will5

My 5.5g El Natural is a year old now and I now have to move come August 1st. So the three white clouds, two amano's, and all the plants will be bagged up on the day of the move. Then all of the water will be drained and the tank will be moved as is. My soil is capped by flourite and I am wondering if the soil will foul when it dries for those couple of hours? A little info about my soil. When I started my tank I never had a ammonia spike that I could measure. So here is the deal not only do I have to worry about my soil going bad and loosing the current live stock but I have to also add about 15-20 rcs that are coming from my ten gallon that I have to break down because I have no room for it in the new place.

So problem/s should I be expecting and is there anything I can do first? I could also just break down the 10 gallon for and move the shrimp over pre-move and get that step out of the way. I am at a loss whit all of this.

wkndracer

Your post said dry for only a couple of hours and unless it was a typo that its a 5.5g tank.
Even at 55g size it can be done. I dropped the water level to the gravel line removing all hard scape and live stock to 5g. buckets. Moved 26 mile and set the tank back up the same day.
Never a drop spilled and no losses. The longest move was about a hundred miles and the tank never had the substrate removed, done it four times in twenty years same tank.