"Sliding" the tank?

[MichaelReefer]

Well, the lady and I are re doing the kitchen this year, as well as the floor. While I am super excited, I am REALLY not looking forward to moving the tank around the room. She wants me to move it to the back of the room instead of where its at (therefore, I must move it). My thought was to have the flooring people come out and do about 75% of the house and come back a few days later so I can move the tank from where it's currently at...What I am trying to figure out, is if I can just empty the tank/sump and slide it to the back of the room, or if I should physically remove the tank, move the stand, and put the tank back on it. The tank is a 525xl (about 150 gallon system). Anyone done this before? Or is it better to remove the tank and move everything separately?

Appreciate the help!

 

[Chrisv.]

I'd be pretty nervous that the tank stand is not designed to handle the shear force of pushing it. If you managed to push the stand without compromising it's integrity, the tank would probably be fine, as long as the pushing happened on the stand.

I'm not familiar with how your stand is constructed but a 525xl is not a small or light tank... And full of rock/coral .... Eeeeeeee. Idk dude.

 

[MichaelReefer]

I'd be pretty nervous that the tank stand is not designed to handle the shear force of pushing it. If you managed to push the stand without compromising it's integrity, the tank would probably be fine, as long as the pushing happened on the stand.

I'm not familiar with how your stand is constructed but a 525xl is not a small or light tank... And full of rock/coral .... Eeeeeeee. Idk dude.

Yeah, that was my thought. Moving my Reefer 250 sucked enough, now I've had this 525XL, and having to move it 20 feet....ugh not looking forward to it. Haha. The only good thing about moving it is I can give it a good cleaning lol.

 

[Chrisv.]

Yeah, that was my thought. Moving my Reefer 250 sucked enough, now I've had this 525XL, and having to move it 20 feet....ugh not looking forward to it. Haha

Though it will suck to move it in a controlled way, imagine what it would be like to deal with if the stand collapsed with a tank on board. No bueno. That would possibly lead me to "take a break" personally.

 

[MichaelReefer]

Though it will suck to move it in a controlled way, imagine what it would be like to deal with if the stand collapsed with a tank on board. No bueno. That would possibly lead me to "take a break" personally.

Yeah...valid point.

 

[homer1475]

Just did this this past spring. Took my tank down to have floors installed.

I put everything in those nice HDX totes from lowes with a heater an airstone in a spare room. Removed the tank, cleaned the sand really well with tap water, cleaned the tank, and sump up. Was also a great time to deep clean all my equipment.

3 days later I replaced everything, and lost nothing. Much better to remove everything, then have the stand collapse with everything in it.

 

[hubble]

Just did this this past spring. Took my tank down to have floors installed.

I put everything in those nice HDX totes from lowes with a heater an airstone in a spare room. Removed the tank, cleaned the sand really well with tap water, cleaned the tank, and sump up. Was also a great time to deep clean all my equipment.

3 days later I replaced everything, and lost nothing. Much better to remove everything, then have the stand collapse with everything in it.

This................

 

[MichaelReefer]

Just did this this past spring. Took my tank down to have floors installed.

I put everything in those nice HDX totes from lowes with a heater an airstone in a spare room. Removed the tank, cleaned the sand really well with tap water, cleaned the tank, and sump up. Was also a great time to deep clean all my equipment.

3 days later I replaced everything, and lost nothing. Much better to remove everything, then have the stand collapse with everything in it.

Yeah, this is what I was thinking about doing.... Gonna be an entire weekend of work it sounds like. Guess I was trying to find an easier way of doing it lol.

 

[homer1475]

Took me about 5 hours to take it down, and get it out on my porch. Granted only 80G cube, but I still used 3 totes as I have many mature colonies of SPS so I couldn't just pile the rocks in a tote. I also separated the fish into a couple of the totes so I could keep the bioload low in each tote(don't need an ammonia spike from a little bit of rock, and all the fish in one tote).

Took about 3 days to get it totally set back up(about 6 hours to get everything back in the tank, and life support up and running). Quite a bit of that time was just re running wires, as I built a new stand while I was at it(old one was falling apart, stupid OSB), and getting my apex and equipment all situated.

It wasn't really hard, just alot of rushing around once I started replacing rock, corals, fish, inverts, etc.

 

[MichaelReefer]

Took me about 5 hours to take it down, and get it out on my porch. Granted only 80G cube, but I still used 3 totes as I have many mature colonies of SPS so I couldn't just pile the rocks in a tote. I also separated the fish into a couple of the totes so I could keep the bioload low in each tote(don't need an ammonia spike from a little bit of rock, and all the fish in one tote).

Took about 3 days to get it totally set back up(about 6 hours to get everything back in the tank, and life support up and running). Quite a bit of that time was just re running wires, as I built a new stand while I was at it(old one was falling apart, stupid OSB), and getting my apex and equipment all situated.

It wasn't really hard, just alot of rushing around once I started replacing rock, corals, fish, inverts, etc.

Yeah, I am planning on having literally everything ready so once I move it I can get it done. I am going to grab a few white cabinets that match the Red Sea color and set them up, one on each side as well for all my controllers and such. Hoping to get it all done in one day. Haha. Really trying to avoid having to move the aquarium to the outside of house. So my plan is to either have them do part of the house and come back to finish, or have people there on standby to move the tank when they finish that part where its going.