Sorry for posting in your thread. Disregard what I said. This old school reefer will just sit back and use the buy/sell threads rather than share actual experience. Good luck with your tank.

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Guess I'm old school too, I agree with you.

When I transfered to new tank I used 50% new water and 50% old. The rock was transfered and i did use a little bit of sand but it was cleaned. once the water was at temp livestock went in. Coral and fish. Old tank was shutdown right after
Very simple

I DO NOT have the room to have 2 tanks running at once until I sell my cichlid tank which wont happen any time soon.

I can no longer keep the "giant swimming pool" in the middle of the basement. I then added a large bin with rocks beside the "giant swimming pool" which is beyond in the way of any space we did have left to walk in that room.

This new tank will be going in exactly the same spot as the old tank, I can move the old tank temporarily beside the new tank but that will displace where the couch and side tables currently are (moving them to the middle of the living room), any longer then a week out of place and I think I will be kicked out of here.

My sand bed is Dirty Dirty Dirty! I know if I disturb it, it will let up all sorts of nastys and I would rather not kill everything.

If I wasn't using new rock, I dont think I would care about any of this. But I know regardless of how "cured" the rock you buy is, theres going to be die off which will create a cycle. That is what my concern is.

So take all your water and rock put it in a Rubbermaid kick old tank out door and put new tank in place. Fill with old water and rock that sat in said water. If lots rock add slowly. Watch your parameters nothing a wc can't help. Start up of some kind works great

As much as I would rather do this properly and wait like when I set the 30 up, it just cant happen that way. I do still want to live here.

I would like some type of bacteria supplement that will help keep things safer for the fish/coral. I've read numerous threads on transfering tanks, but I still wanted to ask.

Is there anything J&L has you guys would recommend? Going to Ocean Aquatics or Oceanic Corals isn't going to happen.

I always add microbacter7 to my new tanks.. Don't know for sure it helps or not, but I've never had a problem starting new tanks.

Do it! It is leaving it to chance - people move all the time without pre-cycling a new tank. You may or not have loss. People are just mentioning that you have two tanks and thus you could have a far better situation but if you can't - you can only do what is possible.

I just moved my tank 2 months ago, and used maybe 25% old water and the rest new. The only thing I added (frankly I probably could have got away with out it) was bacter boost. Basically like microbacter7 but a different brand. No problems other then and sps rtn on me. No big loss.
If the rock has been in the tank long enough with regular water changes it should be cured anyway, so you really shouldn't see much if any cycle. I didn't even see Diatoms or any spikes after moving mine.