[Packer Lakerfan4]

I currently have a 150 gallon tall glass FOWLR i have a hippo tang, naso tang, yellow tank, false clown, 2 blue chromis, 6 line wrass, red coris wrass, about 15 hermit crabs and around 20 snails and a peppermint shrimp it has been running for about 6 months. I want a longer tank to give the 3 tangs more room to swim so i've decided i want a normal 150 tank or maybe a little bigger and longer i will be putting everything from my 150 tall into the new tank im gonna wait until around tax returns to get the new one though i want to keep a number of corals. I have about 140 pounds of LR and a 4 inch LS/crushed coral bed my new tank will be reef ready and will have a sump which i have never worked with before (Ill be starting a new thread about sump set up soon enough) i want to keep all the live rock...i know i will need more because of longer length of the new one i would also like to transfer as much water as possible to cause the least amount of stress possible on the animals. any information will be greatly appreciated and i'd like to get through this without loosing any of the fish. hopefully someone has experience doing something like this. Thanks!!!!!

PS...if anyone lives in the kansas area and is looking for a bigger tank i will be selling the 150 tall in a few months

[Packer Lakerfan4]

Nobody has any advice?

[GKES]

Just saw your post. I just did this, but not as large. I went from a 55 gal to 75 gal. This is what I did and I did not loose a thing, including corals. I prepared and filled the new tank (about 25 gals) with new water mixed to the same temp and gravity/salt as was in the original tank. I then added about 25 gals of the old water to the new tank. I removed all live rock and placed it in the new tank. I the rock had coral, I kept is submirged. I then removed about 1/2 of the live sand. I cleaned the live sand with tap water. What a brown mess. I then placed the :uncleaded" sand in the new tank. I placed it in the new tank, and since the LR was already int he tank, no LR was sitting on top of the sand. I then placed the fish in the new tank and finished up with more water. About an equal amount of old and new water. I started up the new protein skimmer, heater and T-5's and monitored closely. Tank remained steady. No spikes in readings and normal dry skim from my skimmer. I have no idea if this was correct, but it worked for me. I have not lost a thing. In fact, beause of the upgrade to T-5's stuff is growing out of my live rock like mad. Hope this helps.