Transferring to new tank

[frostmatt21]

Hey all! I've been a long time surfer of r2r but finally getting around to posting.

I currently have a 60g cube and am having way too many problems with my hob skimmer. So, I decided to purchase the nuvo 50g lagoon aio. My current setup has been up and running for 1.5 years and I want to transfer everything over. Do I run the risk of going through a mini cycle using the old water, sand, and rock?

 

[FlexingFishSticks]

Welcome to R2R!

 

[frostmatt21]

Thank you!

 

[brandon429]

here is how to 100% avoid a mini cycle thread doing this job:

 

[brandon429]

Official Sand Rinse and Tank Transfer thread

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you deep clean the system in between tanks, we move no cloud whatsoever, in the rocks or sand.

sand is cleaned in tap water, then ro, cloudless and ready for use (whether its new or old doesnt matter, pre rinse in tap, cloudless, then ro, then ready for use)

and rocks are swished out in saltwater to jet out their waste.

cloudless = no cycle.

pre rinsing harms no sand, thats 36 pages of tap rinses and hundreds of reefs.

you can find threads where no deep cleaning was done, and a full reef cloudy was moved.

but you can't find two hundred of them working out to that same degree. clean = skip cycle, we show.

no bottle bac needed

no ammonia testing needed, cloudless transfer means skip cycle.

 

[brandon429]

the irony is that what causes the crash/mini cycle is opposite of what we used to be taught


regardless of the age of the tank we should clean them, since cleaning is shown above to be restorative vs harmful in any way. 4 mos or in my case a 14 yr old system cleaned for the fourth time just to join the fun on the last page.


I love it when reef truths have to be reversed to get good results.

the bacteria still stick to any surface we rinse is the trick. reef surfaces are too rough, grippy, to let go of bioslicks just because we ran some cool tap water across the grains to evacuate all forms of clouding: harmless new sand silt or aged-bed mixed waste proteins in various stages of decay, those are dangerous to upwell and are also great invader feed.

If deep cleaning a reef is harmful, ever, then we'd want to save that as last resort.

but if its helpful, regenerative, unclogging, oxygen-boosting, ORP-resetting, waste-evacuating, precision invader removal access and lifespan-boosting, we'd want to do it at the first possible interval, and repeat whenev.

*if someone has a picture of an awesome, undisturbed reef to show why not rinsing is best that's going to be a nice looking tank agreed. this is a move transfer, with risk, and taking detritus out of the move equation is total control of risk. I have grown to like the looks of a clean bed but knurly, coral-topped rocks above it full of coralline and not green hair algae. post-rinse reefs show the strongest coral extension the keepers have seen we can see in feedback and pics.