Moving

[ramsey]

Moving the 175 even with all the planning in the world was still not easy with live stock, rock and sand. It took a decent sized uhaul, two 120G stock tanks, numerous buckets, battery powered air pumps, etc. Smaller tanks would be a lot easier but large tanks, forget it. It was a 175 bow front and took four of us to load/unload the heavy beast. Also, there was no way the sand bed was going to stay intact unless we used a crane. A guy at a LFS told me not to disturb the sand bed which was nice in theory but was next to impossible in practice. I took the sand out, then put it back in and added a ton of bio spira. I didn't have any losses at all. It can be done, but I'll never do it again.

You have the right idea with setting a new tank up on the other side. That gives you time to plumb and all that good stuff. I hated feeling super rushed when I did the 175 move.