moving. I hope this helps!
MichelleD
Originally Posted by racingtiger03
http:///forum/post/3169272
I may need to move my aquarium in a month or so. I know I need to hold my same water, rocks, and sand. Also should I keep the sand in a bucket with water from the tank?
I also have an anemone in the tank.. what is the safest way to transport it? Bag the rock it's on?
How hard is this to do without losing livestock? I have a brain coral, digitata, GSP, and two others that I'm not too worried about, mostly the nem and fish, but I know how to handle the fish.
Will I have to re-acclimate all the livestock before re-introducing them into the tank?
Also I have one thing I am a bit worried about losing, and it is by far the best algae eater in my tank (glass wise at least). It is a snail that I can not ID. It is very much FLAT and is about 1.5" long and skinny like a pencil. It stays in the sand during the day and eats algae off the glass all night. What is the best way to get him out? As well as the other snails? I'm afraid to try and yank them off the glass they...
Any other things I may have missed or tips for this move in general are highly appreciated. The drive after breaking the tank down will be about one hour.. then add setup time after that.

 

[flower]

Originally Posted by racingtiger03
http:///forum/post/3169272
I may need to move my aquarium in a month or so. I know I need to hold my same water, rocks, and sand. Also should I keep the sand in a bucket with water from the tank?
I also have an anemone in the tank.. what is the safest way to transport it? Bag the rock it's on?
How hard is this to do without losing livestock? I have a brain coral, digitata, GSP, and two others that I'm not too worried about, mostly the nem and fish, but I know how to handle the fish.
Will I have to re-acclimate all the livestock before re-introducing them into the tank?
Also I have one thing I am a bit worried about losing, and it is by far the best algae eater in my tank (glass wise at least). It is a snail that I can not ID. It is very much FLAT and is about 1.5" long and skinny like a pencil. It stays in the sand during the day and eats algae off the glass all night. What is the best way to get him out? As well as the other snails? I'm afraid to try and yank them off the glass they...
Any other things I may have missed or tips for this move in general are highly appreciated. The drive after breaking the tank down will be about one hour.. then add setup time after that.

Sand is wet and will stay wet..yes move it in a bucket. VERY heavy... because of bristle worms that sting..where un powdered gloves when digging in the sand to remove it. I have never been stung, but Cranberry (if memory serves) had a nasty pic of her hubby's finger..I said never again on handling sand barehanded...so I pass that on.
Also move the nem on it's happy rock, but most likely it will release. If it does remove the rock to prevent damage.
Don't worry about the snail...I bet you have 100's you just don't know it, if you touch it, it will play dead and just drop to the bottom of the tank. If you can scoop it up, just toss it in with the fish.
Yes acclimate all your critters to the new place.
Yes we have posted big time on moving, there are many threads....

 

[racingtiger03]

doh.. I pulled a newby move and didn't search lol. Sorry guys, I was at work and it didn't even cross my mind! Thanks for the helpful info. The nem and snails were my main concern... Sounds like those have been answered hah. Except getting the regular snails off the glass, maybe the end of a plastic spoon to touch their body so they release? I've had a few hermits try to get at them, and they just keep trucking along though... and the flat one there is no where I could touch it.

 

[racingtiger03]

I was also looking into getting a new stand for after the move.. and found a 55Gallon tank and stand w/ all accessories for about what I would be paying for a stand alone for my 29. Would this move be any different since I'll obviously be adding more base sand and rock to what I currently have?
I have seen some people recommend rinsing out the old sand.. what is the point of this? Woudln't that kill off most of the beneficial bacteria living in the sand with the freshwater?

 

[small triggers]

you do not need to rinse out your sand unless its going to be sitting for days/ a week before putting it back into the water. As far as adding new sand, it may cause a mini cycle, what i like to do is after you get everything that was in the tank acclimated and put back in the tank, id add a cup of new sand every other day and that should limit the rise in ammonia and nitrates to a tolerable level (unless you are using something like play sand that has never been in water or alive, if you are using 'live' sand that is baggeed do the cup every other day, since there is die off that occurs from sitting in the bag)

 

[racingtiger03]

I was wanting to add base sand to save on costs, but if it can be done the way you say with live sand I will go that route. The sand current sand will be sitting for no more than 5 hours and will be in water the entire time. Thanks for the info!