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Originally Posted by marie
As long as you have a bunch of live rock in the old tank and providing all water parameters somewhat match, then there really is no reason you can't go ahead and transfer everything into the new tank
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I agree with what Marie has stated. I have successfully upgraded my tank several times over the years with very minimal cycle by moving all of my live rock and live sand along with some of the tank water(some people say not to re-use sand but I always have). I started out with a 50 gallon and upgraded to a 90 gallon then upgraded to 135 gallon and finally to a 180 gallon. In all cases I moved all of my live rock, live sand and livestock at once with next to no noticeable cycle. That being said my livestock consists of mostly fish and a few more hardy corals but I would not consider this to be a true reef tank as most of my fish are mainly predators such as Triggers and Puffers.
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