Playing Musical Tanks! Help moving.

[mike22cha]

Well this weekend my dad and I are going to move my 20g from my moms to my dads. I have 2 small poylps and a small shell with zoos on it in my 125g. I am going to turn my 20g into a reef and my 125g to a fish only. My questions are:
Do I move my corals right away or wait till water is moving?
Can 2 green chromis and a 3 stripe damsel go in a 20g? Im planning on putting 2 b&w percula clowns in there. Is this overstocked? I would keep the fish in my 125 but I want to get an eel.
Will a carpet anemone go okay in a 20g?
My current stock list for my 125g:
1 purple tang
1sailfin tang
2green chromis
1three stripe damsel
Asorted inverts
I'm planning on moving small pieces of live rock to my 20 so I will have a tank full of rock for the reef and then Ill get some base rock later, because I heard eels will topple rocks.
Unfortunatly Im not getting alot of money and will soon be broke because of spring break. Should I wait before changing tank's rocks and corals? I am planning on getting a job this summer, I cant right now because of baseball.
Comments welcome!

 

[triga22]

Adding the percs to the 20 would be over stocked. I would add the corals to the 20 after everything is settled. Just leave the corals in a bucket with a heater and power head for and hour or 2 before you acclimate them to the 20.

 

[mike22cha]

Okay well then I will risk leaving the fish in the 125g because I first bought the tank to get a pair of b&w percs. Im not getting an eel right away so thats okay.

 

[triga22]

Yea sorry. I can only get away with 4 small fish in my 29.

 

[mike22cha]

Im scared that my 125 is going to look terrible with some of the rocks gone. Hopefully I will get enough $$ to get base rock. Thanks!

 

[mike22cha]

I looked at the carpet anemones and they grow pretty large. Will it be okay in the 20g with other corals?

 

[mike22cha]

What anemone besides a carpet would host two black and white percula clowns? I looked at compatibility charts and I'm confused. The black and white perculas sold on swf.com says the are amphiprion ocellaris.

Would a bta host a pair of b&w percs?

 

[mike22cha]

Well since no one is answering my questions here are some pics of my purple tang.

 

[zanoshanox]

B&W clowns generally wont host because they're all tank bred so they don't have that instinct. very few will. the best way to get them to host, IMO is to house them with some hosting true percs or false percs and maybe they'll catch on?

 

[mike22cha]

I thought aggression would be between the different types of clowns. Well I may just get an anemone and clowns and if they dont host then that will be okay since the anemones that host the b&w percs are more harder to take care of. Or at a fish store that frequently sells b&w percs they have an anemone, Im not quite sure on what kind I'll ask next time, that the clowns usually host with.

 

[mike22cha]

Well tommorow we are going to do the big move.

Here's the plan:
1. Dismatle tank and drain water into a 32g trash can with a bag linning it.
2. Load equipement into a trailer.
3.Remove rocks from both tanks and put them into the 32g
4.Put Corals and rocks into a 5g bucket.
5.Arrive at the house and unload everything, get the tank set up.
6. Add water and sand.
7. Wait for it to settle and add the live rock.
8.Wait for the water to stable and then add corals.
Any thing else? Later, since my water level was really low I will start mixing water and aging that.

 

[mike22cha]

Also since there is no fish in my 20g after acclimation of the corals cant I add all the water back in with the corals?

 

[triga22]

Sounds good. Wait for it to settle as you stated. If fish are going in too wait to put them in last. Also get the temp strait b4 anything goes in.

 

[mike22cha]

ya Im not putting in the fish because of the b&w percs. Man I wish I had $$$ because I need so much crap for both tanks. Oh well I'm excited still.

 

[seattle]

LOL! Might as well flame Martini for having fish in her nano's I got 2 percs in a 12 and they are the most HEALTHY fish i've seen.They swim constant and claim there little area even though there's nothing else in the tank right now but live rock and snails

 

[mike22cha]

Crap, my dad isn't going to help today since rain and he is painting the study so it will be after spring break.