Tank move and substrate

[pells61]

I have a 200 gal that I am breaking down from my school i teach at and transporting the livestock to my home for the summer, tank stays and all livestock goes into two 58gl tanks at the house. I have a 150 lb or so of aragonite sand in it that I vacuum every water change as best i can so its clean... ish so i really do not know what to do with it. Should I ...

A) clean it out and transport it home and reuse it in its temporary home.
I hear I will be running the risk of phosphates leaching into my system

B) Leave it in the tank and let the tank keep some amount of water it is. This water will not be maintained at all so evaporation, temp swings, ect will happen

Or

C) dump it
I barely keep this wonderful tank running on a shoe string budget so replacing it will be an issue

If anyone has any other ideas i am all ears.

Also, on that note I have a naso tang that I have no idea what to do with. Any one have any room at the inn? Can you board fish for a summer ?!?!?

 

[pells61]

we have 7 or so collinies of LPS and a some miscellaneous softies, we also have a very large Haddon anemone. As for fish we have 3 clowns, 2 cardinalfish, green chromis, powder brown , blue hippo, and a naso tang. I will transport with 5 gallon buckets and 35 gallon brute containers. we are going to do the transfer over time. I plan on starting up the two tanks at my house soon, they are both linked to a common sump. I will have that running with LR and a blend of water from the current tank.

 

[pells61]

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Haddon is for sale if any one wants to take it, 75$ or OBO also trade.

 

[pells61]

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[SwiftysReef]

I would say take it out and rinse it and store in buckets till ready next year. Me personally would probably leave in the tank with little bit of water and clean the hell out of it before u start the tank up again. But I'm a procrastinator .

 

[pells61]

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[pells61]

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[pells61]

For the most part we work off of donation to the high school, we got the tank originally that way.

This is the before we moved it to the high school picture

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[SwiftysReef]

Where r u located I could house the naso if u wanted

 

[SwiftysReef]

Oh and don't mind the 90 gal in signature I have a 200 deep dimensions now with plenty of swimming room for him