Tank swap - advice please.

[delo978]

Agreed, move everything then I even went one step further and boiled water to kill everything in the sand let the sand sit for 5 min while stirring, then I dumped it in my new tank. With 40lbs of LR you have plenty of bacteria to start spreading in your new tank.....keep in mind you may i say may have a small spike but with a few water changes it will settle down. That's how i did it and only my opinion though.

[MarkoD]

I went from a 55 to a 180 and swapped everything all at once except the sand, I bought brand new sand.

No spikes and my dry rock seeded very quickly

[doch]

Thanks for the input guys. What about the rock that's cooking? Is 2.5 months long enough?

[The Grizz]

You have added water to the rock bucket in the last 2 1/2 months right. I only ask because the last time I had some rock cooking in a tub I kind of forgot about it and when I remembered about it the tub was 1/2 empty. If you have kept the water level up I think it should be good to use but I am in no way an expert on cooking rock

[doch]

I haven't had to.... I've taken a peak a few times to see if all the algae had died off... water level is still up.