reef moving options

[Sweetaz]

I am getting ready to transfer my office reef into a new tank at home. Current tank is an 80g mixed reef 1 year old, sps, lps, one clam and one BTA. Only 3 fish. New tank is a 100g SCA. I'm using the lights and doser from the 80 on the new 100. Both are bare bottom. Here is my plan:

Fill the new tank with new water, get it to temp and circulating. Move a few of the rocks from the old tank that don't have corals on them into the new tank. Let it settle for a couple weeks. Move a few of the low demand corals over to the new tank, put a cheap, under-powered led fixture I have laying around on it, see how they do. Here's the tricky part, moving the sps, lps, clam etc and fish I think will have to all happen at once, because I only have the one doser and light fixture, and I can't catch the fish until everything else is out.

Thoughts?

 

[brandon429]

make sure zero detritus transfers to the new tank, see this thread as well as all links in it for a perfect move. swishing your rock in saltwater before moving it (to cast out detritus) to the new tank

use all new water in the new tank, and your old rocks. That will skip cycle on the new setup just fine.

 

[brandon429]

Relocated tank

we have been studying this particular condition Dan since 2015 above it is prevented by cleaning deeper than we have ever been permitted to clean right when your reef is taken apart for the move; ironically that's the only safe way to deal with stored up nutrients, by a form of reef aquarium...

www.reef2reef.com

you have the ability to make a seamless transfer using those examples.

 

[Sweetaz]

make sure zero detritus transfers to the new tank, see this thread as well as all links in it for a perfect move. swishing your rock in saltwater before moving it (to cast out detritus) to the new tank

use all new water in the new tank, and your old rocks. That will skip cycle on the new setup just fine.

Thanks for the advice, after a quick peek at those threads it looks like I have a big advantage here going from bare bottom tank to another bare bottom tank. So you think I should not use any of the old water in the new tank?

 

[brandon429]

you can if you like since the old water wont have suspended waste or cloud. we just show how if you want all new water that too is ok. we built up lots of patterns over the years which are handy predictions for knowing outcomes before the move.