UCF Alum
Stick addict
Ok so I pulled the trigger on a Red Sea Peninsula 650. It will be here in about 2 weeks. I’m upgrading from a nano 40 and shutting it down. I have roughly 35 pounds of live rock in my current tank. It is stocked with various LPS and softies as well as four chromis, one Cardinal, CUC and one wrasse. I ordered live sand and 80 pounds of rock. I will not and refuse to do a cycle with fish in the tank. So my thought was this for the transition.
Put the 80 pounds of live rock and the 120 pounds of live sand in the new tank and stick two chunks of live rock from my current tank in the new tank and put the four chromis in there, adding Microbactr7 daily, keeping an eye on the ammonia, trates, trites, etc. When everything is stable, I will add the two other fish from my current set up. The coral will go into the new tank at a later time.
So, for those of you that have swapped tanks before, what was your method? I was also thinking about dosing pure ammonia (no surfactants) into the new tank or raw shrimp to get the cycle started and go about it the long way. Thoughts to those who have done this?
Put the 80 pounds of live rock and the 120 pounds of live sand in the new tank and stick two chunks of live rock from my current tank in the new tank and put the four chromis in there, adding Microbactr7 daily, keeping an eye on the ammonia, trates, trites, etc. When everything is stable, I will add the two other fish from my current set up. The coral will go into the new tank at a later time.
So, for those of you that have swapped tanks before, what was your method? I was also thinking about dosing pure ammonia (no surfactants) into the new tank or raw shrimp to get the cycle started and go about it the long way. Thoughts to those who have done this?
