Has anyone got some advice on the effects of paint fumes on fish? I'm using the low odour stuff but it's still quite pungent, I've turned my venturi off so that it doesn't pump the fumes into the tank. Are there any other precautions I should consider?
Last edited by Adam on Sun Oct 17, 2004 7:31 pm, edited 1 time in total.
Hi Adam,
My parents came round and redecorated my fish room whilst i was away, tehy kept the windows open whilst they were there and ledt tehm on the latch at night. There were no side effects at all. Just keep a bit of ventilation going!
I listened to all the sound advice, filters switched off and airation. All the windows in the room were left wide open and I've just finished a 60% water change 5 hours after I finished painting. I also had a couple of fans going, pointed at the open windows. So far so good, there have been no casualties.
Everything seems to be OK this morning, everyones feeding and there hasn't been any ovenight casualties. Had to close all the windows before going to work, hopefully most of the paint fumes have already dispersed. I'll be doing another water change tonight just to be on the safe side.
Spotted those as well as the cardinals for 65p. I would have saved a small fortune had I bought my cardinals from there. Mind you when I was buying cardinals I was managing to get them for £1 each, haven't bought any for well over a year now. The shoal is starting to thin down now as some of them are over 3 years old and I get the occassional death due to old age. I got into the cardinal thing when I saw a show tank at a LFS that had 1000 cardinals in it.
Yep our LFS did that and sold out of cardinals straight away. My discus then ate my cardinals . I shouldn' t have been shocked but i thought that the discus were too small. Hmmm you live and learn