Moving Fish Out To Move Live Rock

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xRage10

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I can't seem to get my live rock to look good... at all :nilly:

Part of this reason is for the fish in the aquarium. While I try to move my rock, I either can't get them to stay away from the rock, or they cower in a corner and look extremely stressed out. So here's the big question.

Would it be a decent idea to move the fish into plastic tub with a piece or two of live rock and filtration for a day or two while moving my live rock around and leveling the sand? Or would that just stress the fish out even more than I think I already am? Fish include two damsels, a gold head sleeper goby, percula clown, firefish, one spot foxface and a sailfin tang. All fish are small at the moment (tang is biggest at probably 4" long) so don't know if that effects any answers I might get.
 
Fish arent dumb, they will move out of the way as you move the rocks. Catching the fish and then releasing them back into the tank would cause more stress then you shoving your hand in the tank and ratteling stuff around.
 
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