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Hey guys,
I need some advice/step by step plan on how to move fish and rocks to new larger aquarium in the same house.
So I recently moved and prior to finishing my remodel I got a xxl750 Red Sea reefer. Currently the reefer is set up but still dry. I don’t have coral yet as I knew I was upgrading and moving so I didn’t want coral to go through a move. So currently my 4x2x2 reef ready tank is sitting in the garage with all the bells and whistles (t5/kessil lights, 2 mp40s, apex, rocks and fish) and I want to move all the rocks fish and equipment correctly into the new tank and avoid an ammonia spike and fish death.
I know I need more rocks so I bought more rocks (been in a brute curing for a month now), bought new sand, bought more light and bought a second varios6 return pump.
My current plan for the move and would LOVE expert advise:
1. Create a pvc diagram of new tank roughly 6ft and aquascape a new section for the bigger tank (I will keep the 4ft of aquascape the same).
2. Upon doing that remove all the rock from current tank and place in new tank along with the new aquascaped rock.
3. Put some maxjet pumps for flow and return pump runing for flow in new tank. Get new tank established without fish.
4. In the meantime create aquascape with left over rock and pvc for old tank. Just so the fish have Place to hide while new tank is being established.
5. After about a week match tank parameters and move all fish and equipment to new tank.
Would this be a good plan? I’m real ocd and perfectionist when it comes to this and I just want to do it the most ideal way which is the reason I have had the xxl750 for a year and it’s still dry. Maybe while I put new rocks and pvc in old tank with fish I will feed less for the time being.
I need some advice/step by step plan on how to move fish and rocks to new larger aquarium in the same house.
So I recently moved and prior to finishing my remodel I got a xxl750 Red Sea reefer. Currently the reefer is set up but still dry. I don’t have coral yet as I knew I was upgrading and moving so I didn’t want coral to go through a move. So currently my 4x2x2 reef ready tank is sitting in the garage with all the bells and whistles (t5/kessil lights, 2 mp40s, apex, rocks and fish) and I want to move all the rocks fish and equipment correctly into the new tank and avoid an ammonia spike and fish death.
I know I need more rocks so I bought more rocks (been in a brute curing for a month now), bought new sand, bought more light and bought a second varios6 return pump.
My current plan for the move and would LOVE expert advise:
1. Create a pvc diagram of new tank roughly 6ft and aquascape a new section for the bigger tank (I will keep the 4ft of aquascape the same).
2. Upon doing that remove all the rock from current tank and place in new tank along with the new aquascaped rock.
3. Put some maxjet pumps for flow and return pump runing for flow in new tank. Get new tank established without fish.
4. In the meantime create aquascape with left over rock and pvc for old tank. Just so the fish have Place to hide while new tank is being established.
5. After about a week match tank parameters and move all fish and equipment to new tank.
Would this be a good plan? I’m real ocd and perfectionist when it comes to this and I just want to do it the most ideal way which is the reason I have had the xxl750 for a year and it’s still dry. Maybe while I put new rocks and pvc in old tank with fish I will feed less for the time being.