Moving a Biocube aquarium while laminating...

[gobytron]

Originally Posted by lastlight

I'll be if you carefully lift with a person on each side even with the tank mostly full it won't be a problem as it's less than 29g of water. have a third insert the cups and then slide as I said. good luck.

water weighs 8lbs per gallon, so this tank will be approx 240lbs.
I would only caution that even the sturdiest of stands are not made to be mved around with that much weight on it....so you might wind up with a wobbly stand after the fact.

[lastlight]

Yeah good point. I'd do it but after more thought I wouldn't recommend it lol. My solana stand...the door does seem to shut a little differently now but then again it's on more level flooring in the kitchen so I'm not sure I messed the stand up any.

The top piece should be a solid wood tho. Mine was which is why I think I didn't think twice. Is this stand particle board or solid wood?

[edikpok]

Pheeww... so the aquarium has been finally moved and this is how it was done:

First of all I bought from HD some of those furniture moving plastics that come with some fluffy material that you can put on them to not scratch the floors. We laminated all the way to the aquarium. Then we needed 3 people.

We put a piece of laminate under both sides of the aquarium and pry bars underneath them (the laminate to not damage the stand and to distribute the force applied by bar). Both people pushed the pry bars slightly to lift the aquarium just enough to move it onto the ready laminate to put the plastic fooot under it. Then we did the same to the pther side. And finally to the back legs. When all four legs had thplastic things underneath them, the aquarium was sliding like a charm. Then finished the laminates and moved it back, tilted ever so slightly to get rid of plastics. Overall, took about an hour to move and. No water was drained...

Thanks for the suggestion!

[lastlight]

Glad to hear it went well!

The biocube has less seams to worry about does it not? I thought the front an sides are one curved piece but I may be wrong. Either way I'll bet you're relieved it's done.