60 gallon build ( my story)

I started my first salt water tank in feb. 2008 two months before my son was born it was a 20 gallon tank with just some plain equipment. well shortly after my wife had our son she had acquired post par-tum depression and had to quit her job. So i then had to pick up a second job, i went to working 80 to 90 hours a week. shortly after i started the second job my tank took a complete dump my nitrates shot up to 40ppm and the saltlinity dropped off like something horrible i just didn't have the time to take care of it, so i gave all of my corals and fish to my buddy Trent at work which had gotten me started into the hobbie. I then worked the two jobs until September of last year. In April of this year i bought a 29 gal. tank and have had it running since and its doing great. My other buddy just told me couple of weeks ago that he was going to be selling his sixty gallon tank, its a awsome tank with a solid oak stand and absolutely scratch free glass.
so needless to say i'm buying it and cant wait to get started on it and upgrade to a bigger tank, i'm going to make it a reef and fish tank. i should be getting the tank today, I will put some pictures on here as soon as i get it here.

 

This is the tank when my buddy had it, he had it as a ciclid tank

 

wow, congratulations. I wish you luck with this, as I'm sure you don't need it. I look forward to seeing the pics, lol

 

thank you

 

Congrats on the new tank.

I live about an hour away. I have a 29g.

 

Thank you, i'm looking forward to it

 

Awesome! Can't wait to see it!

 

Quick question for you guys, when i get my 60 gal. set up would it be OK to just switch everything over to the new tank, i know it will probaly go through a small cycle but do you think my corals will do fine, i'm going to use all of the water from my current tank plus add about 20 gal. to the new tank?????

 

That is exactly what I did when I upgraded from my 16 gallon to my 40 breeder. I even added about 20 pounds of play sand and then since my sand was fairly new just put the sand from the 16 right on top of the play sand.

 

k cool thanks