How to Move an Existing Reef Aquarium

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Sometimes it's necessary to move an existing aquarium. Watch as the Waterbox team moves the FRAG 105.4 from our corporate offices to our new studio.
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0:00 Intro
0:11 Items required to move an existing aquarium
0:30 Removing equipment from aquarium
1:20 How to drain an aquarium sump
1:59 Removing rock, coral and fish from aquarium
3:18 How to properly drain and empty an aquarium
3:49 How to unassemble Waterbox Plumbing
4:15 How to Transport aquarium and livestock safely
4:38 Importance of cleaning the overflow box
4:50 Leveling your Waterbox cabinet
5:18 How to leak test your Waterbox plumbing
5:47 How to add live sand to a Waterbox
6:15 How to re-aquascape your Waterbox
7:26 Important after move aquarium care
8:20 Frag check in

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@savisavi5432 Жыл бұрын

Would of been helpful if you’d spoke about temps, fish, keeping the rocks ok, reusing water. Basically anything other than how to physically move a tank

@Anthonym_323 3 жыл бұрын

I literally just moved my tank to a new home this weekend. Basically did everything said on this video. Except I kept my original sand and my tank did not go through a cycle at all. Everything is doing great and everything looks happy.

@WaterboxAquariums 3 жыл бұрын

That is awesome!

@milkspotscausemetospazzout6813 9 ай бұрын

Yea I was saying to myself...uh no..I'm not gonna toss my sand I have 100 pounds of Tropic Eden Live Tonga Pink Sand that I just put in there..I really like this sand.

@deenice48 3 жыл бұрын

Waterbox team makes it look so easy

@WaterboxAquariums 3 жыл бұрын

The right support (and knowledges!) can definitely make it a little easier.

@therightmindset5000 Жыл бұрын

The way she poored that bacteria mix in like a boss with no Measurement I see you😂

@digger_jon2778 Жыл бұрын

This is what I needed the anxiety of moving a tank that's been setup for 12 years is very real I'm scared to death to take this one.

@lownrangr 3 жыл бұрын

Yesterday I moved my old 10 gallon reef to the floor so I could set up my Cube 20 on the same stand and this is pretty much how I did it. I'm not sure who was stressed more, me or my corals and fish, but everyone is ok!

@WaterboxAquariums 3 жыл бұрын

We're glad to hear that everyone is okay! It can definitely be a stressful experience.

@jamesbulk3225 3 жыл бұрын

Great video

@WaterboxAquariums 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for joining us!

@bobjoachim9710 3 ай бұрын

Great video you guys I just didn’t like the fact that you were putting the rock back in before the tank was even close to filled up the whole time you were doing that all those corals and everything is being exposed to air if you had been beneficial things on there like sponges their long gone but thank you for the video. I’m going to use this advice when I move my tank in the next month.

@bethanygraham8559 3 ай бұрын

It is suggested you put your rocks in before your sand so that the aquascape is secure and can't be tipped or moved especially if you have inverts.

@Arborpress 8 ай бұрын

Waterbox Aquariums helped me a ton in setting up my first saltwater tank. I bought a used nano AIO cube for my first tank and it's lasted me 3 years before it just started to slow leak at seams. I just purchased a Waterbox 20 cube and I've been dreading the transfer thinking of all the SPS colonies I'm going to shatter and fish I'm going to stress out. 😩

@willmar2778 3 жыл бұрын

Great video and advice, I Move 5 years ago and didn't change my sand which was a mistake at the time, my tank cycle again after 3 weeks even after using Bio spiral Bacteria/30G of tank water and fresh saltwater lost a yellow Tang, Blue Tang and Rabbit Fish.

@WaterboxAquariums 3 жыл бұрын

Oh no-- so sorry to hear that! Loss is definitely the hardest part of this hobby. :(

@kiddt1999 2 жыл бұрын

About to have to move my new reef lx. It is 7 months old. I should be able to keep my sand correct? Maybe vacuum real good before?

@BlindedMind Жыл бұрын

How long will corals and fish survive in the buckets?

@Pecch Жыл бұрын

fish and corals are shipped for 1-2 days in little bags with what 1/2 a gallon of water? theyll be alright

@alaskacosplay 8 ай бұрын

The one benefit about not having corals is that, if you kept the rocks loose and movable, you can rescape the whole tank to your heart's desire. I always bring home huge live rocks from the beach in my province town and I always redo my scape so I can maximize the rocks I have to create as many hiding places as possible before I place sand in afterwards to prevent rock slides.

@AWardle18 Жыл бұрын

How would you go about upgrading a tank at the same time as a move? I will be using the same sump so I won't be able to plumb it fully until the day of. Any tips?

@joeb1906 Жыл бұрын

Did you have any issues with SPS since the new tank had no bacteria established yet

@anime_coven4017 Ай бұрын

I reuse my sand and nap from all my tanks.It's got beneficial bacteria and it even for cycling

@liammurray8502 11 ай бұрын

I disagree with not keeping the sand. You can rinse it with clean saltwarer through a filter. If you add new sand you'll start a new curing cycle which will cause a massive diatom outbreak and dinos. You may even kill off your acros. Same as adding new rock. You don't want to do it if you can avoid it. Sand can be rinsed and cleaned. The only reason I'd do new sand is if it was infested with bristleworms or something. Also, good tip, if you get a diamond goby your sand will be pristine, no gases or build up of detritus.

@Arborpress 8 ай бұрын

I'm about to transfer everything to a brand new tank and was thinking the same thing. I have a pistol shrimp + goby that are constantly overturning 80% of my sandbed and figured it wouldn't be as big of a problem vs. people who just have stagnant sand that has never even been overturned from siphon cleaning.

@mradams5455 Жыл бұрын

Hello do you use same tank water ? I have high nitrate and phosphate. So was thinking new sand and water? I have a 55 gallon tank

@jesuscolch5329 5 ай бұрын

I’m curios on what you ended your doing? I would probably have probably kept most of the original water and changed the sand

@timchampion8679 Жыл бұрын

I'm worried my starfish might starve if i don't re use some of my old sand

@JonVlogs123 3 жыл бұрын

First. :D

@WaterboxAquariums 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for joining us!

@RGMLLC Жыл бұрын

I don’t feel comfortable changing the sand because I feel like all you good bacteria is there any comments

@savisavi5432 Жыл бұрын

Yes, but you’re adding more and your sump should do most of the heavy lifting. I think the risk of ammonia pockets in the sand is greater than the risk of not having enough bacteria in the sump, on your rocks ect. And after adding beneficial bacteria out of a bottle

@robing8705 6 ай бұрын

It also depends on what the state of your sand is? I have a diamond goby and an engineer goby, they turn my sand over all the time so i'm not afraid of any pockets.