I'm planning to upgrade my 125G tank to 550G tank.
My current 125G tank is about a year old. I've got some normal pests I would like to kill off for the new tank like aiptasia and vermetid snails and probably ich too. So my plan is to do a restart. Going to cycle the new tank fresh with new dry rock and dead sand. Then frag my coral colonies and put them in QT for about 3 months, willing to down size my corals and regrow them out. Going to QT my fish as well in batches for 3 weeks per batch.
I would like to reuse the rocks and sand from my current tank in the new tank. I'm thinking to just rinse it with RO water and leave it out in the sun for about month then rinse again. Will that kill all the pests? It's pretty sunny and warm where I live. I'm hoping the sun will cook the rocks and sand to kill off anything on there. Might be too optimistic.
My current 125G tank is about a year old. I've got some normal pests I would like to kill off for the new tank like aiptasia and vermetid snails and probably ich too. So my plan is to do a restart. Going to cycle the new tank fresh with new dry rock and dead sand. Then frag my coral colonies and put them in QT for about 3 months, willing to down size my corals and regrow them out. Going to QT my fish as well in batches for 3 weeks per batch.
I would like to reuse the rocks and sand from my current tank in the new tank. I'm thinking to just rinse it with RO water and leave it out in the sun for about month then rinse again. Will that kill all the pests? It's pretty sunny and warm where I live. I'm hoping the sun will cook the rocks and sand to kill off anything on there. Might be too optimistic.