I currenlty have a 55 gallon reef tank that i got second hand a few months ago.
There's about 3 inches of live sand, and 50lbs of live rock with some coral, anenome, yellow tang, crabs, shrimp, 2 clowns, 3 star fish...
I've got the itch to do a larger tank than this. I'm looking at a 125 gallon tank with an adequate cannister filter and lighting. Can I simply move my existing rock, sand, water and creatures into the 125 and top off with water and not kill anything? I'm assuming I'll need more sand and over time get more live rock but making that kind of move will it be too big a shock to their system by having 60% new water, new tank, etc?
The 55 is definitely nice, but I'm interested in something bigger and use the 55 as a fuge.
thanks in advance.
John
There's about 3 inches of live sand, and 50lbs of live rock with some coral, anenome, yellow tang, crabs, shrimp, 2 clowns, 3 star fish...
I've got the itch to do a larger tank than this. I'm looking at a 125 gallon tank with an adequate cannister filter and lighting. Can I simply move my existing rock, sand, water and creatures into the 125 and top off with water and not kill anything? I'm assuming I'll need more sand and over time get more live rock but making that kind of move will it be too big a shock to their system by having 60% new water, new tank, etc?
The 55 is definitely nice, but I'm interested in something bigger and use the 55 as a fuge.
thanks in advance.
John