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Message: <blockquote data-quote="brandon429" data-source="post: 10643563" data-attributes="member: 48701"><p>Thank you for posting! We can do that job well, and in one weekend the new tank will carry fish. For your plan:</p><p></p><p>Study page one and several completed jobs here. Do the sand rinse portion correctly, it's the #1 thing we do here above all/ produce rinsed sandbeds so they won't cloud up</p><p></p><p>Instead of putting old rocks in the canister, put them in the middle of the actual display, don't tuck them away in a chamber with less frequent water contact than the actual display... put them up front in with the uncycled rocks</p><p></p><p>Put the fish and corals in the new tank on rinsed perfect sand, with both old and new rocks and water that matches your old tanks salinity and temp, this will skip cycle</p><p></p><p>Use all your current rocks in the new tank display, you can remove them later if needed</p><p></p><p>*you may remove the old rocks in 60 days if you want, leaving only the new rocks now and they will be cycled due to contact time with the fish and the old rocks</p><p></p><p>You do not need bottle bac for this job, rock transfer handles all needed bacteria</p></blockquote><p></p>

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