New sand, established rock?

[Sinocard]

Currently I have a 12.5 cadlights and a 20 gallon standard. About 35 lbs of live rock over both.

Was going to transfer them both into my new 30 gallon JBJ. But I decided for this tank, I was going to switch over to fine sand. It's got 20 lbs of fresh non-live sand in it. It's filled and running, dumped a bunch of pods and some macro algae in to get things going.

My question is, can I just toss my established live rock in and call it a day...? There shouldn't be any ammonia spikes or anything right? I'm not too worried about diatom blooms or anything, I only keep zoas and other equally easy things.

 

[thegrun]

You should not have any kind of cycle, but go slow on adding livestock.

 

[Sinocard]

You should not have any kind of cycle, but go slow on adding livestock.

Including coral? My tanks aren't too heavily stocked, and the only fish I have are 2 clowns in the 20 gallon (who I plan to leave there just a little longer). No crabs, countless stomatella snails in the rocks.

 

[thegrun]

No, the corals really do not add much to the bio-load. You just need to easy on the fish so their waste doesn't overwhelm the bacteria.

 

[Sinocard]

No, the corals really do not add much to the bio-load. You just need to easy on the fish so their waste doesn't overwhelm the bacteria.

Awesome, thanks a bunch! Looks like tomorrow is partial stocking day, once the heater brings the new water up to temp