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I've got a bit of a project to do - swapping two tanks around.

Can people give me an idea of how long they think it might take to complete the task, could it be an evening/four hour job, or are we talking in excess of six hours here?!

This is the schedule -

Drain 4', bag fish.
Remove sand and rocks.

Remove + store plants from 2'.
Drain and bag fish.
Remove substrate, add to bucket and mix with new substrate 'ingredients'.

Add new substrate to 4', top with sand
Half fill with water,
Plant.
Add rest of water, add fish, fix filter.

Totally clean out 2' tank from mucky substrate to clean -
Add sand and rocks,
Fill and add fish etc.

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For that ENTIRE project (since sand is involved), I would expect that you're looking at an all-day type thing...aka, more than 4 hours...I'd look around 6 hours as a good estimate...

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Hmm.. ok.. I think that cleaning out the smaller tank in readiness for the purely sand substrate to be put in will take a bit of faffing about. Perhaps I should try to start early teatime and hope its done by midnight. Little hands which like to help invariably slow things down

i recently moved and had to take along a 4' and a 3' tank. i took the two on two separate days, but it only took about 1 - 1.5 hours to take each down (including cleaning, etc) and another hour to set each back up again. so i think you're looking at about 4 - 5 hours total to take down, clean, and re-set the 2 tanks up

Malaikah
I would put a full day aside to do all that and the day before get every thing ready just to make sure you have every thing you require on hand.

Good luck with a big job.

Keith

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Mal I think it's a full day job too I hate to be pessimistic but I think that's a big big job.

Also if you start in the evening and go till midnight be careful that you have everything like Keith said. You can't just pop out to the shops if you need a whatsit at 11pm.

Ok guys, thanks for the advice, I will pick a day to do it and start at midday rather than teatime.. I'll post back here and say how long it took, and no doubt will say "It took waaaaayy longer than I thought it would!" ! ! !

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