Thanks for your advice atnixon.
My new tank is about 2.25 times bigger (270L vs. 120L), here I got more questions about adding additional water and sand and .....
1) Do you recommend me to put my old sand in the display tank or in the sump? Since I have bought some new sand (CaribSea aragonite live sand, same as my old sand), if I put the old sand in the display tank, shall I put it at the bottom covering with the new sand or vice versa? Do you recommend people to run a bare bottom? And why?
2) In order to run the sump, the water must be full in the new tank, so if I move all the old water (120L) to the new tank, I need to have additionally 150L (270L - 120L) new water, which is about 56%. Since I have quite a lot corals, this may not be appropriated to introduce that amount of new water in a time. I can add 20% of new water and temporarily not running the sump and to use my old filter instead, but this is just too troublesome.
3) Heard that some people "cock" their LRs by darkness for 3 days in order to remove the ugly algae, I also want to do so but would it remove some of the beneficial bacteria? Or shall I just use fresh water to clean them using aggresive method!
4) The guy from the LFS told me that to buy some black and white bioballs, what is the difference between black and white? Where to put them? Ok if not having the bioballs? How does it work?
Putting all these together will introduce a new environment to my corals/ fishes/inverts (new sand, nitrite/nitrate may introduce to the new tank from my old sand, new sump without bacteria, new water, cleaned LRs (may have 3 days without LRs)). So I have the following way but not sure whether it really worth to do so, please take a look:
Run the new displace tank without the sump, only a wave maker for some water current, clean half of my LRs from my old tank and place them together with sponges and things for filtering into the display tank, kick start the N-cycle by putting some dead shrimps (heard that people pee into the tank for introducing ammonia to the tank, disgusting put really want to try =P) into the tank, of course pouring some old tank water into the new tank to speed up the process.
Wait for the N-cycle complete, transfer the sponges and filtering things to the sump, clean and transfer the rest of the LRs from my old tank to the new tank, all 120L old water add to the new tank to start the sump, move all corals/fishes/inverts to the new tank.
Noted any problem? Or this is just not worth to do so, just put everything to the new tank with 56% new water and new sand. What is the BEST practice arround the world?
My new tank is about 2.25 times bigger (270L vs. 120L), here I got more questions about adding additional water and sand and .....
1) Do you recommend me to put my old sand in the display tank or in the sump? Since I have bought some new sand (CaribSea aragonite live sand, same as my old sand), if I put the old sand in the display tank, shall I put it at the bottom covering with the new sand or vice versa? Do you recommend people to run a bare bottom? And why?
2) In order to run the sump, the water must be full in the new tank, so if I move all the old water (120L) to the new tank, I need to have additionally 150L (270L - 120L) new water, which is about 56%. Since I have quite a lot corals, this may not be appropriated to introduce that amount of new water in a time. I can add 20% of new water and temporarily not running the sump and to use my old filter instead, but this is just too troublesome.
3) Heard that some people "cock" their LRs by darkness for 3 days in order to remove the ugly algae, I also want to do so but would it remove some of the beneficial bacteria? Or shall I just use fresh water to clean them using aggresive method!
4) The guy from the LFS told me that to buy some black and white bioballs, what is the difference between black and white? Where to put them? Ok if not having the bioballs? How does it work?
Putting all these together will introduce a new environment to my corals/ fishes/inverts (new sand, nitrite/nitrate may introduce to the new tank from my old sand, new sump without bacteria, new water, cleaned LRs (may have 3 days without LRs)). So I have the following way but not sure whether it really worth to do so, please take a look:
Run the new displace tank without the sump, only a wave maker for some water current, clean half of my LRs from my old tank and place them together with sponges and things for filtering into the display tank, kick start the N-cycle by putting some dead shrimps (heard that people pee into the tank for introducing ammonia to the tank, disgusting put really want to try =P) into the tank, of course pouring some old tank water into the new tank to speed up the process.
Wait for the N-cycle complete, transfer the sponges and filtering things to the sump, clean and transfer the rest of the LRs from my old tank to the new tank, all 120L old water add to the new tank to start the sump, move all corals/fishes/inverts to the new tank.
Noted any problem? Or this is just not worth to do so, just put everything to the new tank with 56% new water and new sand. What is the BEST practice arround the world?
