Moving 24 gallon to 40 gallon, question.

[josvanmeer]

Hello Reefers,

I am wanting to move my 24 gallon setup and livestock to a 40 gallon. The 40 gallon is ready to go wet. I have new dry rock in there because whatever is in the 24 gallon is not gonna be enough to fill it up but I was planning to move the established rock in there on top of that. We are talking about roughly 20lbs of liverock and 15lbs of new dry rock.

Since I am moving my current livestock and coral to a new tank, the only thing changing is new sand and some new dry rock, do I need to take extra steps before just moving them, or should I cycle the tank first in its current state first with the new dry rock before making the move with the livestock?

Any tips here would be much appreciated.

 

[brandon429]

you can move it, 15 lbs of live rock carries a fish bioload far beyond your current levels, without ramp up.

*see this recent move, exactly what you are planning:

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Hey guys wasn’t sure where to add this question. I have a 150g cube that I’m moving into a 65g jbj aio. I currently have 40 lbs of new live sand and 30 gallons of salt water in the jbj. Can I safely add the rest of the water from the 150g, live rock and live stock into the jbj? Or will this...

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the most important part is cloudlessness; have your new sandbed whatever source rinsed 100% clean before use. add dry rocks uncycled if you want/neutral impact except to possible nutrient loading if they cast off bits or leach phosphate. not a cycle or bacterial issue. its not that the method sometimes works with variation; its that it 100% works or macna conventions couldn't start on time.

I myself have never bothered to cycle a reef tank. for 20 yrs if I set up a pico reef, it was buy coralline live rock from the pet store, carry home with some frags, install cloudless, begin reef take pics system does not die and behaves the same from day 1 to day 3000