Re-locating Tank

[zhewitt04]

I have a 150 i am moving into a stock tank in the garage. I am refinishing my hardwood floors and it has to move. I have gave away all fish and coral minus stuff attached to the live rock (exnia and gsp). I am jsut curious the best way to do this since i am going to have to disturb my sand bed. Just looking for some advise and guidence. Also... Thanks

[reefcleaners]

move the rocks into buckets, and discard the sand and get a new sand bed. discard all the water and start with a new batch. Add sand first, then pour water over a bucket lid (to reduce coudiness) over the sand. Add your rock back in again, and then wait for the tank to settle before restocking. Good luck with the move!

[zhewitt04]

Ok so just through the rock in the stock tank. Get rid of the sand and buy a new sand bed when I start the tank back up?

[FutureBoyGenius]

I have moved a similar tank before. I have never heard of discarding all of the water and sand, can you please elaborate on the reasoning? I can understand discarding the sand because of hidden detritus causing a cycle, but why all of the water too?

[zhewitt04]

I didn't catch that part. I assumed i wanted to keep the water. Please elaborate reefcleaner!
Thanks

[SecretiveFish]

If I was needing to move that tank, I would probably try to keep 75% of the water, clean out the sand as best as possible, and move the tank putting most of the old sand back in with some new sand. Maybe if you have a DSB you need to boil the old sand or something to kill off the bacteria?

No matter what you do even if you replace the sand, I think you will cause a mini-cycle.

[zhewitt04]

I agree a mini cycle will happen but i am not worried since there will be no real coral in there except GSP and Exnia. That stuff is bulletproof anyways.