Upgrading questions

[kimmy13x]

Hi i'm currently running a 50 gallon reef tank 5 months in and i'm wanting to upgrade i have plan to get a 120 gal BUT i need to put it in the same spot as my 50; can someone brief me on the complications this will bring? and or how (if it is) this will be possible?


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[kimmy13x]

here's my setup

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[FirstContact]

Here are a couple of good articles:

http://kb.marinedepot.com/article.aspx?id=10158
http://kb.marinedepot.com/article.aspx?id=10159

 

[nereefpat]

I would partially drain the tank until you can scoot it out of the way.

Set up the 120. Cycle it. Match parameters (salinity, temp, alk). Move over livestock and any rock you want to reuse.

 

[thegrun]

I did exactly the same thing, moved up from a 50 to a 120. I first cycled the additional rock I was going to add to the new system in a Brute trash can. After the cycle was complete I moved the fish, rock and corals from the 50 into a couple more Brute trash cans with as much clean water as I could get out of the 50 gallon tank. I then removed the 50, set up the 120, heated the new water and added the new cycled rock. I was then able to safely transfer all the old rock, corals and fish into the new 120. Plan on a long day's work!

 

[nereefpat]

Good idea, grun.

 

[homer1475]

I did exactly the same thing, moved up from a 50 to a 120. I first cycled the additional rock I was going to add to the new system in a Brute trash can. After the cycle was complete I moved the fish, rock and corals from the 50 into a couple more Brute trash cans with as much clean water as I could get out of the 50 gallon tank. I then removed the 50, set up the 120, heated the new water and added the new cycled rock. I was then able to safely transfer all the old rock, corals and fish into the new 120. Plan on a long day's work!

Not quite the same, but I did the exact same thing when I went from a biocube to a 80. Precycled the rock in a brute, pulled everything from the biocube into containers, emptied the biocube, transferred everything over, added new rock, put in livestock. Had 0 issues. As long as your new rock is cycled and your not adding any new bioload to the new tank for a bit, everything should be fine.

It was most certainly a full days worth of work.

 

[ryeguyy84]

Make more water than you think you'll need, trust me on that one. I was 10 gallons short when I upgraded and it really held things up.

Ended up having to buy the overpriced Petco natural seawater to fill the last 10 gallons since it was the only thing open

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