Termites and Tenting

[OnceLoyal]

I had a small swarm of termites in one of my bedrooms in at my house. This is pretty freeky to me because they are the drywood ones.(At least I am pretty sure). I will have an exterminaor come to check things out next week. Swarming is when they break away and form new colonys if I am not mistaken.
The problem I have is all my tanks are set up in one half of my garage. I have read a few articles of how people handle this situation.The real problem I have is what to do with my 220. I can not move the fish inside. The 75s are no problem. The 150 is not set up yet.
I am actually considering sealing thej tank and running an outside source of air.
PLEASE if anyone has first hand experience or knows of someone please let me know. I am very very nervous about this.

 

[FSM]

Seal it with plastic wrap or whatever, and then get a ton of air tubing and put the pump far away from wherever the termite guy is working.

I've never done that, but it seems like it would be fine.

 

[LisaH]

Years ago...I've used flea bombs with set up tanks. I used plastic paint drop cloths and blankets to weigh down the plastic. I wraped my air pump in a blanket and stuffed it in the cabnet under the plastic. I did not have any deaths. I would guess that termites will take much longer than fleas to kill. Flea treatment was 4 hours. If I were you I would buy extra air hose and keep the air pump outside the house.

Best of luck to you!

 

[OnceLoyal]

Thx guys. I think the treatment is about 3 days...... I will keep ya posted

 

[Rawimpact]

You should look into orange oil, no need to tent and completely fine for inhaling.

 

[Fish Eat Fish]

ive heard some bad stories about this kind of situation. I would advise you move all you can and seal all you cant.