help! termiting
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Wrapping in plastic wont work. I had my place fumigated a few years ago. If you are going to gamble by trying to leave everything in the tank, you must turn off your skimmer. But even then you are going to lose a lot. The only things that survived and grew back were soft corals (e.g., zoas, shrooms, toadstools). All other coral were toast. TOAST!
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I have a 100g Cadlights Artisan II with mixed reef. So breaking down the tank is not an option on my list. I have searched online from different reefing forums and found some good information, so I decided to do this on my own risk. Here is what I did to my tank a day b4 I nuked my shack to get rid of those wood eating bug termites. Just a side note, it worked on my case but it might not might for you. Therefore, just do it your own risk.
We decided to tent our shack on the weekend, which it took a day long than doing on the weekend. From Saturday AM through Tuesday AM. The fumigation arrived at around 10AM and we have to vacant the house. Before the walked through, I told the lead man that I have a fish tank and I signed a waiver for liability with the sale rep.
Here is what I did, once again it worked for me but might not be for your case. Please don't blame on me if a disaster happened to your tank for following my steps and advised!!!
1- Let the fumigation lead-man to know you have a live fish tank and you have signed the waiver of liability.
2- Fat up the fishes a day and night b4 the fumigation.
3- Fat up them again early on the fumigation day.
4- Did a small wc abt 10%.
5- Turned off the skimmer, lights, carbon reactor, and returned pump.
6- Drained my sump bone dried and covered it with pallet plastic wrap film.
7- Pallet plastic wrapped the whole sump every square inch.
8- Ran an air stone to the tank.
9- Pallet plastic wrapped the tank, 5x.
10- Carefully sealed the lip on the pallet plastic wrap with scotch tape 2x.
11- Prayed and hoped for the best.
12- De-tented on a third day in the AM. I was so freaking nervous and not sure what will happened to the residents of the reef and entered the house at around 9:00AM. The first thing I did was to check on the live stock. Wiped out the top pallet plastic wrap with a wet towel b4 cutting the plastic film to vent the air and to prevent any chemical might leaked into the tank.
13-After nearly 3 days of fumigation with no lights. Everyone was pissed off , scared obviously and I only lost a potter angel, a cleaner shrimp, and three nice frags: a sunset milli, a blue milli, and a highlighter green acro.
14- I did a wc immediately and got the skimmer and carbon reactor going quickly.
So a well planned can be worked with out having to break down the tank, but it was a nerve racking experience to go through. I was staying at a hotel nearby, but was thinking and hoping all the time that everyone from reef tank made it. The one mistake that I have made was after three days with no light, acclimation of the sps was not on my planning and checking list. I had all three 52s at on at my normal settings. Ended up I bleached some of the small sps colonies. They are coming back nicely now.
Here are few pictures.
I have a 100g Cadlights Artisan II with mixed reef. So breaking down the tank is not an option on my list. I have searched online from different reefing forums and found some good information, so I decided to do this on my own risk. Here is what I did to my tank a day b4 I nuked my shack to get rid of those wood eating bug termites. Just a side note, it worked on my case but it might not might for you. Therefore, just do it your own risk.
We decided to tent our shack on the weekend, which it took a day long than doing on the weekend. From Saturday AM through Tuesday AM. The fumigation arrived at around 10AM and we have to vacant the house. Before the walked through, I told the lead man that I have a fish tank and I signed a waiver for liability with the sale rep.
Here is what I did, once again it worked for me but might not be for your case. Please don't blame on me if a disaster happened to your tank for following my steps and advised!!!
1- Let the fumigation lead-man to know you have a live fish tank and you have signed the waiver of liability.
2- Fat up the fishes a day and night b4 the fumigation.
3- Fat up them again early on the fumigation day.
4- Did a small wc abt 10%.
5- Turned off the skimmer, lights, carbon reactor, and returned pump.
6- Drained my sump bone dried and covered it with pallet plastic wrap film.
7- Pallet plastic wrapped the whole sump every square inch.
8- Ran an air stone to the tank.
9- Pallet plastic wrapped the tank, 5x.
10- Carefully sealed the lip on the pallet plastic wrap with scotch tape 2x.
11- Prayed and hoped for the best.
12- De-tented on a third day in the AM. I was so freaking nervous and not sure what will happened to the residents of the reef and entered the house at around 9:00AM. The first thing I did was to check on the live stock. Wiped out the top pallet plastic wrap with a wet towel b4 cutting the plastic film to vent the air and to prevent any chemical might leaked into the tank.
13-After nearly 3 days of fumigation with no lights. Everyone was pissed off , scared obviously and I only lost a potter angel, a cleaner shrimp, and three nice frags: a sunset milli, a blue milli, and a highlighter green acro.
14- I did a wc immediately and got the skimmer and carbon reactor going quickly.
So a well planned can be worked with out having to break down the tank, but it was a nerve racking experience to go through. I was staying at a hotel nearby, but was thinking and hoping all the time that everyone from reef tank made it. The one mistake that I have made was after three days with no light, acclimation of the sps was not on my planning and checking list. I had all three 52s at on at my normal settings. Ended up I bleached some of the small sps colonies. They are coming back nicely now.
Here are few pictures.
I did this a few years ago. I wrapped my 180 in plastic, the kind you use when painting. I taped up the edges good. I turned off all the pumps except for an air pump and one circulation pump inside the DT. I didn't lose anything.
The termite company didn't want any pumps running so I turned off everything until the closed the doors then used my apex to turn the air pump and circulation pump on.
The termite company didn't want any pumps running so I turned off everything until the closed the doors then used my apex to turn the air pump and circulation pump on.
I went the same situation 2 years ago with my discus set up. I had 2 100gl display tank and around 10 smaller tanks for breeding and growing out frys. All I did was doing big water change the day before the termite thing happened and wrapped up all tanks with couple layers of furniture plastic and ran air pumps only. All survived, no dead. Reef could be different a bit, but the concept is the same with discus to me.
Wassup Mr. Vu. The plan was to run the air stone pump outside of the house, but I had the pump inside when I realized that the air tubing was not long enough. So I took a chance to have it ran inside my house during gassing. It should have been placed from the outside of the tent for a cleaner positive air than recirculated air. I have thought about it, but not sure if that was the main root caused, which I lost one of my fav fishes potter angel, cleaner shrimp and a few frags of sps. If the air stone pump was the root caused, it might possibly wiped out my entire fish population and even corals in my tank. So, I found that the root caused still in-conclusive at this time.
