Despite that massive run on sentence, I have a few suggestions. First, buy yourself 2 large plastic garbage bins. If you don't already have a submersible pump, get one. Pump the water into both plastic garbage bins (making it about equal in both). Make sure you have a heater in both garbage bins, and set the temperature to the desired temp of your display tank. Wait for the temperature to equalize. WHen your tank is half emptied, remove the live rock, and fish/inverts/coral, and split them between both garbage bins (remember to keep incompatible and compatible corals apart). Continue to remove the rest of the water. Swap the tanks. Use your submersible pump to remove half the water out of EACH garbage bin. Place your live rock back in to your new Display tank. Then proceed to put your corals/fish back in- slowly. All in all, it should take you about 5 hours to do the entire swap, if you take your beer breaks during the time where your pump is pumping the water from tank to bin and vise versa. Always fun upgrading to a new tank! Good luck!
PS: You may consider waiting 24 hours before adding freshly made top up water to your new display tank once you have all your old water back in. The process of being moved twice may be hard enough on your fish and corals; dont shock them with 40% fresh SW addition in the same day. _________ Kibbles and bits and bits and bites, and bacon and bits and kibbles and bits...... NOT reef safe  |