moving my tank

[fair maiden]

I am in the process of moving my 50gl saltwater tank that I have had in the same location for about a year now. The reason? With all the hot weather we have been having lately it seems the water in the tank is getting way too warm and I woke up this morning to my hippo laying at the bottom of the tank. So before I lose any more of my precious babies I thought I better move my tank to another location. . I have a location away from any windows and probably would be the perfect spot. The question I have is what is the easiest and safest way to take my tank down and move it with the minimum amount of stress on its inhabitants?

1-yellow tang
1- sand sifting starfish
1- sand sifting goby
1- clownfish
1- bubble coral
1- red mushroom
1- green mushroom

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,

 

[macphoto]

I posted a description of moving my tank in my "90g FOWLR" thread (which is currently stickied in this forum).

However, if temperature is your only reason for moving it, there might be an easier way. I too was having a problem with a too-warm house causing tank temperature to get uncomfortably high. But you'd be amazed at what a simple fan blowing on the surface of the water will do. We keep the house around 82 degrees during the day (ugggghhh), and the tank stays at around 79.

Also, the only good spot in this new house for our 16g FW tank was in the office. Unfortunately, it is by far the hottest room of the house... it was an addition (actually, half the garage converted), and I think they should have run two A/C ducts to this room, not just one. It probably stays around 85 degrees most of the time. I was convinced we'd have to give this tank away (or try to find some other place in the house to stick it). In the end, a fan installed on the cover cools very well, keeping the tank at 78 - 79 (sometimes the heater even comes on).

Of course the downside to this is increased evaporation. I have to top-off the 16g FW tank every day or two. The 90g FOWLR has auto-topoff, so all I have to do is turn on the RO/DI unit once a week to refill the reservoir, but still, to reduce the "wasting" of water by cooling the tank too much with the fan running all the time, I put the fans on both tanks on a timer that reduces the amount of running time when it's not as hot in the house.

--Mike

 

[fair maiden]

The problem is I do not have ac in my house and it gets pretty warm. I have been runnng a fan on the tank for a couple of days , even placed chill packs on the water and the temp won't go down. I even placed a blanket on the window to block out the light. I thought if I moved the tank to an inner wall area that would probably work.