Moving and setting up new tank

[Masoniac]

I need a little help for you guys. I currently have a 75 that has already been set up for almost a year now. I a. Moving Saturday and bought a brand new 75 reef ready waiting on stand and sump to still come in. I am going with dry rock and seeding it with one or two pieces of rock that's currently in the tank now. I have a question about cycling, the new tank using one or two pieces from the old tank do I just do all the same as if I was cycling a whole new tank? Any advice on moving the livestock would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.


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[Sniperhank]

Why not just move the old tank rock and livestock into the new tank and not have to cycle at all?


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[Masoniac]

Well I can't use the old rock because, I have a critter somewhere that likes to eat my coral so I have no choice but buy new rock I don't really want to carry him to the new tank. I have some rock in my sump that I was going to throw in the sump I am getting. Trust me I would have loved doing it that way.


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[Sniperhank]

You can put some into your sump to bring in some of the bacteria...but if you don't know WHERE that critter is...what happens when you bring it over?

 

[Masoniac]

Well I know it's in the main tank so I would just use the rock that is in the sump.


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[Sniperhank]

Depends on what it is. If a nudibranch it could come up the return. But the sump idea would work.

 

[Masoniac]

Thanks Hank. I have another question idk if you could answer or not but will this work on the AI Hydra as well? http://www.marinedepot.com/AquaIllu...quaIllumination)-3Z39456-FILTACMOFTHK-vi.html


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[Sniperhank]

No clue.

 

[Masoniac]

Okay maybe someone else will chime in thanks though


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