Moving 30 gallon tank a few streets over

[Kapachuka3]

I have a 32.5 gallon saltwater tank.

inhabitants:
1 pencil urchin
2 clownfish
3 pj cardinals
1 ywg
4 conchs
1 turbo snail (spawning)
Around 6 nassarius snails
1 cleaner shrimp
1 gsp frag

huge Kenya tree that is encrusted on several rocks.

any tips on how to move this huge tank? im moving a couple blocks away.

 

[jabberwock]

I have been reading up on this as I need to move my tank to another room and stand. Best things I have discovered so far are:

• lots of 5 gallon buckets with lids
• get as much water and rock out of the tank as possible
• slide a 3/4 piece of ply wood under the tank, and carry the board instead of the tank (this takes the stress of the seams from a couple people wrestling with the tank)
• Plan everything out in advance, have all equipment assembled and ready to go
• have a contingency plan to deal with unforeseen issues (bubblers on hand, heaters ready to turn on in multiple buckets)
• divide fish and some rock into separate buckets to minimize stress
• be careful about things shifting in buckets that might squash livestock
• any water left in the tank may slosh around and change the weight distribution catastrophically
• You may be able to hire a company to do this for you

I hope it goes well for you.

 

[Aquaplumb]

Good advise from jabberwock. feel your pain I just moved a 55 gal setup, took longer than I first thought especially redoing the plumbing for the sump and cable management so put a heater in the display when you get the the new location. Best advise hire someone to do it. I said I would never do it again. I didn’t loose anything luckily

 

[Kapachuka3]

Good advise from jabberwock. feel your pain I just moved a 55 gal setup, took longer than I first thought especially redoing the plumbing for the sump and cable management so put a heater in the display when you get the the new location. Best advise hire someone to do it. I said I would never do it again. I didn’t loose anything luckily

I’m thinking about getting somebody to do it actually i was debating it. Sounds pretty hard to move a tank by myself, but my lfs overprices their stuff a ton though so i was trying to avoid it.