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[Dowtish]

Is it wet yet? How's the move (house and tank) progressing?

The tank move and planning of, has totally been neglected as I have been way too busy trying to get the house ready for us to move next weekend.

Painting, ripping up carpet for tile, setting fence posts and just generally spending way too much money...

I will get the 120 this Friday and take it to the new place and give it a vinegar bath. Then after we move all furniture next weekend I will have a couple of days to get everything ready for the transfer.I did get my new speedwave DC 10000 in and am soaking it in vinegar as it smelled heavily of machine oil.

I just want it all to be over with!

 

[SeahorseKeeper]

Looks like you have been busy!! Can't wait to see what you do with the new tank!

 

[Dowtish]

Looks like you have been busy!! Can't wait to see what you do with the new tank!

Thanks Krista! Busy is an understatement...

 

[powers2001]

Can we see a pic of the 85?

 

[Dowtish]

Can we see a pic of the 85?

Sure!

 

[Dowtish]

quick update

The tank soaking in Vinegar

The stand set in place

Time to clean

The tank has to be cleaned up and ready by Saturday morning as all the contents from the 85 will be moved over this weekend...Its getting real!

 

[ToXIc]

finally found the thread... subed... :nerd:

 

[Dowtish]

Finally have a minute to update the thread here. I had a team from MTRC come and help me break down the tanks at my old place and haul them to the new house yesterday. It took us about 3 hours to break down 3 setups and get them loaded. The night before I had a friend help me get the stand and tank in place as well as the lights hung. Then I filled the tank about 3/4th's full and got it to the right salinity and temp.

When we arrived to the house we still had to set the sump in place and plumb the tank. It was madness as my garage is in utter disarray and you couldnt find anything right after you set it down. I have been stressed out over this move knowing the lack of timing to really have a true plan for the setup so I did a simple drawing of the plumbing and ran to Lowes to get everything. I had to get new bulkheads and a couple of ball valves shipped overnight from BRS just to have everything I needed. I will say given all of the craziness I only had to make one extra run to Lowes for a 3/4 barbed 'T' and some brackets to hold the manifold. I am amazed that we got everything done in under 12 hours. The corals and fish had a bit too long to wait but everything seems really happy so far, other than 2 small chromis that were in my 30 gal frag tank. I have plans for a minimal scape but just didnt feel confident to lose all of biological filtration from the old rock. So I literally dumped 90 lbs of sand in the tank and just started dropping rocks in given the time frame and wanting to get the corals in the tank. So the pics below is not what the tank will look like in a couple of months.

Thanks to everyone that helped. I am in your debt just for putting up with me and my stressed out state.

Now on with the PICS!

Breaking down- Seen here is Smyrnareefer, ToXIc, poolkeeper1, and the gorgeous one on the step ladder is me.

ToXIc breaking down the nano

Steel stand in place

Lights hung and the tank filling up

Plumbing and manifold

And almost complete

 

[Rhino]

Subscribed! Looking great so far!

 

[dwilliams87]

Awesome man. Its looking great. I noticed the light string in the sump area on some of those pics, was that just for you to see while you were working or are you going to use those for something with your tank?

 

[novajohn01]

looking good Chris...

 

[ToXIc]

:bigsmile:

 

[Volitans67]

Looking great!

 

[roadrashpaul]

Looking great. Can't wait to see the scape completed.

 

[TankedNTn]

Looking good. I think I have the same portable draw set up next to my tank. It was either that or listen to the wife gripe about fish stuff sitting around all the time. Now it just sits on top of the drawers if it's used often lol.