switching tanks help please??

[abong]

i have a 29 gallon tank and want to start switching everything over to a 75 gallon i purchased. I have had the 75 setup for 3 weeks now and is done cycling. I have about 20 lbs of live rock in the 75 and 25 in the 29. I have 1 damsel in the 75 as well. I want to transfer 3 more damsels, 2 clowns, 1 fire shrimp, 1 bta, rock, and various hermits and snails. what is the best way of doing this with minimal deaths?

[r6413utah]

I would use two 2 liter bottles over the next few days and drill a drip hole in them exchange the water between the tanks until they are the same. Then transfer everyone. I went from the 75 higher in the air then the 20 with air hose and then from the 20 down to my wetdry on the 75 with airhose let that go for a few days and the transfer went great until I introdiced a sick tang to the mess.

[tims]

make sur ethe SG levels are the same.add a fish over slowly letting the tank catch up

[abong]

Both of my tanks are full of water. How can i transfer water over?
Or do I fill 1 2liter bottle with the 29 water and one with the 75 water and slowly make all the water the same? Is that what you meant?

[r6413utah]

Yes, if you cannot use a small hose then use 2 jugs of som type that you can make a small hole in to tricke. Fill each jug from eah of the tanks then swicht juggs and let trickle.

[abong]

awesome!!!thank you very much. now that i understand how to switch the water over so that it is the same, how do i transfer the corals over?do i just pick it up and move it with it attatched to the rock in a bucket? do i seperate it from the rock and transfer it in a bag?

[is_that_a_fish]

if the coral is attached to a rock i would leave it and just transfer the rock and coral over. Be sure to have as minimal air contact as you can or your coral could perish.

[r6413utah]

picture 40 feet of airhose going from the top of my 75 to a 20 gal that is about two feet lower (Thank you for gravity) then from teh top of the 20 gal back 40 to the w/d under the 75 (again thank you gravity) then the w/d put sent it back up to the 75...

Can you take a gallon milk jug and cut (cleaning it well) it so that the rock/coral fits into the jug and stays under water or is the rock to big?

[abong]

well im switching this:



to this:


i cant fit it in a milk jug, but i do have something i can put the entire rock in. thanx for the advice

[r6413utah]

I am doing the same thing this am for my sick tank. Moving fish from the 20 to the 55 and then my huma from the 75 to the 20. then I can medicate. So far I have lost my golby, dollyback, one cleaner wrass but I think he had problems to begin with Picked another one up last night for half the price and he has cleaned the tang clean.


I am tring to think what you can use to get into that tank.

Do you have a biglots close by? There have a few different size pans and buckets. I picked up a 24 quart clear trash buckets with lid I am using is a wagon to transfer.