Upgrade tank cycle - what to do with fish

[TheXpander]

Hi all,

Upgrading from a 40l tank to a Fluval EVO.
The EVO is up and running, currently has a small piece of live rock in from my 55g display tank. I dosed ammonia to 0.2 ppm yesterday but it has not consumed this in 24hrs. The live rock which is in the 40 litre will be moved into to EVO but I feel may need to happen in order for it to be cycled properly. Obviously if I do this it will leave the fish (2 zebra clowns) and a small CUC with no filtration. I’m really not sure the best way to go about this? Any help is greatly welcomed!

 

[brandon429]

there's a better way

post a pic of your new tank we can fix you up, this is a skip cycle setup, you dont need to cycle.

Official Sand Rinse and Tank Transfer thread

If you are reading this thread to cure a tank invasion from a link I sent you, we do not need to identify your type of invasion here we do not need you to test anything at anytime regarding nitrate, phosphate etc Above all, we do not need to see a microscope slide picture of your invasion at...

www.reef2reef.com

fifty pages of tank transfers/ no cycle/ no bottle bac used/no testing for ammonia/no cycling/all skip cycles/ no ammonia dosed


*adding ammonia and testing is only for dry rock setups, never live rock ones, bc cheap non digital testers can't react well to that massive level of ammonia.


all you do is change your water in the new tank for new

add in several of the current rocks, move your stuff over, don't test. its all in the thread / 8 years running every job is the exact same on any page none differ.

 

[brandon429]

transferring reef tanks isn't something we prep/measure/await

It's something we do, the very hour we want to do it and we do it to completion and never doubt the bacteria. that's the running method for every job in the thread above.

*that thread is a mix of tank cures via sandbed rinses, tank transfers, all kinds of jobs but they all use the same rule I'm summarizing for your upcoming tank transfer.

 

[MaxM]

And if you are still scared to do above alone, add some bacteria and prime, but you don't need to.

 

[TheXpander]

Brandon you are a legend thank you.
I will change out the dosed water, add all the rock, fresh water and fish in.
thank you

 

[brandon429]

This is the trick sellers at reef conventions use

they dont use their own products/bottle bac/ to set up full display reefs with rocks, fish, and eighty grand in corals as convention displays, that stuff is for sale.

what the sellers do is move all their live rock in styrofoam boxes they don't even use water (humidity alone preserves bac just fine)

(yes some booths are intended bottle bad displays, which do work, they carry fifteen clownfish all weekend in a tank with no rock, the sales gimmick is overselling it for every condition)

they leave everyone else thinking one minute in air for live rock, you need bottle bac

cleaning your tank? might need bottle bac (specifically see the brightwell site ad)

moving tanks? def will need bottle bac.







we just didn't need any bottle bac to move all these reefs to and from the convention (unsold items and tanks are skip cycled back home, multiple times, harmless is why)---since conventions began in like 1985.

among conspiracy theories there's roswell, red team go/back of the dollar bill lol and there's why our reefing rules always lead to a purchase of bottle bac. If I find out that a bottle bac seller wrote our reef cycling rules I might have to flip out.

 

[TheXpander]

This is the trick sellers at reef conventions use

they dont use their own products/bottle bac/ to set up full display reefs with rocks, fish, and eighty grand in corals as convention displays, that stuff is for sale.

what the sellers do is move all their live rock in styrofoam boxes they don't even use water (humidity alone preserves bac just fine)

they leave everyone else thinking one minute in air for live rock, you need bottle bac

cleaning your tank? might need bottle bac (specifically see the brightwell site ad)

moving tanks? def will need bottle bac.







we just didn't need any bottle bac to move all these reefs to and from the convention (unsold items and tanks are skip cycled back home, multiple times, harmless is why)---since conventions began in like 1985.

among conspiracy theories there's roswell, red team go/back of the dollar bill lol and there's why our reefing rules always lead to a purchase of bottle bac. If I find out that a bottle bac seller wrote our reef cycling rules I might have to flip out.

Makes total sense!