Moving Tank?

[9supratt4]

What's the best way to move my tank? Bought a new house about 10 minutes away. Everything has been moved besides the tank. What is the best way to move it? It is a 50 Gallon EXT from IM.

There are small fish that live in the rocks so getting all the fish out is going to be pretty much impossible. I was thinking I would empty as much water into buckets and move it to my truck, then put the water back in for the 10 minute drive, just to do it all again once we get it to the new house.

Thoughts?

 

[nightmarepl]

What's the best way to move my tank? Bought a new house about 10 minutes away. Everything has been moved besides the tank. What is the best way to move it? It is a 50 Gallon EXT from IM.

There are small fish that live in the rocks so getting all the fish out is going to be pretty much impossible. I was thinking I would empty as much water into buckets and move it to my truck, then put the water back in for the 10 minute drive, just to do it all again once we get it to the new house.

Thoughts?

I moved my an hour with no issues i took out most of the bigger rocks drained the tank to roughly 10% water enough for fish to swim i put the rocks into the buckets with water. Not if you can’t take the rock out you might have a issue with the bottom blowing out so you’d have to put a plywood under it

 

[reefsandrotts]

What's the best way to move my tank? Bought a new house about 10 minutes away. Everything has been moved besides the tank. What is the best way to move it? It is a 50 Gallon EXT from IM.

There are small fish that live in the rocks so getting all the fish out is going to be pretty much impossible. I was thinking I would empty as much water into buckets and move it to my truck, then put the water back in for the 10 minute drive, just to do it all again once we get it to the new house.

Thoughts?

If your close to hopatcong I have 12 5 gallon food grade buckets you can use.

 

[Coral Reef To Classroom]

Don't leave anything in the tank when you move it. You will compromise the seams. Fill the buckets with water and place rock with fish into bucket preferably with a lid. They will be fine for a couple hours.