rotarygeek
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Im moving my 55 gallon to my place from my dads house on thursday and i have some questions. I have a shallow sandbed right now, made up of black argonite sand, and I really need to avoid a cycle becuase of not really having a place to put fish till it finishes. So what im thinking of doing is......
1. Take down tank and put all living things in a rubber tote with lights and water and all LR.
2. Paint the back black
3. Reinforce stand to spread weight more evenly since its a pretty old trailer im moving it into.
4. Move everything over to my new place and set it up with new water. Ill also be upgrading from a 10 gallon sump to a 20 long and it will have about 2 inches of sand in the middle section.
This is sand that has been sitting from a tank a friend tore down a couple months ago and has been dry since then.
5. Take fish/inverts/corals/LR to the new house and set it up without any sand in the DT at all. Just LR.
6. Slowly add my old sand that has been thoroughly cleaned to the sand in my sump to make a dsb in my sump.
I guess i dont really have any questions besides asking if anybody has any suggestions or helpfull tips. Just wanted to put this out there and see if im missing anything or if i have something wrong. I want this to go ask smooth as possible without any loss of fish at all. Oh yeah, would using the old dry sand like that cause a spike of anything? Also, i plan on drying out my current sand after cleaning and slowly adding it over the course of a week or two.
1. Take down tank and put all living things in a rubber tote with lights and water and all LR.
2. Paint the back black
3. Reinforce stand to spread weight more evenly since its a pretty old trailer im moving it into.
4. Move everything over to my new place and set it up with new water. Ill also be upgrading from a 10 gallon sump to a 20 long and it will have about 2 inches of sand in the middle section.
This is sand that has been sitting from a tank a friend tore down a couple months ago and has been dry since then.
5. Take fish/inverts/corals/LR to the new house and set it up without any sand in the DT at all. Just LR.
6. Slowly add my old sand that has been thoroughly cleaned to the sand in my sump to make a dsb in my sump.
I guess i dont really have any questions besides asking if anybody has any suggestions or helpfull tips. Just wanted to put this out there and see if im missing anything or if i have something wrong. I want this to go ask smooth as possible without any loss of fish at all. Oh yeah, would using the old dry sand like that cause a spike of anything? Also, i plan on drying out my current sand after cleaning and slowly adding it over the course of a week or two.