Tank help ( Shutting down and moving to new one )

Thoax · Jan 6, 2020

Hey need some advice, just got back from a 2 week vacation and during it my apex disconnect and my fish sitter was away and never came to the house all fish are good and i didn’t really have any corals in the tank yet, but looks like the skimmer and food went nuts so massive algae bloom.

I’m looking at shutting down the tank as I have a new 200g tank arriving next week this one is 100g what would you recommend I do with the rock ( Clean it and get it ready for the new tank) ? I will be putting the same rock into the new tank but i need to figure out the best way to get ride of all the crap on them. Fist time doing a move to a new tank like this, main prob is the new tank needs to go in the same spot as the current tank. Any help would be awesome

Also when the new tanks arrives i might not be able to get it into the house right away and it might need to stay in the garage for a few days my only concern is i live in Canada and its cold out will this effect the silicon at all?

Tuffyyyyy · Jan 6, 2020

I would just move it all over together and throw in some Dr. Tims/Fritz.

Dragon52 · Jan 6, 2020

It should be fine sitting in the garage. I would try to clean as much off the rocks as possible before adding to tank. I would add Dr Tims also.

W1ngz · Jan 6, 2020

Since you already have to make a bunch of new water, I'd scrub off what you can with a firm plastic bristle brush while it's in the old tank, and let the existing filter sock or floss pull it out of the water column and siphon what settles on the bottom. Dump most of the old water, but save 20-30 gal so you end up doing something of an acclimation as you slowly fill the new tank.

If your garage is just cool, it should be fine but I wouldn't allow a brand new tank to sit in temps below freezing for any length of time. January is a weird month and it's rarely *just* cold, there's often a few extreme cold and thaw cycles. Too many freeze-thaw cycles like you can sometimes get this time of year could cause problems.