Originally Posted by gmusick
I made the conversion about a month ago on a 35 gallon tank. I did it differently than Blemmy, but I didn't lose a single fish, invert or coral either. Since your tank, like mine, is small, it is easy to do all at one time. My only concern with Blemmy's solution, when I did mine, was that I was afraid of getting a mini-cycle when I removed my CC from my tank. Here is how I did mine...
- I bought 2 30 gallon rubbermaid containers
- I emptied 1/4 of my tank water into one container
- I then removed all of my LR and put it in that container
- I emptied 1/4 of my tank water into the 2nd container
- I then caught all of my fish and inverts and put them into the 2nd container
- I then unhooked my equipment and put a PH and heater into the 2nd container
- I emptied the rest of my water, splitting it between the two containers, down to just above the CC substrate.
- I then removed all of my CC and cleaned out my tank
- I added my LS
- Since my tank is a hex, I took a large serving plate and laid it on the LS
- I slowly poured about 1/4 of my tank water back into the tank
- I then rebuilt my aquascaping with my LR
- I then put the rest of my water from my first container back into the tank.
- I unhooked my equipment that was running in the 2nd container and put it back in the tank
- I added half of the water from my 2nd container back to the tank
- I caught and put my livestock back into my tank
- I added the rest of the water from the 2nd container
- I turned on all my equipment
It worked like a champ!
Hope this helps!
Glen
I have a couple of Q's?........
You removed all your CC with what tool?
Simply shoveled it out?
I heard if you remove all your CC you'll lose some important bacteria that was once in the CC, is this true?
Did you seed your LS?
My 30 gal tank is rectangular with
50 lbs of live rock
2 maroon clowns
1 dwarf fuxxy lionfish
2 damsels
1 cardinalfish
1 cleanershrimp
1 flame scallop