Transferring SPS from old to new tank...

[vmacisback]

So Ive had my 100G sps tank running well for over a year until I took an 8 day trip to costa rica. Upon my return my house AC had blown a fuse and temps in the house with the tank got up to 89* (tank only hit 85*). Some STN has occurred and some corals are just down right ugly and somewhat brown. I have been trying to get the tank back to stable and doing what I can.

Long story short I have a 190G in my garage that is cycled and has been running for a couple months with no fish and only Zoas and some softies. The params in the new tank seem more stable and closer to what I like than in the old tank. SO with this in mind im ready to transfer the SPS over to the new tank. Ive learned after all these years to take things slow so I have added a couple test frags which look fine over the last week or so.

Does anyone have any suggestions for acclimating or transferring corals over to a new tank for an established one? Anything would help, just a bit nervous to lose some prized pieces. Thanks

 

[sahin]

My current tank was reset due to a crash. I added a few tester acro frags only after two week of setting up a fresh tank. So two months should be fine if the paramters have been under control. Once I saw good signs for a week on the test frags, I started to get all my acros back from my friends tanks. Its now around 10 months and I've not lost a single frag or colony.

My buddy just upgradded his tank and has had his new setup running for a month, transfered a few colonies and they STN'd...so its hard to say...

But since you are a seasoned SPS keeper, you would know when an acro frag looks happy in its new environment. If they look happy, then transfer a couple of the larger colonies...maybe stuff that isnt rare and easy to replace. If they do fine for a day or two trasnfer over more stuff.

 

[vmacisback]

yea that's kind of what I was thinking. Itd be nice to get this new tank going with the majority of the sps and just focus on that.

 

[shih87]

Do it slowly and good luck.

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