After getting a little excited on boxing day shopping, I'm starting to think I might upgrade from our 16 gal biocube to a fluval m60 (24gal). There's a good deal on marketplace for one and I'm fed up with being capped for space with the AIO system on the cube.
Would it be easier to just buy new rock and cycle the tank? Obviously it would be easier so we could re aquascape but we wanted to consider using our live rock. How long will the bacteria in our rocks stay alive our of water? If we bought a small 5-10gal qt/frag tank to transfer our corals to then did a quick switch over with our rocks would we lose the bacteria?
Any tips or other ideas would be awesome. Thanks!!
Would it be easier to just buy new rock and cycle the tank? Obviously it would be easier so we could re aquascape but we wanted to consider using our live rock. How long will the bacteria in our rocks stay alive our of water? If we bought a small 5-10gal qt/frag tank to transfer our corals to then did a quick switch over with our rocks would we lose the bacteria?
Any tips or other ideas would be awesome. Thanks!!