I have a shallow 45G reef tank, mainly SPS. About 55 total volume with sump. Currently my tank has been on cruise control for almost a year, problem free. Prior to this I had a few hiccups.
My SPS have never been better..
I was leaning towards an upgrade here early this year. But now I am facing a layoff so it would be smart of me to hold off for a bit until I see how that works out.
In preparation for the new tank I fragged all my colonies to plugs and disks. So basically I have a nice frag tank now.
Here is what I want to do. I want to completely change my scape, all new rock. Go BB and remove the sandbed, but I want to do this all at one time as I do not have another tank to store my current livestock in.
Ideally I would like to use 100% new LR as my current tank has a good bit of apstasia and a ton of bubble algae, more importantly I want to adjust the layout to accommodate more flow for my SPS.
Is this possible? Can I just drain, clean and throw some liverock in with some fresh SW without having a cycle to keep my happy SPS going? Or am I being unrealistic?
My SPS have never been better..
I was leaning towards an upgrade here early this year. But now I am facing a layoff so it would be smart of me to hold off for a bit until I see how that works out.
In preparation for the new tank I fragged all my colonies to plugs and disks. So basically I have a nice frag tank now.
Here is what I want to do. I want to completely change my scape, all new rock. Go BB and remove the sandbed, but I want to do this all at one time as I do not have another tank to store my current livestock in.
Ideally I would like to use 100% new LR as my current tank has a good bit of apstasia and a ton of bubble algae, more importantly I want to adjust the layout to accommodate more flow for my SPS.
Is this possible? Can I just drain, clean and throw some liverock in with some fresh SW without having a cycle to keep my happy SPS going? Or am I being unrealistic?