moving plan critique please

[turbo2oh]

I'm planning to move my 29g hopefully tomorrow, about a 30 min drive (and I only have my 4door civic to work with). I moved the rest of my place over a week ago and have been putting the tank off, but driving up there to feed the fish is getting old fast. I realize this is a rather small scale move but I would still like advice.

Anyway, my plan is to use a large rubbermaid container siphon most of the tank water into it, then move the rocks into it, I'm hoping this will be enough water to completely submerge the rocks in the rubbermaid container.

I also plan to ditch my sandbed completely and start fresh, rather than risk stirring it up. Its not a DSB just the sand from the TBS package, which was always a little too chunky for my taste anyway. Should I bother saving some of this to seed the new one or not bother? Also any suggestions on where/what type of sand I should buy? I remember reading it before but I've been unable to use the search functionality.

Also what should I do with my inverts/fish? Will they be ok to move in the rubbermaid with the potential shifting rocks? Or should I use some other type of container?

Thanks, and all advice/lessons learned are appreciated!

 

[PoukieBear]

Your plan sounds good.

I would save a cup of the old sand to kick start the new stuff that you get.

And yes, you should put the fish in a seperat container, just in case.

 

[LA-Lawman]

sounds good to me. keep about 1-2lbs of sand. pish and corals in seperate buckets and keep at least half of the water....

good luck

 

[turbo2oh]

Im also starting to think about how am I going to have enough water to cover all my rock/coral and not have the container weigh as much as the tank? I'm planning to use one of these(thanks google images):

I also don't have any new water mixed at my new place..I suppose I should do that first.

 

[kokxy]

I moved my 120 SPS tank 3 weeks ago and lost nothing during the transfer. Moved it 30 miles to my residence now. Took all day to do so, 9am-5pm. Your plan sounds good, I used approx. ten 18 gal rubbermaids and stored all the tank water I could into 5 gal jugs. I also had new salt water stored at home, approx 50 gaL. I saved approx. 10-20 lbs of old sand to seed my new sand. I purchased the Aragalive oolitic sand then placed seeded sand on top before adding water. all fish, inverts, corals were placed in seperate containers. I had no cycle or diatom bloom at all. Try to round up any powerheads-heaters for containers. Good luck...hope all goes well!

 

[turbo2oh]

Wow, I hope mine doesn't take nearly that long, but glad to hear it went well. I hope the water temp/lack of water movement is ok for the 20min drive. I think I do need to mix some saltwater to have ready though and maybe look into buying some smaller containers instead of 1 big one.

 

[hyperfocal]

Are you planning on refilling the tank with the same water used to transport the live rock in? I wouldn't, I think it'd be better to have 30 gallons of freshly mixed water there waiting for you (complete with a heater & powerhead in the container).