Any Ideas

[dakar]

Reefgeed, kudo's for the idea for making an easy way to move the tank, however are those strips under the stand while the tank is full (I guess I mean all the time) ?

From a structural point of view I'm not so sure that's a great plan, most prefab stands are design to handle little more than the weight of the tank and water weight (+some percentage mandated by some regulation or another), however that weight is expected to be distributed across the entire base of the stand, not just areas of it. Compare it to a partial foundation for a house... the load bearing surfaces only have a fraction of the designed surface to dissipate the load.

[Whoyah]

I think the strips are probably OK. If you think about it most heavy furniture (refrigerators, washing mashing, coaches, gun safes) all seat on very small feet. As along they are even shaped and the stand is sturdy I think you would be OK.

A couple things to consider is that weight is now focused on a much smalled area which may dent the floor. Also I would pretty hesitant to move a full tank on the strips as mentioned. I would be afraid the stand would slip off one strip tipping everything which could be a disaster. Just my two cents.

[dsfdbutterfly]

I want to thank everyone for their input. We successfully drained the tank with the fish in a 54 gal. tub. After it was drained we lifted one end and pushed a blanket under it and continued until it was all the way under. Then slid it across the floor and back (no problems or scratches either). I have everyone back in the tank and seem to have lost only one crab (who I think was already on his way out). The biggest problem was heating the tank back up before I put the fish back in which took 4ever! The blanket worked great though and saved the back. We moved it with two people that way. Our walmart is retarded (who's isn't though) so I couldn't use the cutting board because they didn't have ones big enough that they would fit and I didn't have the time to glue and make them work. Great idea though and when I upgrade (my husband doesn't know) I will look more closely at them.

Thanks again,

Angie