This is a great relief. Got to calculating weight, and the water in that tank weighs a thousand pounds. We’ll remove that, but not quite all the sand and rock; we’ll bucket the fish and corals. And remove 40 lbs of canopy, which we’ll set aside. But the shipping weight of that baby was 800 lbs, counting 40 lbs of pallet and maybe 20 lbs of plywood sheeting. That means 700 lbs of stand and half inch glass (with about 5″ of mixed sand and rock and water still inside) which has to be coaxed off the old carpet and up a teeny bit onto a new laminate edge (which can accordion and ruin it if we blow this) while receiving felt glides to replace the teflon glides it’s sitting on.
This is going to be interesting. And if we can’t get it done this week—we’re going to have to manage it when I’m not to lift anything heavier than a milk carton.
Off-Topic and Yet Not: — A Cherryh fan emailed me a few days ago regarding Visitor and Convergence. Apparently, she’d seen my fan page on the Foreigner books at: http://www.shinyfiction.com/cherryh-fan/foreigner/books.html
I gave her what info I knew on publication dates and formats, and I forwarded a copy to your email. I hope it gets through the spam filter unhindered.
I thought you’d want to know a fan was asking and had visited the page. I directed her to your blog too. 🙂
Back to the tank — I know how difficult it is to move an established tank. I had an old one spring a leak and I had to replace it. It was only a 50-gallon tank and a fresh water one at that. But moving the rocks and fish out of the old tank, then removing the tank, then installing the new one by moving all old gravel & rocks into the new one was a two person job that lasted the better part of the afternoon. The hardest part was keeping the fish alive long enough to buy, clean and prep the new tank. This all happened right after the pet store had closed for the night. I also had to clean the carpets from the mess of half a tank of water. I was very glad it was a fresh water tank and not a salt water one.
We’re just crossing our fingers.