Moving across town...advice please!

I moved mine just a month ago and everything went great.
I bought a couple brand new garbage cans (plastic) with wheels on them to
move the rock in habitants and water. Then I left enough water to go about
an inch or two above the sand bed. We slid the tank off of the stand onto a
piece of 1" plywood and slid it across the carpet and carried down the
stairs to the truck. When we got it in the back of the truck we screwed a
1x2 onto the wood on each edge of the tank to stop it from sliding and then
covered it with a towel and some tape to stop debris from getting in during
the drive. I assembled everything back the next day with a 25% water change
and everything worked out great. I didn't loose anything and even the
toadstool I accidentally ripped in half during the tear down recovered and
is doing great. One piece of advice I would give is make sure you think
about where your putting when setting back up. I selected what I thought was
the best place and now that we have the furniture in I wish I had put it
another 6 feet over from where it is. But I am not about the move it again


Good luck and let us know how it goes.
Kelly
"Danny B." wrote in message
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We have a 150 gallon marine reef aquarium established about three
years ago. We have a 4 to 6 inch sand bed and about 200 lb live rock.
Thriving within are numerous corals, critters and fish.

We're moving across town in a couple weeks and need advice about the
daunting task of accomplishing the move of our aquarium.

There are two of us, and we know we can handle the empty tank and
accoutrements. What's the best way to move everything else?

We've got a Ford F-150 truck. It's about a 30 minute drive between
the two locations. We're moving from a first-floor location to a
first floor location. We're in Atlanta, so we're expecting outdoor
air temps to be cooperative.

We'd greatly appreciate tips, pointers, advice, etc, from anyone who
has accomplished a similar move.