Moving?!?

[fishgurl]

At the end of the month I will be moving.... and after convincing my land lord that i do not let my fish out for walks ... Yes he did actually ask if the fist stayed in the tank or if i took them out..... (altho I am sure he was joking around... If not I think I should be worried hahaha )What is the best way to move my tanks... I have a 46gallon (with approx. 30lbs of rock (ithink) and then about a 1 1/2' sand bed) that has 3 fish then tons of crabs and a few snails.... my other tank is a 20 gallon with nothing in it but sand and 2 peices of live rock... Should I just rubber maid it.... It will also be time to do a MAJOR water change to... So wat do you think is the easiest way to do this???
Thanks

[avalanche wolf]

The way we moved all out tanks was drain them into rubbermaids about 1/2 full ( granted at the time we only had the 25g salt to worry about , all others were fresh water ) and took the water lvl in the tank down to about 1/4 of total. The tank was the last thing to leave and the first thing to get setup. Worked pretty good for us atleast.

[Phishnoob]

Make a bunch of new water before you move over at the other place. Now is a good time to ditch the substrate and start over if you have any cyano red algae.

[pyron88]

If you go to the food store they sell those 5g plastic water bottles, the kind you turn upside down in the office. There is a $7-10 dollar deposit on the empties. That's how I move my water. Rock and fish, I put in a styrofoam box I got at the LFS that they get live rock in. I put a lttle water for the fish put on the lid and scoot to where I'm going. I leave the sand and snails and crabs in the tank with a couple inches of water. This way you don't loose water and have to do a change right away. Let them settle down in the water they were in a few days and then do your change. If you can't get the styrofoam, they sell all kinds of stuff at Wall Mart, K-Mart. Like was posted above, last thing out of your old place first in the new place.