I just switch over from a 72G to a 180G . I aged the water in garbage cans, the sump, and an old 50G tank for a couple of days, then moved the rock in, filling the tank as my wife and I aquascaped, being carefull not to let the rock dry out. The next day in went the fish.
Of course a few shrooms and zoos end up going in with the rock, so they became my test corals. A week later since my test corals were doing OK and the parameters were still OK, my soft corals and lps went in along with a test SPS frag.
After a 5 days and a red bug treatment my SPS went in. So far all is well and after 1 month the corals are starting to "color" nice and nitrates are below 1 (they peaked at 2.5)
Your fish will do much better than in a drum if you can get them into your tank as soon as possible, so long as you're not using any new live rock, and you're careful not to kill off your old live rock.
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