Tenting House.
- Thread starter Bizzaro
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I had the same problem about 5 years ago. My house was getting fumigated(sp?) and I was unable to move my three tanks. This what I did: I removed all the filters and everything else I could move; like food and cleaning supplies ect. Then I sealed the tanks with plastic painter tarps and taped them as tight as I could. When we were able to go back in the house I set every thing back up and did a 75% water change. Then I did another 50% change 24 hours later. This worked for me. I hope everything works out for you.
Someone told me last night it takes 2days n one day to air out the place. I have a big house. The only other way i can think is to make some kinda holding tank outside for the bigger fish. The two smaller tanks i can take down and refill them back up outside. I have another 100g which isnt full yet. but that acrylic An i heard you cant put that out in the sun light? Is this true?
the house i rent is getting done next weekend... were out from friday morning till sunday afternoon.. i picked up a few rubbermade tubs and have had them cycling for a few weeks..
im planning on taking my fish that matter with me and leaving most of my "disposable" fish so if the tanks go toxic and they die ill be able to tell without losing anyone that matters (crosses fingers)... i plan on keeping my fish in the tubs till tuesday or so just to be sure the tanks are ok
im going to fill my tanks all the way up with water and only use powerheads so theres as little surface disturbance as possiable.. then the tanks are going to get covered with plastic, a wet towel and then more plastic.. obvious air pumps will be off and put in plastic bags so they dont get all toxic and the whatnot..
im really not happy about this.. but thankfully i had like a months notice
im planning on taking my fish that matter with me and leaving most of my "disposable" fish so if the tanks go toxic and they die ill be able to tell without losing anyone that matters (crosses fingers)... i plan on keeping my fish in the tubs till tuesday or so just to be sure the tanks are ok
im going to fill my tanks all the way up with water and only use powerheads so theres as little surface disturbance as possiable.. then the tanks are going to get covered with plastic, a wet towel and then more plastic.. obvious air pumps will be off and put in plastic bags so they dont get all toxic and the whatnot..
im really not happy about this.. but thankfully i had like a months notice
I had the same thing years back. I took all my fish and placed them in bins / tubs / coolers, whatever i could get my hands on and stored them in a friends garage for 4 days. I ran air pumps and did partial water changes each day without feeding them for 2 days prior and none until after they were in their tanks again. I used packing tape and plastic from Lowe's that you can buy in the roll. I left the filters running that could be tapped into the pod around the tank. I took the background off the backs and covered and taped all the way around all of my tanks, I think at that time I had 12 set up. It took a full day moving fish out and another moving fish in. I didn't loose any, and prior to putting the fish back in their tanks I did 70-80% water changes.
this was something i almost had to deal with.
instead of trying to figure it out, i jus yelled at my mom about how my fish mite die lol
she's pissed. she wants the house fumigated. i wont let her lol
instead of trying to figure it out, i jus yelled at my mom about how my fish mite die lol
she's pissed. she wants the house fumigated. i wont let her lol
OscarRobinson;1607001; said:
This is (about) what I did .. left them sealed 24 hours then brought everything back..
Difference being, I put the filter bags & biowheels into the tanks to keep the bio wet/alive..