Transfer--what do you think?
I will be transferring everything from my current tank to the new tank very soon and looking for ideas. The tanks are in different spots, so that makes this easy. But I am using the same sump, so that kind of complicates things a little I guess.
I also have to make about 120 new Gallons of water and the only place to do that is in the new tank. To start this though, I have to remove the sump from the current tank, put in under the new tank and then put in the front support brace (sump will not fit with brace already in place). So easy enough but then my tank will have no sump, skimmer, zeo ect. for up to a week. That worries me since the tank has such a high bio load. What would you do? Maybe transfer the corals over as soon as possible (so tank would be about half full maybe) and then move the fish once the sump is running on the new tank?
Then the other thing to think about is the sand. I am not going to use it all since I want very little sand this time but will siphoning out the top inch or so and putting it in the new tank cause a cycle at all? I guess I just have to do it and then find out.
Probably making this more complicated then it needs to be but I have had some VERY bad luck with moves in the past, loosing everything the last time.
Any advice would be great!
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