Cycling and moving houses w/ sensitive corals

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Hi everyone, I have a 10gal with a good amount of coral, overstocked invertebrates, and two clowns. It has been running for 4 months. I'm moving in a couple weeks and have a new 55gal tank (with sump) setup at my new place. It has been setup for 7 weeks, cycled with Dr. Tims, ammonia reading 0.2 and nitrates 10+, did a 50% water change today. I bought a scolymia and two indo torches a week ago and they have opened up nicely. Ideally I would like to package up all the livestock and put them directly into the new tank - but should I be worried about putting these more sensitive/expensive corals in such a new system?

Would it be worth it to drain the 10gal, keep the rocks wet, reset it at the new place and put the sensitive corals back into it? Vs putting them directly into the new 7 week old tank?

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have you brought any of your rock or bio media from your old tank to seed your new tank?
No, there's vermetid snails in the 10gal so I was trying not to bring any live rock or sand over. technically the 10gal is supposed to be a quarantine tank for new additions to the DT, I just got carried away haha. But I have added Dinkins live rock and many copepods to the DT last week.
 

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