I recently bought a 55gallon full set up, and learned from that and improved when I bought another 90 gallon set up.
My best advice on my own experiences:
1.)Van would be best - if not truck - if truck, keep all temperature sensitive items inside the cabin
2.)get 5 gallon buckets, go to home depot, have 6 of them on hand
OR
if the situation allows you to have a submerssible pump with about 50' of vinyl tubing, you can get away with a couple buckets.
3.) have rubbermaid containers to store your water and live rock - the HUGE ones aren't good because they start to bow out - consider ones without any holes at the handle locations, and a lid
either pump water from your tank down into your holding containers in your vehicle or run 5 gallon buckets of water out there and fill it up that way.
4.) Keep first bucket(s) dedicated to live stock and corals ( I learned this the hard way, and feel like an idiot) on hand for the end.
5.) take live rock out and put into holding containers in the vehicle via 5 gallon pales with some water in them
6.) have corals in their own bags if possible and kept in a 5 gallon dedicated pale
7.) you could bag each fish - or put them in one dedicated container if compatible and not over stocked
8.) now you can take the hardware down
9.) o.k. to not take some of the water from original set up, consider it a water change.
10.) get home as fast as possible, put heaters and powerhead into buckets if safe that have live stock in them.
11.) now go through steps backwards, except introduce your fish and corals at the end.
From Central Calgary to Okotoks at night - took about 3-4 hours to take down, and set up. My goal was to keep the fish in the original tank as long as possible, and get them water movement and stable heat as fast as possible once home.
that or you can hire people to do it for you - heard of one guy doing it for $250 in calgary
total time to tear down, and set up a new tank
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