Need moving advice/?supplies

[johara]

It appears to be time to rip out the living room carpet and put down laminate. All good, except for the 155 Gallon bowfront on the carpet :eek1: . I bought the tank used about 6 years ago, I think he had had it for at least 5 years before that. So I'm thinking though it would probably be just fine, I'd sleep better replacing it rather than moving it twice more - once out of the LR and again back in again. I'm assuming re-doing the floor and painting will take at least a week to be complete, so my corals and fish need to live somewhere else for that week.

Options seem to include setting up a new tank and stand in the family room, moving all tank contents in to it, then when LR is done, everything out of new tank and into tubs, move new tank into LR, and everything from tubs into new tank again. Or...try to keep everything alive in tubs for the week it takes to re-do LR floors, and only have to set up new tank once. What do you all think?

This tank is jam packed with grown together coral, rock etc. - I am NOT looking forward to this! I tried to sell the family on leaving it there and putting the floor in around it, but this doesn't appear to be an acceptable option.

Does anyone have experience and advice for this kind of move? Any one in the San Francisco Bay Area have large tubs, extra heaters, pumps etc. they could lend me?

[julie180]

If you are thinking about "fake wood laminate" I would strongly advise against it and an aquarium. My floor is toast because of a few floods. Any water on the floor will find its way under the top layer and it will "lift" the surface.

As for moving the tank, can you remove rock, drain water and move the tank into another room close by? I had a 72 bowfront that I drained 3/4, removed alot of the rock and pushed across the room.

If you can cut down to a couple of days for the move, I think you would be ok with tubs etc.

You will probably have better luck with local needs on the club forums.

[ReefiusMaxiumus]

The less moves the better, so you probably don't want to set everything up in the new tank in the FM, only to have to tear it down and move it. If you can borrow a several 100 gallon tubs from someone, they could provide a nice tank until the floor is done.