Is there any way other then scrubbing and a good swish in a bucket to get rock cleaned quickly in the transfer?

Chris, Could you pressure wash the rock?
have it in salt water then pull it out spray it with a pressure washer then right back into SW?

J

Even if you take it outside, quickly pressure wash it with regular water, then swish it around in some saltwater and put it back in the tank you won't see much if any of a cycle. I've done it twice with success :biggrin:

I thought if anyone had it would have been you. Did it resolve the problem?

J

It resolved the caulerpa problem (for a time) and kicked the arse of the dinoflagellates (however at that time I also removed my sandbed so who knows what did the trick). Plus its damned satisfying watching all that ugliness peel of the rock like melted bugger. In the archives of my blog, I see that I did have a bit of a cycle (I kind of went a little gung ho with the powerwashing as my rocks were pretty nasty) but the algae was confined to the rocks and sandbed and was gone within 2 weeks.

We moved our 65g into a 120g (two years ago) and in Jan. we moved our 120g and 30g into a 230g. Each move took us one day to do.

First (a few days before the move) we filled up the new larger tank with new sand and mostly new water. Then we seeded the new sand with some of the old sand and added a little bit of the old water and ran the skimmer to clear up the water.

On the day of the move we put all the LR into rubbermaid containers that were 1/2 filled with SW, power heads and heaters. We had the large rubbermaid containers set up in front of the new tank and we used buckets to transfer the rock over from the old tank to the rubbermaids. Then we transfered all the fish into a different rubbermaid that had a couple of LR pieces, a heater, a bubbler and a power head in it.

Then we placed/set up the LR in the new tank and after we had it the way we liked it, we added the fish.

The move was a lot of work and it did take all day but the move went very smoothly and we didn't loose any corals or fish.

The pressure wash idea would work but I am on the second floor of a appartment building and I am not sure how to contain all that water and mess. I also think it would set off a cycle for sure. Fishoholic thanks for the input. I am sure this is going to take some time. I have so much coral in the tank right now that I believe each piece of rock I take out I am going to have to move coral around just to get those rocks out. I am also going to have to worry about the small fish hiding in the rock. I'm thinking the quike scrub and swish might be the best route to take.
Chris