• How to properly transition to a larger volume?

  • Kevin8087

Dear marine aquarium enthusiasts! Please advise how to properly and quickly expand the "living space" for the inhabitants (soft corals, ocellaris clownfish, cardinalfish, foxface rabbitfish, boxer shrimp and Tonga shrimp). I have a 130-liter aquarium, a 100-liter sump, and 170 liters of water. I plan to have a450-liter system, keeping the old sump. I plan to do the following: 1. Pour 100 liters of fresh water and 50 liters from my current aquarium into the 450-liter system, add sand, place cured live rock or dry reef rock (depending on the budget), and install a pump. Let it stand for a week (ordo 10-liter water changes daily and add the old water to the 450-liter system). Is this plan necessary for just a week? 2. Transfer the rock from the old aquarium, carefully move the fish, and gently pour the sand (do I need to wash the sand, as the aquarium has been running for 8 months?).

Eric8832

Here is the topic. It's relevant, but no one wants to develop it, and everyone has faced the restart but remains silent.

Melanie

Thank you! I got a bit confused because in that thread we were initially discussing the aging of J.K. (living stones) and so on, not moving to a larger volume, which is why I didn't write anything. I got completely confused. If someone finds it hard or feels sorry to help with advice, they can just sit there and polish their copper crowns with Goya paste. It's not our first time - we'll get through it!

Angel2396

What is there to develop and discuss? It's been described countless times, almost everything is outlined step by step in the Canek thread. ... Why marinate the water for a week? Gathered it, transferred half old and half new in a couple of days - gradually added. A laminar restart will happen anyway; if there are demanding corals, it's better to keep two systems for a while - I lost three corals in the first few days.

Nicholas2252

What corals have "disappeared"? If it's not a secret.

John3142

Ksyukha, Zhesik, and Kapnella, then another head of Euphilia.

Angela6489

It is best to pour sand into an empty aquarium, and then add water onto a newspaper that is placed on top of the sand - no cloudiness, no washouts, and no lifting of detritus residues.

Leonard

The newspaper is bad. Zinc and other debris in seawater... And then having to fish out the mushy newspaper scraps from the entire system... There is a mistake somewhere here.

Danielle

I never intended to shirk my responsibility. I just asked for advice, maybe someone knows some tricks or if I'm planning to do something wrong.

Anna9752

Oles, I don't see any difference in what should come first; everyone does it as they can or understand the process (considering the circumstances). I simply described the sequence, omitting many details that Islav might encounter while performing this action, as the question was about how to move from a small one to a large one (without details). Regarding the newspaper, if someone is afraid that all the periodic table will wash out during the water transfer, the newspaper can be replaced with a piece of cellophane film or something similar.

Andrew9581

Don't think that I doubt your experience. I just gave advice that would have saved me a lot of nerves and time back then - when pouring used sand through water, a specific "fog" still arose - it's impossible to wash old sand perfectly. We're not going to soak a newspaper there; you won't achieve much with just one pour. Additionally, you can take a plastic tray or simply a larger plate.