Moving my tank and changing cc to dsb?

[avbryce1]

I am moving this weekend and I thought it would be a good time to change my cc to a dsb
my plan is this:
first, I am going to hit ***** for a new 10 gal and some sand 1 bag of livesand and a couple bags of tropical play sand
next , I am going to syphon all of the water from my tank into 2 seven gallon rubbermaid containers that will hold my livestock for the move.
question: should I use the new tank to put the sand in or should I just dump the cc out of the old tank and put the sand in it
last I am going to trickle the water back into the tank (to try and keep the water from getting too stirred up then slowley start putting my lr and livestock into the tank
also i was planning to use a few cups full of the cc to help seed the livesand
comments and suggestions please

 

[ssweet1]

I would purchase as much live sand as you can. The tank might cycle with uncured sand. I am not an expert but I do know that you definately need to keep your water, syphon as much as you can before disturbing the CC bed. Remember to acclimate fish and corals if the temperature changes while your moving, I forgot to do that and I lost a pipe organ coral and my frogspawn is just barely hanging in there because I forgot about re-acclimating them. Carrie

 

[avbryce1]

yea thats what I was worried about. I wonder if there is anything elce I can do to avoid a cycle.
my dad's truck has a power converter in it so I'll be ablt to plug in a heater and a powerhead

also its only like a 5 min trip

 

[cveverly]

I just moved all my stuff from a 75 to a 125 and this is how I did it. I had no losses or stress that I can see. I did have more time than you but this is what I did.
Set up the new tank with established live sand and new sand. I was lucky and found someone that was shutting down a tank and I bought their live sand. Seeded new sand with the live sand.
I used very little of my old water. I just made up fresh water and added salt. Add saltwater to tank and bring up to temp. I did this the day before so the water could stabilize. May be better to use old water but I did not do it that way.
One advantage I had was an established fluid bed filter and refugium. I transferred both of them to the new tank and added live rock. I tried to get the temp and salinity as close to the old tank as I could.
Put all livestock in totes using the old water. Tricked water from new tank into totes holding livestock. After about 2 hours I transferred livestock to the new tank with no lighting until the next day.
It was an all day job but I had no losses. To my surprise I did not see a spike in ammonia, nitrite or nitrate. I am a firm believer in the combination of refugium, fluid bed filter and live rock. My 75 was way over stocked and it did very well.