Moving

[Southern Flame]

Yea and I was a ball of nerves I didn't post the day cause it was the same day as the meeting

[ramsey]

I moved a 185 from Austin to new braunfels and it's terrible. I don't think I'll ever do a move like that again. I'd just sell out and start over.

[Tempset]

Moves can be easy if planned properly.

http://www.melevsreef.com/moving_a_tank.html

[Flyride95]

I'm about to move but I'm going to move up in tank at the same time. I have a 90gal in my garage with live rock in it just circulating water. When I move I'm bringing the 90gal over first and setting up the rocks placing the new live sand down and putting as much of the water that is I there now back into it. Then I'm going to come bag up all my fish and corals and suck up more gal of saltwater and bring it over. When I'm all finished ill have a 55gal here and all my fish will be in there new home.

[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.

[Southern Flame]

Agreed they said don't disturb the sand bed but there was no way with the 90 I scooped as much as I could out with a coffee cup and plus I had to find the 2 brittles and conch (who was buried btw) hubby said same never again keep tank and stand sell everything else if we have to move again lol but our next move will be a house we buy or moving back to Louisiana and thankfully we have a ton of ice chest so the small amout of frags and fish were fine no losses except my hair lol

[Big_Pun]

its not bad with right gear and people who are in the hobby and know what to do. Aaron and i have moved plenty of reef tanks and fresh water tanks for the shop. one thing that i recommend is have plenty of new water ready and always remove the old sand. as soon as you empty the water out the tank, temp swings start and will kill bacteria in sand bed, on short trips you be able to get away with it, also a good bacteria starter is great, like dr tims one and only, ATM has a good one. the hardest part is doing it in a timely manner, i use a mag 24 or 18 to transfer water out into holding containers or to the street to empty tank quickly. just always plan for the worse, get new bulk heads and plumbing.

[Southern Flame]

We were lucky we didn't have any probs except emergency run to aquarium adventure for a longer over flow hose no losses and we used ice chests to preserve the warmth and I transferred the sand in a styrofoam box that is used to ship fish in lol

my fresh water tank was a walk in the park my fish are as old as my oldest child and meaner than sin it would take leaving them out of water for them to croak lol