New tank with old media

[wagadodo]

hi all!

So my fluval evo gave up on me and one of the seals went. I managed to salvage my livestock and it’s now sitting in a separate container. I have a 4 big bags of media which has been established for 2 years. Livestock consists of 1 clown fish, 1 royal gramma, 1 peacock wrasse and 1 cleaner shrimp.

In terms of corals I have they’re mainly eughyllia and sps like seriatapora, stylophora and montipora (different varieties)


My new tank arrived today but I’m wanting to do a new scape and use a thicker grain substrate.

What steps would you take in order to get everything moved to the new tank with minimal coral deaths?

Thanks!

 

[Spare time]

Just plop and drop assuming the salinity and temperature is the same.

 

[Doctorgori]

You can keep corals in sorta a state of suspended animation using LOTS airstones, no light, no fish, no inverts ….they should be good like that for a few days… even with no light

I’ve had great success transferring corals and fish this way while the tank is being setup …

some hard lessons:
power heads blasting away, same direction is bad… again, I use a powerful pump and airstones…Air bubbles irritating/killing corals is bunk…

I skip the heater, IME as unneeded risk at room temps, cooler is better anyway
I’ve had a single dead snail kill everything …keep your inverts separate from fish

I keep my fish with any “pre-charged” bio media…I do BLAST a power head across my marinepure bricks/biomedia.. I use an air venturi on like a maxi jet 800, again blasting across the biomedia…. I’ve kept a lot of fish in garbage cans just like that

 

[Spare time]

PS don't forget the new tank water will have 0 nitrate and 0 phosphate, so make sure to feed the corals enough until you have those detectable.

 

[wagadodo]

PS don't forget the new tank water will have 0 nitrate and 0 phosphate, so make sure to feed the corals enough until you have those detectable.

I have bottled nitrate and phosphate already, dosing this should be okay?

 

[Spare time]

I have bottled nitrate and phosphate already, dosing this should be okay?

That works too.