**HELP**New Flooring & Tank move

[bonita69]

Hey eveyone,
I have 92 corner that is in my foyer, and new flooring is going to be installed.
How should we go about draining the tank to move it. I have 100lbs live rock, 3 corals, 1 green carpet, and several fish. Can we drain just enough to move the tank, then put the drained water back in the tank, after floors are down.
Leaving the fish and all corals in the tank while moved and low tank water. Installer said 2 days install for the stone work. Will my tank animals survive this process
Anybody that has gone through this process please input on the matter. How did your fish deal with it?

 

[jmesmcm]

When I moved my 90 for construction it was remove corals into a rubbermaid with water, heater and powerhead for circulation.
Remove LR into rubbermaid and cover with tank water
Drain remaining water into buckets or rubbermaid
Move tank to temporary location and reverse process refilling the tank. Also a great excuse for a good size water change, good idea to have a couple extra buckets of water available as can never seem to get all the water from the rubbermaids back into the tank.
Work efficiently and there should be no issues.
Good luck with the move.

 

[fishgeek01]

I would advise against moving a tank with water in it. Even leaving wet sand in it is enough weight to break the bottom seals out when you move it. If you are careful you can leave the sand in, but avoid tipping it, or bumping it (obviously), but take as much weight out of it as possible before moving it. If you are only thinking a couple days, I would take your stuff out put it in rubbermaids, put lights over the corals, keep liverock covered with water and if possible lit a little with light, fish will be fine in a bucket. No sense in tearing it down, setting it up, then tearing it down again and then re-setting it back up, 2 days will be just fine without the tank... hope this helps

 

[scotts]

I agree with geek101. But then I am a geek also so of course I would. :hilarious Things are going to get stirred up in your tank and the water is going to be kind of nasty for a little bit, so leaving your fish in there is not a good thing. Your fish will be fine for a couple of days in a temp container. I will let others talk about the anenome, not sure about that.

 

[monalisa]

So when is this all going to take place?
I agree with previous posters in that your rock and critters will be fine for 2 days in bins (I put heat & aeration in all bins, just to be on the safe side...but, that's me).
I hope everything goes well for you. Post pics of the process.
Lisa :happyfish

 

[baloo6969]

Originally Posted by bonita69
Hey eveyone,
I have 92 corner that is in my foyer, and new flooring is going to be installed.
How should we go about draining the tank to move it. I have 100lbs live rock, 3 corals, 1 green carpet, and several fish. Can we drain just enough to move the tank, then put the drained water back in the tank, after floors are down.
Leaving the fish and all corals in the tank while moved and low tank water. Installer said 2 days install for the stone work. Will my tank animals survive this process
Anybody that has gone through this process please input on the matter. How did your fish deal with it?
if it's in a corner, have the guys put in the floor around it...are they putting down a new HW floor? or linoleum?

 

[barchtruong]

I can imagine your fear...
I've never done any moving since I started my reef tank, but I'm well known to be such a big mover.
So my tank's been up for 5 months, and I have a little too many corals that settled in the tank, and I am thinking about changing my job, and that will put my tank in danger.
Hope everything goes well for your tank and the ur entire saltwater friends.
Take as many days off work as you could, move things as quickly and as carefully as you could and you should be ok. good luck

 

[murph]

I am a complete and total know it all expert when it come to this......well the floor covering part anyways :joy: Been in the business for 20 years.
The first thing you should do before breaking the tanks down is go to where your floor covering material is being stored and verify that the color, style and grade are what you ordered and also inspect for any defects which in the case of tile even means making sure the tiles are not off size from one box to the other.
It is not unusual these days for defects, ordering mistakes etc. to be discovered only by the installer on the day the work is set to begin and have these problems delay install in which case you will be repeating whatever process you chose to move/hold your tank inhabitants until the materials can be reordered properly.
It is even possible/probable that the retailer has scheduled your job before he even received the materials into his warehouse. Any kind of delay in shipping will mean you get a phone call from him wanting to reschedule your job also.