hsnydn
Community Member
Hello,
I have 10Gallon tank with hob filter and hob protein skimmer, having 2 clown and mid and small size 10-15 kinds of corals, mushrooms, milka stylopora, micromussa, leptoseris, birdnest, montipora digitata, plating monti, hammers, zoas etc. I decided to upgrade my tank with bigger size. Logically it would not take much time to transfer by using existing cycled rock and some filter media. However, time by time i started to create some criteria in my mind:
1- I know bristle worms are good guys, i didnt care about them in my previous and the first tank but they are hiding almost everywhere. For the new tank, I was planning to use existing ceramic rings and seachem matrix from the filter. Just to check, I opened the filter bag, i could see 5-6 of them. Probably there are more smaller babies and eggs too. I dont know it is going to be a solution if i rinse the media with saltwater and check each single media particule and brush one by one. Anyone has experience for this?
2- I already decided not to use existing sand and rock, some of them have hair algea but all off them having the same bristle worms. I can go for live rock, but this is open for the same issue and may be more creatures depends on what the rock has.
3- The only remaining thing is the water to be used for cycling, but as i know benefical bacterias doesnt exist in the water. İf i use it, will it be better than nothing or useless?
So by this way, it is going to be new tank set up almost instead of transfering.
I have 10Gallon tank with hob filter and hob protein skimmer, having 2 clown and mid and small size 10-15 kinds of corals, mushrooms, milka stylopora, micromussa, leptoseris, birdnest, montipora digitata, plating monti, hammers, zoas etc. I decided to upgrade my tank with bigger size. Logically it would not take much time to transfer by using existing cycled rock and some filter media. However, time by time i started to create some criteria in my mind:
1- I know bristle worms are good guys, i didnt care about them in my previous and the first tank but they are hiding almost everywhere. For the new tank, I was planning to use existing ceramic rings and seachem matrix from the filter. Just to check, I opened the filter bag, i could see 5-6 of them. Probably there are more smaller babies and eggs too. I dont know it is going to be a solution if i rinse the media with saltwater and check each single media particule and brush one by one. Anyone has experience for this?
2- I already decided not to use existing sand and rock, some of them have hair algea but all off them having the same bristle worms. I can go for live rock, but this is open for the same issue and may be more creatures depends on what the rock has.
3- The only remaining thing is the water to be used for cycling, but as i know benefical bacterias doesnt exist in the water. İf i use it, will it be better than nothing or useless?
So by this way, it is going to be new tank set up almost instead of transfering.
