6ft Build

Ha....here's how it worked. Tractor trailer arrived from Montreal....tank was rolled to rear of trailer with pallet jack. [Never would have got it off manually.....there was the truck driver and me.]......and my Kubota 50/40/w loader and forks.

Strapped the crate to the frame of the forks....just to be safe...we're talking a $4,000 tank here.

That offload was easy......sent the driver on his way. Now had to rotate the crate 90 degrees so it was lengthwise on forks so we could fit it on deck behind house. that a bit of a challenge.......quite a bit of weight hanging off end of forks. Chain around far end...over the top of crate and used a come-a-long to stiffen chain.
On to the deck which is ~ 4' off ground. Had to remove side boards on deck so as not have to lift the tank over sides.

Easy peasee.....then remove crate top, end & sides, and set up an eleborate block and ramp set up to roll tank on side so it would fit through sliding glass door into living room.

It took just two of us to roll the tank 90 degrees onto its side and onto the platform I made with 3/4" plywood and 3 sets of casters likde they use in warehouses to move stacked boxes around. Casters were about 3". Manuvering the various blocks and sliding ramp material here and these was a PIA, but finally we got the tank in the house, closed the sliding door, and the tank sat up against that door for........5 yrs.
Got really busy with other things that life threw @ us...but then began installing in earnest
two winters back.

PhaneSoul's move sounds a whole lot easier than what we did.

Update

It's been a while but theres been quite a lot done.

So on the tank were just cheap led strips since it was FW so instead of throwing them we put them inside the cabinet so we got some light on the sump.

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My dad wanted to put a coral backing on the tank :doh: i told him plain blue or nothing so instead of getting a 6ft long backing we just got some paint and this is how it came out, not bad actually. [URL=http://s864.photobucket.com/user/Pitsta/media/IMG_1260.jpg.html]

So i tried cutting glass from a 2ft tank i bought for $10 to hold water for the ATO but that didn't work out (big fail) so asked around for places to cut glass, not even seal it just cut and they wanted $100. Went back to the guy who made out tank and he made this up for $50. [URL=http://s864.photobucket.com/user/Pitsta/media/IMG_1264.jpg.html]

Lastly for this update, the royal pain a.k.a adjusting the sump. So we ordered a SRO-2000 INT skimmer which would of fit in the 2nd chamber but instead they gave us a SRO-3000 INT (free upgrade :banana: ) which just didn't fit so i had to pull the back panel off, take off the baffles between the first & second chamber and move them across by like 3cms. Half of my thumb is flat from pushing the razor blade between the glass to cut the silicon as well as not trying to break/remove the baffles between the 2nd & 3rd chamber plus all the cuts and bruising on my hands. Alas i got there in the end though, not bad for first time doing something like this. [URL=http://s864.photobucket.com/user/Pitsta/media/IMG_1263.jpg.html]