Moving in a month, Time to upgrade yayay!!

So im moving to a place with a basement in about a month and wanna upgrade while im moving my tank i have a 75gal now and want to buy atleast 110gal reef ready tank, other then a new tank, stand, new sump, can anyone else think of anything else ill need?

 

a few days of work and then a holiday once its all finished

you may need new pumps, wavemakers heaters, etc due to the size of the upgrade
and some additional rock and sand etc

Steve

 

awesome! Are you still staying in Harrisburg?
And I agree with Steve, most likely some more wavemakers and maybe a larger skimmer?

 

A little outside of "the burg" for secuitry reasons (had 2k worth of wheels stolen off my car in nov) and thanks i forgot about those small things, also should i use all brand new water or like a 50 old and 50 new mix for assembly?

 

Im in favour of not throwing away good quality water if you dont have to

I would save and transport as much as I could
if you can get the new tank set up in the new home prior to the move that would really help
with additional base rock, and maybe 50% full and being circulated using wavemakers etc
and then moving your live stock, live rock and as much water as you can (throw your sand away its the part that causes issues if there are issues according to many people)

that way the transition wont be as much of a shock as it might be with 100% new water

if you can have the tank half set up
then you can add your live rock on the upper layers of the new base rock you put in
and then start adding the old water you took with you
then finally adding your livestock to the now almost full new tank

Steve

 

Nice thanks for the tips.

Throwing all the sand out kinda sounds crazy but i guess if thats the way to do it then thats what ill do

 

How deep is it and how old is it?

tip I picked up from the Melevsreef site was
if its under 2 inches deep and under 9 months old - your probably not going to have any issues if you remove and thoroughly rinse it

if its deeper or been in longer
then saving a couple of cupfulls to seed the new sand bed, is probably a better option

Steve

 

About 2-3" of it came from my old 55 form about a year and a half ago and another 1-2" on top of that from about 2 months ago. What is the best sand to use in a larger tank or even barebottom the way to go?

 

I hear ya on getting out of the city lol... good choice!

but even though sand beds add a lot of nice fauna to the tank, you have to be careful with them. In your case I would replace the sand except for a little bit to seed.
It also depends on what kind of tank you plan to keep and for how long. sand beds are a pretty long topic but ill give the nutshell quick.
if you have a DSB you will have to have ample cleaners that can take care of it (cucumber or starfish) or else it will get super dirty. The downside is that they actually eat the fauna in the sand so you will 1. not have as much and 2. have to be able to maintain enough fauna so the cleaner doesnt starve.
If you have a 1-2" bed you can keep it nicely without any dedicated cleaners, however it will still pickup dirt so you will have to manually clean it once in a while.
If you go BB then you wont have any issues with detris build up because you can just suck it up any time. Makes for MUCH cleaner tanks and a lot less maintenance.

If your doing an SPS tank I would recommend BB for the cleanliness. lps and softies are fine with sandbeds.
Also, if you plan to keep wrasses that sleep under the sand make sure to consider that... they can do without the sand to sleep but it just takes some getting used to for them.

 

oh yeah i would have to get rid of my tiger pistol shrimp and YWG so sand it is lol cause they are awesome.