how to acclimate large rock with corals on them

[TBone303]

I am going to start to transferring my corals from my 72 gal to my new 135 gal tank today and I just wondering how to do this. Do I just make sure that water parameters are the same ( temp, ph and salinity) and just put them into the new tank or is it going to be more complicated than that.

Thanks
Tony

 

[Sk8r]

Match the water as closely as possible, down to cal, alk, ph, salinity, temp. Then move. The worst-off will be any sponges, who don't like to get air in their pores. If you could get a big clean! salad bowl and lift sponge-bearing rocks in that, water and all, you'd save having any dieoff. Also shake or otherwise annoy lps into full retraction. Sometimes a puff of cooler saltwater from a turkey baster will do it.