Best Way To Swap Existing Tank To New One?

[simonas]

As my previous thread states I have bought a new tank a 94litre river life

I pick it up probably Wednesday night

Ineed to get everything from the tank upstairs into this tank downstairs without harming live rock, parameters and fish,corals etc

My initial plan is to buy a 5 gallon load of salty RO and heat that to the required temp and add that to the new one then drain off another 5 gallon from the tank upstairs and add that.

Then add the live rock from upstairs downstairs and scape that

Once thats done and electrics switched on in new one then drain the rest of the waterrfrom the existing one including the sand and add them all

Theoretically the transition shoudn;t take too long

the cycle wouldn't start again would it?

am I right in thinking the only dangers would be the stress of move and the stress of the cloudy water from sand disturbance on corals fish etc?

any tips would be greatly appreciated

simon

 

[Morri]

You are so early in the game its easy tbh

1. Fill bucket with tank water
2. Move live stock to bucket
3. Move LR and water to new tank
4. Move sand or add new sand (Shouls be fine sand will not have had time to build up Nitrates)
5. Move stock from bucket to new LR
6. viola done
7. Go to LFS and order a new 500Gallom tank

 

[simonas]

You are so early in the game its easy tbh

1. Fill bucket with tank water
2. Move live stock to bucket
3. Move LR and water to new tank
4. Move sand or add new sand (Shouls be fine sand will not have had time to build up Nitrates)
5. Move stock from bucket to new LR
6. viola done
7. Go to LFS and order a new 500Gallom tank

ha ha that would be the dream!!!!

If I get a new house sometime in next 12 months as planned I am going to get a 100g plus sized tank for a reef. The mrs has agreed!!! rubber stamped by the boss!!

this new tank is going to be much better with the improved lighting that I was loking at anyway plus the skimmer it has and filter

hopefully my corals will grow much better in here and I can add the lawnmower blenny and royal gramma plus a shrimp or two that I;d like

 

[seffieuk]

Sounds good to me

When I moved my nano contents to the five footer it was much easier than I imagined

Seffie x