Moving (2) Huge Tanks In One Day!!! God Help Us

GREAT SUCCESS!!!! ;D Well it took a total of 16 hrs spread out over 2 days this weekend but we have both set ups in place and so far zero casualties. We wound up using a full size empty cargo van that we had running in both locations for the whole day but it was worth it because we kept the heat blasting all day an we didn't lose too much temp. I do have a couple of suggestions for anyone attempting to move a large reef set up first:

(1) Make sure you check the location of the new set up make sure that if you are not on a concrete slab that the position of the tank is close to a load bearing wall or that if neccesary the floor is reinforced. The owner of the tanks is a carpenter and he did add some structural support to the floor joists ahead of time.

(2) Invest in some extra plumbing suppies ahead of time I snapped an overflow bulkhead fitting during reassembly ( it is only plastic after all)
and we were going to be really up #$@! creek if I hadn't been able to run to a LFS and get one (THANK GOD) also some of the barbed fittings on the UV snapped. I would have an assortment of any fitting you currently have on hand if at all possible.

(3) Save your Reef Crystal salt pails they are perfect for packing up corals and fish because they seal so well we had about 20 of them between us and they were perfect for the transportation of that stuff.

 

Good luck1!!!

 

Glad to hear it, congrats!!

 

whew you sure are brave

 

Good to hear, kudos

 

Man, that was a long time to hold my breath.....

 

Or rent a generator from Home Depot.