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paint fumes

A_Lee

A_Lee

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There are a couple areas of my home that are being painted (re-painted actually). I have a two of three tanks in areas of the home where I can smell the odor of paint. It is not as though the wall right behind the tank are being painted, but either in an adjacent room, or the other completely opposite side of the room. These two tanks happen to be open top reef tanks. The odor is not strong enough to really bother me, much less strong enough to cause me to pass out :) Will the odors from the paint somehow make their way in to my tanks and cause problems?
If so, what can I do to alleviate this issue?
 
No clue if it'll hurt, but meh, why not toss a fan in front of the tank to keep air from blowing into it, and toss some more carbon in the tanks.
 
A Sacto reefer lost one of the nicest Norcal tanks a few yeas back by painting the room next to his tank room. WATCH OUT!!! Rich/Sandollar's tank was insane and never recovered :( Big loss.
 
Okay, I'll go buy a standing fan to prop at the surface of my tanks, and pray that does something. I'll point the fans in the opposite direction of the tank.
 
Maybe you can try to set it up like a wind tunnel type of thing? Get all the air moving from the tank to the newly painted area to outside. But if you can still smell the paint fumes by your tank, then I'm all in favor of plastic wrapping it and pumping in air from outside.
 
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