Painting My House

I will be painting my downstairs where my tank is at. Should I just cover the entire tank with a sheet until I'm done. Latex paint doesn't smell much but I do not know if the odor will cause any harm to fish, inverts or corals? Any body else paint room where your tank is in?
Adam

 

are you spraying or rolling? If you're spraying and it's just for one day, cover it with plastic and tape it up. spray will get everwhere even with a drop cloth on it.. cover your skimmer/filter/fuge/sump too. if you're rolling just throw a drop cloth over it should be fine. I've done major remodeling around mine.

 

Im rolling the paint. You think just a drop cloth and it should be fine. If my lights were on that day (Sunpod 150 2 MH bulbs) will I be trapping the heat it.
Adam

 

true true turn the lights off during the time you are painting, the corals and fish will just think it's a cloudy day do you have actinics? you could leave them on with a fan blowing across the surface

 

I had my Grandson to dump a can of paint into my sump it was only about 4 inches in the can I was hitting some trim they came in my son and I where looking at the tank and the sump was all behind it in the rear room it is a built in the wall system We are looking at a what corals My son wanted to get and the water went white LOL , From the semi Gloss enamel paint that I had been using in the sump area . just before they came in .. Its harmed nothing but the skimmer , the Ph went up a good bit like 9.3 . Harmed nothing Also for what its worth if you ever have to spray for any reason just use a wet sheet over the tanks will filter out the particles of mist and allow for gas exchange and will keep tank a little cooler . But Painting around a tank have never been a problem for anyone I ever knew.

 

Boy how many water changes did you have to do after that?

 

I just recently finished painting my LR where my tanks were. I only covered the tank when I was near it, as I am sloppy!
I did not paint the wall that the tank was actually on, as that tank was coming down and a new tank was coming it. I have since got my new tank (about 4wks ago) and old tank is still sitting there as the LFS I think has forgotten about me...(just claim to be busy) but as soon as they take that tank to my parents house I will be finishing up.
But my fish tank suffered no harm.....my dogs on the otherhand, suffered (Or should I say I did). I have one dog that LOVES to lick wet paint and I caught her several times licking a wet wall (vet actually said it would do no harm to her...he obviously did not know what I was going to do to her ) Then all 3 of them liked to lean on the wet walls, and finally one dog jumped right into middle of the paint pan. Little paw prints everywhere! Needless to say, my dogs are lucky to still be here. Trying to get paint out of the rugs and the coats of 2 long haired yorkie puppies was not fun.

 

ok, now you tell me!! what a good idea! who'da thunk it! I had to paint our whole house in FL to sell it and we sprayed and it turned the tank milky then again when we remodeled the majority of this house and I'm guessing that why my tank was so messed up, for a while there..... too much gunk getting in.

 

No water changes just carbon changes about ever 3 days I'd replace the pound of so for a couple of weeks about 5 carbon changes total . Skimmer cleaned it all up then the carbon finished it off . Did not harm a thing.. It was ?? about a pint of paint in the bucket . He thought he was feeding the fish That what he said he was doing when he daddy screamed what the Hell are you doing boy . The frags my son took away all did well also. These corals are not as delicate as many would have to to think . Look where they live in nature ! I have just done my first water change in over 30 yrs trying to get the Magnseium levels down under 2,000ppm LOL I had them at 3,800ppm for a few months . I swaped out about 100 to 150 gallons last week or so . I as a rule never change water ..

 

Old school stuff My Grandmother used to breed Canary's and Pop had tropical and marine fish and when the man came to spray the house every month they always covered the tanks and cages with wet sheets and on the birds Granny gathered the bottom up and tied them Bird got cool air and no chemicals . never lost any Birds or fish . It was a Old Victorian in the city and Granny hated bugs LOL I never saw any as a kid.