How to breakdown and move tank.

[Jon Fishman]

.4 miles? 4 tenths of a singular mile?


Just carry that thing.......


Seriously though..... lay it on a front/side with a few comforters under it (do people outside of the great-white-north have those?) and you'll be fine.

 

[Why-Me]

Sounds like something I should definitely consider!

Definitely better than staying in a hotel listening to the next door couple go at it all week lol or their family wake up at 5am. It was so worth it. Trip Advisor is your friend. It was around $3,200 for 9 nights. We had 10 people including kids, split 7 ways. I paid $475 for my daughter and myself together for 9 nights that's $52/night. Our family had the house to ourselves, got to cook and eat what we wanted all week without spending $$ to eat out everywhere. There was a closet full of boogie boards, towels, sand toys etc. Also a stack of surfboards to use as well. I'd recommend doing something similar.

 

[Philipgonzales3]

.4 miles? 4 tenths of a singular mile?


Just carry that thing.......


Seriously though..... lay it on a front/side with a few comforters under it (do people outside of the great-white-north have those?) and you'll be fine.

Yeah I'm thinking about just carrying it the whole way. Haha. I better eat my wheaties that day! I've actually hoarded a comforter, a sheet set, a body pillow, and several extra regular (queen?) Size pillows.

I'm going to rent a U-haul. Our house is only 880 square feet so should probably be able to fit it in a load or two. I'm not good at Jenga though so I don't mind lots of trips haha.

 

[Philipgonzales3]

I'm not going to lie. I felt pretty silly buying 12 buckets and lids to go .4 miles. I'm sure I could easily get away with a lot less, but ehh. I'd rather have them and not need them than the other way around.

 

[Jon Fishman]

Replacing the water enough to be sure that the “bugs” were enough to have the tank levels all happy was my big concern when I got my used setup, and I found you can never save too much water! Less new saltwater to prepare etc.

 

[cracker]

you will like the bucket head vac !

 

[Gonebad395]

Wow this is beginning to be like moving a broadway musical. Man relax you got this covered it’s .4 miles not 4000

 

[Philipgonzales3]

Wow this is beginning to be like moving a broadway musical. Man relax you got this covered it’s .4 miles not 4000

I overthink almost everything lol. Going to use my pond pump and 10 foot hose to fill at least 50 gallons of RODI from my brute into buckets. Going to move those over to the new house Friday along with the empty brute.

Then I'll fill the brute up with the RODI buckets and toss some salt, a heater, and power head in the brute.

Sunday I will move the tank and store at least 10 gallons or old saltwater along with all the important things (fish, rocks, etc) in seperate buckets.

Then I'll use my pond pump and a 50ft hose (probably will cut it down to size) to fill the tank with heated new saltwater, so I won't have to lug buckets for the fill.

I think I got this :).

 

[Why-Me]

You KNOW you got this!!

 

[Philipgonzales3]

And so it has begun. Being as I don't want to be doing this at the last minute I have begun putting RODI in buckets :-)

 

[Why-Me]

@Philipgonzales3
GLHF with the move today.
You got this!!
Keep us posted on the results of your move.

 

[Philipgonzales3]

@Philipgonzales3
GLHF with the move today.
You got this!!
Keep us posted on the results of your move.

Well the old tenants did not turn in their key on Thursday like agreed upon. So I had to delay the truck and family help until Sunday. We got the key today so we will do the brunt of the moving Sunday and finish it up Monday.

The good thing is I have time to take things slow. I can move over my brute and water today at least.

 

[Philipgonzales3]

Well the old tenants did not turn in their key on Thursday like agreed upon. So I had to delay the truck and family help until Sunday. We got the key today so we will do the brunt of the moving Sunday and finish it up Monday.

The good thing is I have time to take things slow. I can move over my brute and water today at least.

It also gives me time to plan and put up my security cameras a little early. Do you know if the line used for an icemaker is the same as for RODI? If so I may have my RODI source line already. The dryer is in a separate room where the icemaker line is sourced from. Thinking I can fit my brute in this room. The new house seems a little smaller but this is just temporary until we buy a house so no big deal to me.

 

[Why-Me]

yes it should be murloc lines to an icemaker

 

[Philipgonzales3]

yes it should be murloc lines to an icemaker

Today we just moved some boxes with our cars.



I went and installed a security camera. I'm in IT and run two hyper-V 2012R2 hypervisor physical servers and one physical SMB server that also has VMS software on it. I run AD, DNS, DHCP, IIS, Tomcat, etc on my VM's.

You thought aquariums have a rats nest of wires. All this crap to support ONE camera!



Of course I plan to add a lot more cameras than the initial one and this will scale easily. I had like six cameras running here at the old house but still plan for more.

Hope to do some cable management tomorrow. I initially had a lot of the cables zip tied (I know a big no no) and added Velcro as I added more cables. Took me forever to cut out all the zip ties.

Tomorrow I hope to move the water over and some more boxes and junk. Then all the big stuff Sunday with a U-haul.

 

[Why-Me]

I just noticed on Apex Fusion website you can link webcam or hosted personal site with video feed. Seems right up your alley.
You would love an Apex!!

 

[Philipgonzales3]

I just noticed on Apex Fusion website you can link webcam or hosted personal site with video feed. Seems right up your alley.
You would love an Apex!!

I'll have to check it out! I'm not much of a coder/developer, more of a Sys Admin but yeah I think eventually once things settle down I'll pick one up.

Meant to post a few pics earlier. Not 100% happy with the angle and hoping a cover on the light will diffuse it a bit more. Will probably switch out the bulb from CFL to LED as well. So this will have to do for now because me and my son were getting hungry and I was already cranky lol.

Just ignore the overlay. I took this off the top of my driveway this morning. Was too tired to change the overlay and anywhere else it's labeled.

 

[Why-Me]

A cover for the light should work well especially with how those cameras pick up and use ambient light.
Apex is nice because unless you're doing something nobody else has ever done you can get code from other users also the Fusion Dashboard lets you setup basic things like skimmer, lights, wavemakers, heaters etc without knowing or using any code. There are presets for those items and others.

 

[Philipgonzales3]

A cover for the light should work well especially with how those cameras pick up and use ambient light.
Apex is nice because unless you're doing something nobody else has ever done you can get code from other users also the Fusion Dashboard lets you setup basic things like skimmer, lights, wavemakers, heaters etc without knowing or using any code. There are presets for those items and others.

Yeah these cameras have the Sony Starvis "Starlight" sensors. Supposed to be really good in low light. I usually keep one camera in color mode 24/7, usually the front door one. All others I let switch between day and night mode (since this was in the driveway it would switch to night mode and was switching back and forth when I set it up).

I think the cover should help too, as the glare is gone when the screen door is blocking the light in the above pictures.

 

[Philipgonzales3]

Any idea if this is easy to fix?

It's leaking just a little :rolleyes:.




Got my filter setup in the dryer utility room area.


The house is smaller and in worse condition than the house we are currently in. I am just trying to be greatful we have a place to stay, but honestly I think this house will motivate us to buy a newer house sooner rather than later.