justinx
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Well . . . I havent been around much latley because I was in the process of moving and dont have the internet hooked up yet at the new place. But I can still get on here at work.
Anyway . . . as I am sure you can imagine, I had to move my tank. Boy I tell you . . . never want to do that again! So let me tell all of you just how things went for me.
I started out by setting up a new tank in the new apt. with fresh sand in the bottom and let it settle out in a couple inches of RO water. Drained off the excess and let it sit. So the new tank is now ready and waiting to be filled at the new place. So I go over to the old place to try and get as much sand as I can to seed the new stuff. Now the tank has to be completely out by sunday, and at this point it is about 11:00 on friday night. No big deal right?
So I get to the old place where the tank is and I start to move some stuff out of the way to get to the sand. I wanted to seed the DSB in the new tank ahead of time so that it woould settle and I could then see where I was placing things. So I am moving stuff and I have the canopy off and I am using the tank as a rest for my arm. No pressure, but it is just resting there. Then, my shoe is wet . . . what the #@$%! The seam split and water was pouring out . . . . near the bottom of the tank!
ALL RIGHT EVERYBODY OUT! ITS TIME TO GO!!!! Fourtunately I have buckets and bags there waiting for the next day, but all is going right now. I bagged all the corals, the fish, and caught as much water as I could in the buckets, stuck the LR in the buckets, set the fish and coral bags into boxes and loaded up in the car. It is now 12:30.
I get to the new place, dump the LS into the tank, spread it out and arrange my rockwork. I then start pouring in the water back into the tank. I cant see anything because as you can imagine, the tank clouded over because of the sand but there was nothing I could do. So I just put all the corals back into the tank on the bottom and far enough apart that they wouldnt sting eachother. The fish get dumped back in along with my serpent star, all of which were not to be seen again for a couple days because of all the silt.
But the water temp is down to 75! Not that bad, but I usually keep it around 80. The heater and the PH's are back at the old place. But no real big hurry because all the livestock is back at the new tank. So I go get the heater and PH's and I am on my way back. Now keep in mind that I live in a suburb of Detroit. There are no woods or forrests or anything within miles of my house. I live near a huge mall and shopping area. So I am driving down Novi Rd. near 9 mile (for those of you from this area) when all of a sudden BAM!!! I just hit a freaking DEER! Oh my . . . . what just happened I am thinking. Then the deer gets up and runs off into someones yard. Thanks goodness I didnt have my livestock with me on that trip or it would have been all over the car!
All in all it really wasnt that bad, but I dont want to have to do it again. But almost everything survived. There was no ammonia spike as of 48 hrs later. i will check when I get home. The only casualty was a single zoanthid polyp which got buried in the old sand in the old tank and I forgot about it
I saw it the next day and it was hard as a rock. Otherwise, everything made the transition well, and to be totally honest, I like my rock set up MUCH MUCH more than it was before. It is a more efficient set up with coral placement etc. There are more caves for the fish, I just hope that there is enought flow underneath them.
Just thought I would share.
Justin
Anyway . . . as I am sure you can imagine, I had to move my tank. Boy I tell you . . . never want to do that again! So let me tell all of you just how things went for me.
I started out by setting up a new tank in the new apt. with fresh sand in the bottom and let it settle out in a couple inches of RO water. Drained off the excess and let it sit. So the new tank is now ready and waiting to be filled at the new place. So I go over to the old place to try and get as much sand as I can to seed the new stuff. Now the tank has to be completely out by sunday, and at this point it is about 11:00 on friday night. No big deal right?
So I get to the old place where the tank is and I start to move some stuff out of the way to get to the sand. I wanted to seed the DSB in the new tank ahead of time so that it woould settle and I could then see where I was placing things. So I am moving stuff and I have the canopy off and I am using the tank as a rest for my arm. No pressure, but it is just resting there. Then, my shoe is wet . . . what the #@$%! The seam split and water was pouring out . . . . near the bottom of the tank!
ALL RIGHT EVERYBODY OUT! ITS TIME TO GO!!!! Fourtunately I have buckets and bags there waiting for the next day, but all is going right now. I bagged all the corals, the fish, and caught as much water as I could in the buckets, stuck the LR in the buckets, set the fish and coral bags into boxes and loaded up in the car. It is now 12:30.
I get to the new place, dump the LS into the tank, spread it out and arrange my rockwork. I then start pouring in the water back into the tank. I cant see anything because as you can imagine, the tank clouded over because of the sand but there was nothing I could do. So I just put all the corals back into the tank on the bottom and far enough apart that they wouldnt sting eachother. The fish get dumped back in along with my serpent star, all of which were not to be seen again for a couple days because of all the silt.
But the water temp is down to 75! Not that bad, but I usually keep it around 80. The heater and the PH's are back at the old place. But no real big hurry because all the livestock is back at the new tank. So I go get the heater and PH's and I am on my way back. Now keep in mind that I live in a suburb of Detroit. There are no woods or forrests or anything within miles of my house. I live near a huge mall and shopping area. So I am driving down Novi Rd. near 9 mile (for those of you from this area) when all of a sudden BAM!!! I just hit a freaking DEER! Oh my . . . . what just happened I am thinking. Then the deer gets up and runs off into someones yard. Thanks goodness I didnt have my livestock with me on that trip or it would have been all over the car!
All in all it really wasnt that bad, but I dont want to have to do it again. But almost everything survived. There was no ammonia spike as of 48 hrs later. i will check when I get home. The only casualty was a single zoanthid polyp which got buried in the old sand in the old tank and I forgot about it
I saw it the next day and it was hard as a rock. Otherwise, everything made the transition well, and to be totally honest, I like my rock set up MUCH MUCH more than it was before. It is a more efficient set up with coral placement etc. There are more caves for the fish, I just hope that there is enought flow underneath them.Just thought I would share.
Justin
