Painting with tank in the room

[Jeff]

We're going to have part of our house professionally painted soon. What's the best preventative maintenance of protecting a tank, without moving it?

Cover with a think plastic drop cloth? 
I do have a glass top on it. 

[KBOzzie59]

If you are not painting behind the tank I think the cover would be adequate (that's all I would do). 

[MickS77]

Harbor Freight sells cheap canvas drop clothes, heavier and less likely to slip off, can be re-used for other projects.

[yannachka]

drop cloth is the route i would go with too. just open the windows to allow the paint fumes to leave, those would concern me more than covering the tank

[RovingGinger]

Put some charcoal in your filter the day before hand too. That was a @Cory tip from when he did aquarium maintenance - if the owner was doing work on the house, charcoal in the filter the day before can help ensure no bad fumes.

[Mr. Ed's Aquatics]

If you're running air, consider turning it off. Had one pump with the filter clog with paint (from the fumes I would think) and another that I pulled the little filter from cloud the tank water. Took forever to figure out since I had very carefully covered the tanks.

[Jeff]

On 10/2/2020 at 12:51 PM, RovingGinger said:

Put some charcoal in your filter the day before hand too. That was a @Cory tip from when he did aquarium maintenance - if the owner was doing work on the house, charcoal in the filter the day before can help ensure no bad fumes.

Any recommended charcoal?

[RovingGinger]

9 hours ago, igot2gats said:

Any recommended charcoal?

Any activated charcoal from your LFS or petco should do, it’s usually sold in a jar and people usually put it in a filter bag. There are sponges with charcoal built in too but I’m not sure how effectiveness differs.