new tank setup/using current tank items

Dakota · 08-17-2004, 01:57 AM

About ready to setup my new 90 gallon tank. I currently have a 46 bowfront with 50 pounds of live rock. Also have another 40 pounds curing right now. will I have to deal with a mini cycle if I add all old tank water with additional new water. 30+ gallons old and about 90 gallons new. can i move current inhabitants over right away, and do they have to be accliamated to the new tank. if i missed something let me know thanks.

Brucey · 08-17-2004, 07:53 AM

Hi Dak . . . . If you can mature the new water for a few days with a couple of peices of the existing LR and then over 3 - 4 days change say 10% of the water back and forth from the old to the new system I can see NO reason why you will have any problems at all. I would however still bag the fish and acclimatize them to the new tank water via the drip method.
HTH
Brucey

BoomerD · 08-17-2004, 12:04 PM

Dakota, if there's anything you need for that 90, PM me, I'm just down the road in Modesto, and taking down a 90 and 40 , etc...

addict · 08-17-2004, 06:09 PM

When I did my tank swap I only ran the new tank for a day before adding all the stuff from my old tank... I didn't even have a blip on the Ammonia or Nitrite tests, though I did have a small algae cycle that's common with new tanks.
The way I figured it, was that I was just changing the reef's container... AFAIK, the glass in the tank doesn't need to cycle, only the stuff you put in it... and if that's already cycled, you shouldn't have any problems.
HTH.

08-17-2004, 01:57 AM	#1 (permalink)
Dakota Limpet Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Sacramento, Ca Posts: 125 View Gallery Karma Komment	new tank setup/using current tank items About ready to setup my new 90 gallon tank. I currently have a 46 bowfront with 50 pounds of live rock. Also have another 40 pounds curing right now. will I have to deal with a mini cycle if I add all old tank water with additional new water. 30+ gallons old and about 90 gallons new. can i move current inhabitants over right away, and do they have to be accliamated to the new tank. if i missed something let me know thanks.

08-17-2004, 07:53 AM	#2 (permalink)
Brucey Reef Lobster Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Reading, England Posts: 1,292 View Gallery Karma Komment	Hi Dak . . . . If you can mature the new water for a few days with a couple of peices of the existing LR and then over 3 - 4 days change say 10% of the water back and forth from the old to the new system I can see NO reason why you will have any problems at all. I would however still bag the fish and acclimatize them to the new tank water via the drip method. HTH Brucey __________________ 160UK Gallon. (192US Gallon). 400Lbs LR. Aquamedic Turboflotor 5000 Shorty skimmer. Arcadia 3Series pendant (3x250W 14,000'K MH & 2x58W 60" actinic) (DIY cooling fan). Tunze 7095 Multicontroller & 2xTunze 6100 Streams. Redsea 100 Aquazone Plus ozonizer and redox computer. Aquamedic Ocean Runner 6500 return. TMC Vectron 30W UV sterilizer. Aquamedic Aquaniveau auto top up system through Deltec 500 kalk stirrer. PurityOnTap RO/DI. Deltec FR509 (ROWAPhos). Aquamedic PH computer controlling KNOP HD Calcium Reactor. Setup Nov 2002 See my tank here http://www.reefsanctuary.com/forums/...&threadid=4486

08-17-2004, 12:04 PM	#3 (permalink)
BoomerD Reef Shark Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Northern California Posts: 5,637 View Gallery Karma Komment	Dakota, if there's anything you need for that 90, PM me, I'm just down the road in Modesto, and taking down a 90 and 40 , etc... __________________ Intelligence is not knowing all the answers, but knowing where and how to find them! www.google.com

08-17-2004, 06:09 PM	#4 (permalink)
addict Reef Lobster Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Sierra Nevada Country Posts: 1,621 View Gallery Karma Komment	When I did my tank swap I only ran the new tank for a day before adding all the stuff from my old tank... I didn't even have a blip on the Ammonia or Nitrite tests, though I did have a small algae cycle that's common with new tanks. The way I figured it, was that I was just changing the reef's container... AFAIK, the glass in the tank doesn't need to cycle, only the stuff you put in it... and if that's already cycled, you shouldn't have any problems. HTH. __________________ -David *addict's tank specs:* Coming soon!

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