Upgrade from 3ft to 4ft

[comet88]

Dear all

Need all the kind advise from anyone who has done any upgrade???????? still has 2 pails of dead rocks for my new 4ft tank so do i need to cycle again or just transfer my present 3ft live rocks & stocks over ???

Many thanks in advance ...

[onizukaa]

Hi,

if you have the time and place, setup the 4feet tank at the place you desire and scrape / salt mix / put all the sand you want / dose bacteria and start cultivate bacteria.

Do the cycling test (ammonia -> nitrite -> nitrate) test and once completed the cycle.

Can move your live stock slowly over.

You can add the existing 3 feet rocks over to make it more stable.

-------------

if you have no space and no time, transferring all over at one shot might leads to casualty.

Go slow and steady with bacteria dosing will be one step you wont regret

[comet88]

Hi,

if you have the time and place, setup the 4feet tank at the place you desire and scrape / salt mix / put all the sand you want / dose bacteria and start cultivate bacteria.

Do the cycling test (ammonia -> nitrite -> nitrate) test and once completed the cycle.

Can move your live stock slowly over.

You can add the existing 3 feet rocks over to make it more stable.

-------------

if you have no space and no time, transferring all over at one shot might leads to casualty.

Thanks bro

Go slow and steady with bacteria dosing will be one step you wont regret

[comet88]

Hi bro do you think i can transfer all my live rocks from my 3ft to the 4ft first just to speed up the process of cycling ??? left the live stocks & the soft corals.

[onizukaa]

If you transfer all the live rocks, then the existing tank will crashed if you don’t have enough bacteria to break down ammonia... (Unless you got many biohome/bacteria house)

so back to square one... why not wait 1 month + for the bacteria to cultivate and enjoy in the long run then putting all livestock together one shot and let it die 1 by one (not saying it definitely will, but the possibility is higher)

this is what i think,suggestion to you and HTH

[comet88]

If you transfer all the live rocks, then the existing tank will crashed if you don’t have enough bacteria to break down ammonia... (Unless you got many biohome/bacteria house)

so back to square one... why not wait 1 month + for the bacteria to cultivate and enjoy in the long run then putting all livestock together one shot and let it die 1 by one (not saying it definitely will, but the possibility is higher)

this is what i think,suggestion to you and HTH

Using canister for my 3 ft at the moment ....advise noted ....

[comet88]

anymore input