Moving and starting over

[Trojans]

So it time to move again, as with the military life, the hard part is taking down the old tank, the fun part is starting a new one with all the ideas that have come along during the old tanks reign.
I have also realized that since I have to move about every three to four years I should invest in mobile type equipment, so the next tank stand will be done in T-Slot aluminum, its light and can be broken down for transport very easily. I will also be using 40 breeders instead of the 150 Acrylic I had set up while here in Tennessee. It was my fist big tank, and I scratched it many a time, as well as my wife. So that will be fixed over time, for when I get out of the military and settle back in Washington state.
Currently plan on doing two 40 breeders side by side, with another breeder as the refugium. 1 breeder will be set up for a display tank with hammer, acans, zoas, and misc, as well as fish. 1 breeder will be all anemone and clowns, hopefully doing anemone propagation out of it, as I have had many anemone split while in my tanks. Lights will be the same as previous set ups, Aqua Illumination Hydra 52, those came along as I had a light fixture failure two days prior to me deploying, which was not a good time. So after contacting A.I. they said I could either send it to them for evaluation and fix or upgrade, to the 52's, I said I would probably upgrade anyways with out the incident, so I did that, but I wasn't able to set them up and use them until I returned from deployment.
I am currently still selling off left over corals from my 150, that have been transferred to a 40 breeder, Set up a transport container for the trip to North Carolina, to be in while I we look for a new place to live and start over. Then find all the clubs and Facebook pages in the area, which so far doesn't seem to be a lot, but still looking. More to follow

 

[steelheader.262]

Good luck with the new build, keep us posted.

 

[Trojans]

I prep my equipment to use for the trip. Since I will not be packing and loading my stuff, I have to break the tank down prior to the movers arriving and then check into a local hotel until I can clear my house with the rental company, then two days on the road stopping at a hotel and then hopefully no longer than a week at another hotel, until we can find a new home to stay in.
Bringing,

1 Salt water 5 gallon
1 RO/Di 5 gallon

1 bucket to mix more saltwater, going to be changing out 1 gallon every two days.

1 bucket with a couple of live rocks and Red Dragon and Cheateo Alge

1 bucket of left over Red Sea salt

1 Carrier for the corals and 1 Clown, 1 Damsel
the lid of the carrier will have a acrylic window,
three 12in strips of Ecoxotic panorama pro strips with dimmer inline, the sealant for the window is drying thats why the leds are not in place.

More to follow when I get ready to transfer to the carrier.

 

[Trojans]

I am here in Fayetteville, NC, start house hunting today, everything has done good in the move, I had to add to the transport set up, went to the dollar store and got some containers, I didn't expect that much movement during the trip, but it was enough to make me worry. So put what I could in the containers. Had to move the transport from old house to vehicle to hotel for three nights, then on the road and then two more hotels. In all I had to move the transport 6 times, there was a lot of water shifting, which made me nervous. But so far it was pretty good, just one more move than re establishing a tank set up after my stuff arrives. There was some tissue damage to a candy cane, and two hammers broke off the frag mount.