Moving Advice

[balon]

Hi

I've had a new 350 litre tank custom built as my Vision 260 was a few inches too long for the alcove it was destined for, and am just about to move the residents in (~25 mbuna).

I filled about 1/3 of the new tank with treated water two nights ago and began heating it. Last night, I bagged about 30 litres of water from the mature tank in large fish bags along with about 15 kg of the crushed coral sand and about 20kg of the ocean/tufa rock.

I moved one of two canister filters (the Tetratec 1200) to the new tank last night and got all rock, sand and water transferred in under 90 minutes. Gradually topped it up with treated water at proper temp to where it's now about 2/3 full.

I plan to move all fish later tonight along with the other canister filter (Fluval 304) and I guess I'm just looking for reassurance that bearing in mind the precautions I've taken and that I'm putting mature filters on the new tank I should still have a healthy biological load and that the tank should not begin cycling.

Anybody any experience with similar situation?

Thanks

Barry

 

[clareriley]

When I moved my 28Malawis from my 150l to the 380l we did the whole move in 2 hours. the fish went in the bath with some of the water from the tank, all rock went in a bucket and the filters went in the bath aswell to keep them wet.
Set the new tank up added trated water that had been standing for 2 days and then added some of the fish water, then got the temp right, bagged the fish up due to them being in the bath and not heated water and then let them float for 20mins then let them go. I didnt have any mini cycle.. all i did have was a bit of clowdyness as I went from small shale to large grained sand.

 

[balon]

Thanks for your reply clareuk. I'm going to go for it then. Should be smooth enough as long as I don't hit any serious traffic!

Will post pics of new setup when I get the hood finished.