Moving plan - comments and suggestions please!

[jgvergo]

I will be moving my 1.5 years old, 115 gallon system in a month. My situation is a little unusual because I will sell my current house on August 11th and move into my new place about a month later. My LFS (The Complete Aquarium in Mt. Kisco) has agreed to house my corals and fish (thanks Bill!!!) while the rest of my furniture is in storage. Here is my plan:

7/22 - I will re-plumb my system. I currently have my sump in my basement, one floor below the DT. I will re-plumb it so the sump will be in the cabinet below the DT.

8/5 - All livestock and live rock (DT and refugium) get transported to the LFS. I will not save the sand, although I have a very nice crop of baby Nassarius snails that I hate to see go

8/6 - Break down and clean all the equipment

8/9 - All equipment goes into storage

8/20 - 9/2 - Set up system at my new place and get it running w/out any sand or livestock; Add new sand.

9/9 - Retrieve my rock, corals and fish from the LFS and re-introduce them to the new tank.

One question I have relates to cycling the tank once it's set up at my new house. I'm *assuming* (dangerous, I know) that the live rock will contain enough bacteria for the new tank to by immediately cycled.

Comments/suggestions?

 

[leahfiish]

As long as the live rock stays wet it should be okay but I would add some bottled bacteria to be on the safe side.

Make sure you plan time for making new RODI and saltwater. And I'd recommend reintroducing the fish and corals slowly if possible, not all at once

 

[jgvergo]

As long as the live rock stays wet it should be okay but I would add some bottled bacteria to be on the safe side.

Make sure you plan time for making new RODI and saltwater. And I'd recommend reintroducing the fish and corals slowly if possible, not all at once

Here are my current fish. In what order should I reintroduce them? How long between each one?

Powder Blue Tang
One Spot Foxface
Ocellaris clowns (2)
6 line wrasse
Fire gobys (2)
Coral Beauty
Flame angle
Cleaner shrimp (2)
Blood red shrimp

 

[leahfiish]

Shrimp, firefish, Clownfish, angels, foxface, tangs, six line. I would spread it out across a month if you can but some people will do it faster. It's important to make sure you have enough biological filtration to support the fish load, since it may be disrupted in the move.

 

[jgvergo]

Shrimp, firefish, Clownfish, angels, foxface, tangs, six line. I would spread it out across a month if you can but some people will do it faster. It's important to make sure you have enough biological filtration to support the fish load, since it may be disrupted in the move.

Did you pick that order based on the aggression and territoriality of the fish? Would it make any difference if the PBT and OSF are both much bigger that the 6-line?