Thunking of redoing my tank - any suggestions?

[daveverdo]

I am getting tired of the way my tank looks and may redo the entire aquascaping.

I was thinking of pulling out the dozen or so corals that I want to keep and putting them in a temporary tank with the fish.

Then pulling the rest of the rock and any other corals and selling/trading them.

I would get mostly new new live rock along with some of the old stuff. Set things up and them replace the fish and coral.

I assume that by using cured rock, old sand, and old water I would be able to return things to the rescaped tank after a short period. I would prefer not to leave the fish in the smaller tank temp for very long.

Sound like a good plan or am I missing something?

Any suggestions?

Any suggestions on where to get some larger pieces nice of LR?

Dave

 

[pimpinitup6969]

dave i just ordered some base rock from marco rocks and it is gorgeous stuff!

 

[Capt_Cully]

What direction are you thinking Dave? Tank looks good to me. More LPS? SPS? What fish?

 

[daveverdo]

What direction are you thinking Dave? Tank looks good to me. More LPS? SPS? What fish?

More LPS and softies and fish. I do have a few SPS that seem to be doing well in my tank and would like to get some others that like my tank. I do not think I want to adapt the tank to SPS as much as find SPS that adapt to my tank.

The problem I have is the three biggest rocks in the tank are almost completely covered with GSP (front left and middle back) and large Hairy Green Mushrooms (whole right side).

I think the easiest way to get rid of those things is just to pull out the whole rock and replace them.

Dave

 

[Neoz]

dave i just ordered some base rock from marco rocks and it is gorgeous stuff!

+1 Marco Rock is just awesome. Very pourous and looks great. I just ordered the shelf rock he had in stock. That stuff sold out in 4 hours :eek2:

 

[reefscape15]

I think you'll be able to go as you mentioned above. Keeping some of the water and existing rock/sand should leave you with a minimal cycle, but from moving everything around like that, you will create somewhat of a new cycle. I'd give the tank a week or two after the move before you start filling the tank up again. Hope all goes well!

 

[nwrogers]

I would try to trade in the rocks with GSP for new rocks at your LFS. They may actually think your rocks are more valuable and give you a good deal. It's worth a try...