Ok, I have consolidated my tanks down to my 200g 7x2x2 Reef just before the move. Had a 90, 75, Biocube, QT since my inception into this hobby.
So Currently there's
240lbs of Live Rock
50lbs of Marco Rock
40lbs of Crushed Coral
Numerous Corals, SPS, LPS, Softies, 2 Duresa Clams
4 Cleaner Shrimp
1 Fire Shrimp, 1 Coral Banded Shrimp
100s of Snails and Crabs
Hippo Tang
Purple Tang
Sailfin Tang
Yellow Tang
Porcupine Puffer
Koran Angel
1 Male Lyretail Anthias, 1 Female Lyretail Anthias
1 Male Bartlett Anthias, 3 Female Bartlett Anthias
1 Lawnmower Blenny
4 Clown Fish, 3 Ocillaris Orange, 1 Black Ocillaris, and 1 other one, IDK what it is. My GF bought him.
1 Spotted Mandarin
Hardware:
3 Vortech MP40's with Battery Backup, 3 Evolution LED's, 2 6' VHO's
ASM G4+ Skimmer
Vertex BioPellet Reactor
TLF Reactor for GFO
Full Apex System
Dosing System Controlled By Apex
ATO from ATO.com
ETC,ETC
How the ?(*&@%^$><@ am I going to do this?!
"HOW AM I GONNA MOVE MY TANK!"
I hired Mason "The Fish Whisperer" who specializes in tank moves. He works with a local moving company called "Life Way Moving" to move large tanks. He a one other employee handled all of the Livestock and Water aspect of the tank. Life Way Moving Co. handled the tank and moving aspect of the move.
Mason was very professional about his work and made sure to take all care he could for my Corals and fish. No mover could touch any buckets that had fish or coral in them, only him and his associate.
The movers "for my regular furniture" showed up promptly at 8:15 to get the layout and get working on clearing the living room so that Mason could have free room to work on the tank.
Mason Showed up shortly after and took a peek at the job ahead and began to bring up his supplies and equipment.
First Job Unplug all of the lighting and fans, so the Canopy could be removed.
They began to drain water from the system into the buckets that will hold the Corals from my system
He tried his best to situate the corals so that nothing would be injured.
The first of the many 5 gallon jugs of tank water
Continued Coral removal into bins and buckets, all of the regular Live Rock without Coral was being left until last since it doesn't need nearly as much care.
The 5g Jug pile continues to get larger
More Coral Geesh!
Starting to pull the Live Rock
Time to Catch Fish!
Live Rock Bin
Coral Bins, the whole time this was being done, a Air Stone and Pump was being rotated around the various buckets and bins
Last bit of water out
Hardware disconnect beginning
I planned ahead and didn't glue the overflow pipes on the connections to the tank, and connections to the sump!
NOW WHAT?!
FYI the Tanks weighs about 500-600lbs unfilled!!
The Stand weighs about the same!