OUTGREW MY TANK ALREADY HELP

[PeterB113]

Hey guys I need some help or advice on how to go about moving all my corals into a bigger tank. I started this hobby about 6months ago with a 20g long and it's already packed to the gills with corals.. I'm thinking of getting a 70g drop off tank and I don't know what I need to do, or when to move my corals. Any advice or tips are greatly appreciated. I believe I've only had success because of the help from you guys on R2R and I can't say how much I appreciate it.


My tank as of now.

 

[Stang67]

Dude just go as big as you can now. I have upgraded 3 times in as many years. It's TRUE go big or go home.

 

[PeterB113]

Dude just go as big as you can now. I have upgraded 3 times in as many years. It's TRUE go big or go home.

I don't know of any larger drop off tanks do you know any ? And I think I'm going to use my 20g tank as a frag tank. I don't really want to go over 100g

 

[PeterB113]

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Dude just go as big as you can now. I have upgraded 3 times in as many years. It's TRUE go big or go home.

I'm also VERY hesitant on dosing idk why, I've been doing water changes and everything's looking great also don't want a sump or refugium just a simple tank if that makes sense

 

[NashobaTek]

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I'm also VERY hesitant on dosing idk why, I've been doing water changes and everything's looking great also don't want a sump or refugium just a simple tank if that makes sense

You don't have to have a sump on any size of tank. I currently have a 125 with no sump, and I have plans to add a 200+ gallon which is not going to have a sump either.

 

[brandon429]

Easy transfer here

simply move it all over to any new tank all at once it will skip cycle if the sand in that tank is 1000% pre rinsed to total clarity, no cloud.

do not transfer over, nor install on top of, any unrinsed sand. Simple as that

 

[brandon429]

Read this whole thread and you’ll have a tank transfer roadmap.

Washing Sand for New Aquarium

So I'm going to be using Carib Sea Aragonite sand for the new office tank. Dry sand. The bag states that I should "Rinse well with clean water". Can I just use tap water to rinse out the sand, and then place the wet sand into the tank? I'd hate to have to use a ton of RODI water to clean the sand.

www.reef2reef.com

 

[BoxKing]

Drop off style… just build your own acrylic ledge - should cost next to nothing to make it.

 

[ClownSchool]

You don't have to have a sump on any size of tank. I currently have a 125 with no sump, and I have plans to add a 200+ gallon which is not going to have a sump either.

Yup. My first tank was a BioCube 16, so when I started reading about sumps, the number of flooding stories made me very hesitant. So, after I found a 55 gallon tank and stand, with sump, for $100, I decided to leave off the sump, use a 2X sized canister filter, 2X sized HOB protein skimmer, and HOB refugium. With a couple power heads for circulation, it’s still early in its cycling, but seems to be working really well so far....but, I don’t really plan on introducing SPS into it, either, so...,

 

[PeterB113]

Easy transfer here

simply move it all over to any new tank all at once it will skip cycle if the sand in that tank is 1000% pre rinsed to total clarity, no cloud.

do not transfer over, nor install on top of, any unrinsed sand. Simple as that

Transfer everything all at once without cycling new water??

 

[PeterB113]

Do you dose or do water changes or both?

 

[NashobaTek]

Do you dose or do water changes or both?

Nope I don't do either. I have hob filters and skimmer and I top off the tank every few days.

 

[PeterB113]

Nope I don't do either. I have hob filters and skimmer and I top off the tank every few days.

Yea same here but no skimmer