Hondachico
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I have a 35g hex which started to leak not so long ago and I got a biocube off of Craig's and I wanted to see how fast I can transport my guys from the hex to the nano??
If you transport the sand and rocks, there may be very little cycling.
If the cube is established save all the water , live rock , sand. Drain the water , rock into cooler transport and reset it in the new location. I left everything else alone and only needed to add around one gallon of water afterwords.
I did a 29 gallon cube 2 weeks ago and it worked perfect. 2 1/2 hours total time with a half hour drive between locations.
Sorry , Guess I misunderstood what you were doing.
Would still think it would be fairly quick for you though. Hope it works out for you.
I helped my daughter switch out a broken 75 to a 125. The new tank had to go into the same spot so we broken 75 gallon down. Put fish and corals into large tubs with powerheads and heaters. Also put rocks into 5 gallon buckets with tank water. We threw out the sand because it smelled really bad when we scooped it out and just replaced it with new. And put everything back. Tanks was cloudy for a day or so but everything was fine
You don't need to use old water at all. As long as the parameters are the same. Water doesn't really have any bacteria in it so as long as you have your rock transferred you should be fine. If the sand was old I wouldn't use it because there could be a lot of junk.