Live Rock Transfer

[Ashv5]

Hello everyone!

Although I've been in the hobby for 3 years, I finally got the chance to upgrade my system! I am currently running a 40-gallon system and upgrading to a 90 gallon (tang outgrew the old one) My live rock as of now has way too much hair algae on it and I was wondering how I should transfer it to the new system in a clean matter. I don't want another algae burst in the new system. Should I bleach the live rocks? I am kind of hesitant on bleach as I don't want to kill all of the good bacteria however there is so much ALGAE. Thanks for reading!

 

[DSEKULA]

If you don't want bleach you could do peroxide , you'll still kill off good bacteria though. If there's that much algae there's also likey po4- bound up in the rocks, I'd consider trying to minimize that as well.. what's the transfer plan? Are all your fish and coral moving over do you have a sump currently where you can seed some media for the new tank?

 

[Ashv5]

If you don't want bleach you could do peroxide , you'll still kill off good bacteria though. If there's that much algae there's also likey po4- bound up in the rocks, I'd consider trying to minimize that as well.. what's the transfer plan? Are all your fish and coral moving over do you have a sump currently where you can seed some media for the new tank?

Hello! Thanks for replying. I am transferring the fish coral everything to the new tank. I do have a sump but I am assembling/setting up the system next week. Yes I need to reduce phosphates and reduce all chances of it coming into the new tank. I hope to add a refugium in the sump as well.

 

[DSEKULA]

If you can toss a bio block in the sump and start dosing some bacteria (I use mb7 personally) you can use the block to transfer the fish but I'd give it two weeks minimum to culture up. Bag it in the old tank then open the bag underwater in the new tank. Coral are a bit harder depending on stock, anything sensitive is tough but if you keep everything stable could be fine. You could then run the new tank on the bioblock while you fix the rocks for the new tank.