Guys, wanna ask your opinion on this.

My company is doing the annual chemical warfare again ie spraying disinfectant. Last time when this happened, it totally nuked my office tank killing everything inside even though I covered the top of my tank with newspaper.

So this time I'm thinking of the following

- removing the filter and air pump
- put the filter media into a bag and put it into the tank
- add charcoal as precaution.
- turn off lights
- seal the tank with plastic food wrap.

Tank info
- 30cm tank with plants (anubias, massimo algae and frogbits)
- small population of 1 snail, 4 adult and 2 juvenile cherries.

Do you guys think this will work for 48hours?

???

Anyway... tanks sealed. Wish me luck

Yeah.... they should finish with the chemical warfare in a couple hours. Maybe I'll drop by the office this evening to remove the wraps.

I'm pleased to announce that sealing the tank worked. No casualties thus far.

I did get one unrelated casualty though.... it went all adventurous and climbed up the charcoal media bag I have on the filter outlet and became dried shrimp.

For some unknown reasons, my previously thriving floating plants are all but dead. The shrimps themselves are doing ok and my battle with leeches still wages on. Still see them once every couple of days or when the shrimps make sudden jumps.

Where got clean... the shrimp poo all over the place

Also cos its summer here = massive evaporation = massive top up = massive rise in TDS

But so far this setup has been pretty maintenance free lah

I had frogbits

RO water a bit difficult since my tank is in the office.

Most place don't carry full range of seachem stuff here. Any alternative methods?

Share some photos of the office tank again.

My view



Visitor's view

Shot with potato

The lighting I'm using (with separate RGB channels) looks adjusted to normal normal white light to my eyes but from photos gives this ridiculous purple tint.

Photos not showing on the link.

Got pic of ur setup?