Put 44 gallons of cycled water in 55 gallon tank?

[liongirl]

I have a 44 gallon SW tank with damsels in it. Its been out of its cycle for about a month maybe two now. When i first got the tank a lfs told me to medicate with Rid-ICH when one of my damsels was sick and my seals are all turqoise. I am moving soon and would like to take everything in my 44 gallon SW tank and put it in a 55 gallon tank i am using for FW right now. Am I going to have another cycle if i put 44 gallons of cycled water and add more water (and probably salt)to the 55? I will also be moving over my cc and ls ... and adding more of the ls. Is this a good idea? I need to re-seal the 44 and start it all over again, but id like to start up my 55 ASAP. Please let me know. Thanks.

 

[jimi]

If you use as much stuff like live rock, sand and water from your old tank as possible you should be fine.Make the move quickly to avoid die off.

 

[nm reef]

Agree with jimi........if everything goes from one to the other with minimum die off shouldn't be a cycle.........but.........doesn't copper turn the seals green.....was that copper you used for meds.....I thought copper was bad for ls and lr...........may be wrong but thats what I was thinking.......

 

[fender]

If its blue in color it maybe methyl blue. Which on the bottle states (at least the bottle I have) that it will stain silicon. I don't believe that it has copper and the bottle I have says it does not destroy bacteria, so LS, LR should be fine from a cycling. Not necessarily any inverts in the LR/LS tho.
I used the methyl blue on a damsel that had some ICH and it cured it pretty quickly, I did however use it in a bowlwith hyposalinty water, not in my tank. I don't know how safe it would be to use in a tank, but blue silicon has to be a show stopper even if it was reef/LR/LS/invert safe.

 

[liongirl]

If i had a layer of play sand then a layer of cc then a layer of ls ... should i just try to transfer the ls and cc or just the ls to the new tank or does it all need to be moved over to keep the most beneficial bacteria?
How can i rinse the sand and anything else i dont move over to get out the beneficial bacteria and put it in the new tank?
Thanks.