Painting House & Tank

[Phloater]

Someone in my house has the brilliant idea of painting the house on a
cold January weekend so we cannot open the house and ventilate it. My
45 gallon tank will be in a separate room and no paint will be applied
in the room, but the whole inside of the house will be painted. Is this
going to affect the tank at all? I am thinking because of the oxygen
change between the tank and water that some fumes may get in. I am
looking for some input on this!!

thanks!!!

dave

[Dragon Slayer]

for years I always replied to these types of posts with the usual:

"I've painted in the room with the tank and no ventilation many times and
never had a single problem with it"

but just this week I had to paint one of my back rooms that got slightly
flooded when a 55g got busted and ruined the carpet and caused problems with
the lower part of the sheet-rock and had to be repaired.

I had the house open (low 40's are nice IMO) and a fan pushing air out the
window in the room that was being painted and drawing in fresh air from the
other end of the house.

when I finished up the painting and was washing out the roller and brush I
heard my CS12-2 'knocking'. it's a sound it makes when the collection cup
gets full and starts to trap air around the top and causes it to lift and
drop back down. I had just cleaned it that morning (like I do every
morning) so it seamed strange that it would be full after only a few hours.

sure enough it was full and a quick check of the other skimmers around the
house they were all full and skimming like crazy.

cant say why it was different this time over the so many times in the past I
have done it. I've even painted in the same room and got splatters on the
tank that had to be scarped off the glass after it dried. for some reason
this time the paint caused a difference in the tanks. cant say it was a bad
thing, nothing in the tank shows any sign of any ill effect but it did do
something.

kc

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[Marc Levenson]

I would recommend that during the painting and curing process that you add an
airstone with a length of tubing running to an airpump outside to assure fresh
air is added to your water. If you run a sump, you could incorporate it down
there to avoid microbubbles in your display.

Marc

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[Phloater]

I do have a air filter rated to keep 2 rooms clean and was thinking of
just keeping the door closed and running that. I think tonite its going
to get like -7 tonite.. =)