Need advice on how to upgrade

[charliethetuna88]

Hello everyone I have a question I am upgrading from 120 gallon to a 300 gallon tank soon . I have 250 gallons of total water volume in my system now. What do you think the best way would be to go about doing the upgrade. I will be using most of my old rock some new and new sand . What would be the best way to go about doing this upgrade. I am trying to a void a cycle to minimize my losses in fish and corals . Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated thanks

 

[Jaftica]

Is the new tank going where the old tank was?

 

[charliethetuna88]

No dif spot how are doing ur swing over

 

[Jaftica]

I'm setting up a completely new system, new rock, new sand , once it cycles I will do the transfer all livestock.

 

[bigsink]

That is how I did mine.

 

[duke62]

Told ya

 

[Deep Dive Coral]

If you are taking most I mean like 80% of your live rock and your current water and add on New saltwater this will be like a big water change and you will not get a cycle.

 

[gnorts]

I am no expert but I have done the upgrade and downgrade a few times. Never lost coral or fish in any of the situations.

I always put new sand and used about 50 percent of the water from the existing tank and 50 percent new water. Like someone else stated like doing a big water change. Get your temperate the same. I then always dripped the fish/ coral in to new tank and never had a cycle. Again I am no expert but hope this helps good luck

 

[Bikeboss11]

just use as much of the old water as possible, add the sand and live rock..... for extra security, add a bottle of the dr tims one and only, once the water clears, add the corals.....

 

[charliethetuna88]

I was thinking the same thing im was planning on using most of my water and all my rocks plus adding some dry cleaned shelf rock and just getting new sand maybe seed it with a couple of cups from my system now

 

[NYreefNoob]

dont use dr tims, get a bottle of microbe lift special blend and a bottle of the nite-out 2 and use it, you will go through a minnie cycle reguardless, mainly diatom bloom, do use as much of your old water as possible and water ever additional with new water to make up the differance

 

[charliethetuna88]

I moved my tank before from a 90 to a 120 and had no loss .I have say 200 gallons from my tank now to use easly .so I think I should be good to do the whole transfer in one weekend I will do a watrt change the week before and save that watrr also

 

[bigsink]

When should I be over? I can bring 5 gallons of tank water!

 

[charliethetuna88]

Im nervous john lol

 

[Bikeboss11]

dont use dr tims, get a bottle of microbe lift special blend and a bottle of the nite-out 2 and use it, you will go through a minnie cycle reguardless, mainly diatom bloom, do use as much of your old water as possible and water ever additional with new water to make up the differance

Hey Noob, why shouldn't he use dr Tim's.... Is there an issue with it???

 

[LowezAkar24]

Hello everyone I have a question I am upgrading from 120 gallon to a 300 gallon tank soon . I have 250 gallons of total water volume in my system now. What do you think the best way would be to go about doing the upgrade. I will be using most of my old rock some new and new sand . What would be the best way to go about doing this upgrade. I am trying to a void a cycle to minimize my losses in fish and corals . Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated thanks

Setup the new tank in the desired spot. Remove the fish into a separate bin but make sure you do it with care as to not stress them too much. Put in your live sand (make sure you clean the new sand if you add new sand to avoid excessive long term cloudiness) into the new system. Do your desired aqua-scaping and let the system run for for a while provided that the tank is in the desired location. Periodically check on your fish in the bin to make sure all is well. Transfer the water from current tank to new bins and remove the old setup. Test the water and make sure the temperature is around what it was originally. Setup all the filtration and etc on the new tank. Once the tank clears up, carefully reintroduce your inhabitants. Everything should go well. I wish you Godspeed.....

 

[LowezAkar24]

I've upgraded from a 55 Gallon to 125 Gallon in the past successfully just for reference. Did not lose any fish at all. At first I thought I lost my Sixline Wrasse but he only hid for a few days but then came out from his hiding spot.

 

[charliethetuna88]

Awsome so there is hope I think I will do the whole transefer over one weekend ill let the new tank clear up for a few hrs or overnight then add the fish

 

[MIKE NY]

you can do it in a weekend easily...I did my upgrade from a 90 to a 170 in the same spot in one day...I just placed everything in bins with heaters and pumps...used all the same water, rocks even the same sand( just rinsed it). I had an extra 100 gals ready to go and everything was back in by night time with no cycle..no chemicals added and didn't lose a thing. I have a 65 gallon pond container you can borrow...just stop by.

 

[charliethetuna88]

Awsome mike thanks bro