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I recently bought an already established reef tank. I would like to eventually rescape the tank but with minimal damage/setbacks with coral,fish etc. I already purchased some Carib sea life rocks as they have a shapes pack with arches etc that I like. My question is how fast can I swap out the live rock? I want to use all four of the new pieces (20lbs) along with some of the nicer old pieces already covered in coral. My plan is to take out the pieces without coral and swap for the new pieces one at a time. My current plan is to take one piece out and place two new pieces in. then in two weeks take another piece out and put the remaining two in. Finally after another 2 weeks taking out one or two final pieces of old leaving me with 4 new and 2 old pieces. Does this time frame sound ok? Of course i will be monitoring parameters. Do you think I can do it any faster? Should I go slower? Would it be better to cram the four new pieces and wait 6 weeks then remove the pieces I don’t want?