Upgrade 72 gallon to 220 gallon

[mpiton62]

I have a few questions on how to handle such a upgrade.

Long story short, I'm making an upgrade to a 220 gallon tank. I currently have a 72 gallon thats been up and running for about 2 years now. What steps do i make to putting everything into the new tank? I have SPS, LPS and live rock and 6 fish. One of my fish just got ich and I'm started to get a little bit of cyano. How can i attack both with the move? what items do i move first? how do i keep the tank from going through another cycle?

If you need more information please let me know, i can't think of anything else at the moment.

 

[Racenrich]

when i went from a 55g to the 120g, all i did was setup the 120g with some new substrate, took about 5# of the old and added that....ran the 120g for about a week, then transferred it all over...took about 6-8 months to come back to normal, but well worth it.
HTH.

 

[mpiton62]

my biggest thing is i don't want to transfer the ich or cyno to the new tank. I want to attack it. My thought are i keep both tanks up and running and have one fish only to get rid of the ich in both tank and then slowly move coral and rock over to the 220 making sure that there is no cyno attached to the rock.

 

[ali1]

If ur fish got ich, ur entire tank got ich. I wouldn't transfer anything from your old to your new. Start with a fresh tank and let it cycle. While its cycling, take all ur fish and put them in a QT for 6 weeks. In the QT, you can use hypo or copper to treat ich.

 

[DopeCantWin]

if ur fish got ich, ur entire tank got ich. I wouldn't transfer anything from your old to your new. Start with a fresh tank and let it cycle. While its cycling, take all ur fish and put them in a qt for 6 weeks. In the qt, you can use hypo or copper to treat ich.

+1

 

[Timber77]

The cyano wont transfer if nothing is there to feed it, i would figure out what is fueling the cyano first. Most likely ro membrane or old halides?

ich just qt the fish as above for a couple months

 

[degibson84]

+1

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[mpiton62]

Couldn't I transfer the water all place all fish into QT? I believe ich dies off when no fish are present.

 

[Lsufiregal]

Couldn't I transfer the water all place all fish into QT? I believe ich dies off when no fish are present.

True but you would need to run the tank fishless for 10 weeks to ensure it dies off.

To me it would be easier to set up the tank with new rock and sand and let it completely cycle while you treat your fish for ich. You can leave corals and inverts in your 75 and run it fishless for 10 weeks and then transfer that and you won't be taking the risk of transferring ich. Maybe others can chime in on whether or not dipping the corals would kill ich.