My new 380

Well the time frame is about July because my new house will be done late June. Well we had 7 guys and we didn't lift it completely off the ground. We just lifted enough to get one end into the trailer and then just slid it in. I'm thinking I'll need more then that to get it threw the hole in the wall and up on it's 40" stand.
 
I would think you will need more. Seven of us handled mine...but yours is a decent amount bigger...and heavier im sure. Good luck :D
 
The guy with the 1000 or 700 G tank thread on here used something like 20+ guys to move his tank and they had no trouble.

The thing is, you've got a cube and he had a rectangle. That's 2 completed different ways of distrubuting weight around the edges.

You might try lifting up one side to about 1' or so and supporting it and then get the other side the same height. That way before you all of you have to do a dead lift from the floor, at least it will be a little higher. Maybe setting it up on 3 or 4 center blocks with towels on top of them on both sides would be good.

Then like I said you won't have to squat all the way down to the floor and you won't put as much stress on your backs. Make sure every squats to lift though or they will get hurt.
 
The trouble spot is when its on its side to get through doors. You have one side with thick glass (bottom of the tank) and then on the other side is nothing. Makes it awkward to carry. I built some big dollies and put the tank on its side. When It got in the house I rolled it into the tank room. I have pics of them in my gallery.
 
Yeah that's kind of what the other guy did, except he had to roll it down the side of his house on dollies.

Sounds like he's putting it in while the house is being built though, maybe it won't be that big of a deal.

Well you know what I mean.
 
Actually I wish they would of atleast put the hole in for the tank. It's a new house and I can't do anything to the house while it's being built. Kind of sucks because I'd run more electrical and more phone lines.
 
Here's a couple pics of my skimmer for this tank running on my growout system.

skimmer_3.jpg

Skimmer_dirty.sized.jpg
 
Goodness that is a big ol skimmer :cool:

I wish I had the room for a big tall thing like that. I have to stick to 34" :(
 
Luckly, I have a fishroom that all of this is going in to. I'll have a 100 gal acrylic sump which was used on my previous 265 gal tank. A calcium reator that measures 8"x8"x24" and a second chamber that is out of 4" pvc that is 24" tall. To equalize it I'm running a Kalk reactor the stands 24" tall out of 6" acrylic tubing. So far I still need a few things minor things to be ready.
 
All the holes in the the tank are for 2" bulkheads which makes the piping 2" all the way around. Once it hits the pumps I'm going to reduce it to 1.5" since that's the size of the inlets and outlets of the pumps I'll be using.
 
Bigred said:
Luckly, I have a fishroom that all of this is going in to. I'll have a 100 gal acrylic sump which was used on my previous 265 gal tank. A calcium reator that measures 8"x8"x24" and a second chamber that is out of 4" pvc that is 24" tall. To equalize it I'm running a Kalk reactor the stands 24" tall out of 6" acrylic tubing. So far I still need a few things minor things to be ready.
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A room is so nice I bet...I am lucky that my tank is on a outside wall so I can at least put the pumps and chiller outside.
 
the barracuda pumps are 2 inch slip on the outside. I run mine this way. just glue a 2 inch union to it. it is 1 1/2 inch threaded on the inside which chokes it abit.
 
Plumbing is a killer! Between the Sequence pump, two Gen-X pumps, the 4-Way, stock tanks, and a ton of single union ball valves, the tank starts looking pretty cheap!

-Doug
 
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