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veni vidi vici
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Originally Posted by lietz06
http:///forum/post/2846759
We are moving to a house about 30 minutes from here. What's the best/safest way to move it without losing anything?
lots of storage bins and a completely empty tank.
http:///forum/post/2846759
We are moving to a house about 30 minutes from here. What's the best/safest way to move it without losing anything?
lots of storage bins and a completely empty tank.
rebelprettyboy
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Wat size is the tank?
jimmy40741
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If you have an extra tank or two sitting around take them to your new house a day or two ahead of time and set them up. Fill them with water from the tank in your old house, turn on filters, heaters, etc. On the day you are going to move start by moving all of your livestock to the new house before you worry about moving the tank, LR, and LS. Your livestock can live just fine in these bare tanks for a few of days, if they have to, until your DT is back up and running. If you don't already have a bunch of carry totes/storage bins and buckets get some. Get all of your LR and LS in them and make sure they are covered by tank water. If it takes you a few trips that's fine. Get your tank to the new home and start setting it up.
t316
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I moved a 55 about 45 min. away. I first put all of the lr and corals in 5 gal. buckets with just enough tank water to cover them. Do the same with livestock, or bag them. Next I drained the water in the tank down to only about 3", just enough to keep the substrate covered. Put it all in the back of a pickup truck and did the move. Set it all back up, using the same water, and nothing was lost. The tank was a little cloudy from the 3" sloshing around in the tank on the road, but it cleared up soon.
coraljunkie
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Originally Posted by T316
http:///forum/post/2847592
I moved a 55 about 45 min. away. I first put all of the lr and corals in 5 gal. buckets with just enough tank water to cover them. Do the same with livestock, or bag them. Next I drained the water in the tank down to only about 3", just enough to keep the substrate covered. Put it all in the back of a pickup truck and did the move. Set it all back up, using the same water, and nothing was lost. The tank was a little cloudy from the 3" sloshing around in the tank on the road, but it cleared up soon.
Exactly how I moved my 55. Didn't lose a thing
http:///forum/post/2847592
I moved a 55 about 45 min. away. I first put all of the lr and corals in 5 gal. buckets with just enough tank water to cover them. Do the same with livestock, or bag them. Next I drained the water in the tank down to only about 3", just enough to keep the substrate covered. Put it all in the back of a pickup truck and did the move. Set it all back up, using the same water, and nothing was lost. The tank was a little cloudy from the 3" sloshing around in the tank on the road, but it cleared up soon.
Exactly how I moved my 55. Didn't lose a thing