For my new tank upgrade my wife has demanded that I turn my protein skimmer off as I have been away on several work trips and the house stinks of ****, From the skimmer. My old 300 litre reef tanks skimmer never smells, but the larger skimmer on my new 1000 litre setup really stinks. At the...

Q&A Series #8 How do I get rid of that awful smell coming from my protein skimmer? Neptune Systems DOS

Hi , i have added 10 corals in 3 separate tanks last night . But today morning when i checked 2 tanks are smelling like rotten fish in fact more bad and the water is very cloudy...!!! But 1 tank is as clear as it was earlier. This is my 1st time with corals ...Plz help me with this .. Corals...

Hey guys, Just wondering if its a dream to have an odorless fish tank. It seems the only real thing that can cause an odor is the protein skimmer, which i have been over a few friends houses and couldn't smell anything. I know the collection cup smells terrible when you open it, but does the...

Hey guys, I have a 125 gallon with a 30 gallon sump reef tank. The tank is around 3 months old, I set it up the middle of may. For filtration I run a sock filter and then an AquaC ev 240 with a living fuge. The Protein skimmer probably pulls out 1/4 to 1/2 a cup of dark green skimmate a day...

I finally got my tank started and filled at the end of last week. I added 3 shimp to a pantyhose on friday night and now I have a smell in the house. I KNOW this is natural and normal but the question I have is that my cousin (been doing SW little over a year) came over to look at my setup and...

i set up my 5.5 gallon frag tank about a week ago with 100% dry rock i used a piece of shrimp and silverside to start the cycle after about 3 days i was picking up the ammonia so both shrimp and silverside were removed now my tank smells god awful enough to make you gag and noticed that there...

Alright, where should I begin? I recently acquired a 30 gallon salwater setup, the guy drained the water and brought it over to me rocks in a styrafome cooler and no water n the tank? Is that okay? everyging was still wet. He kinda went through how to set it up. I have a skilter? A protein...

I cleaned my tank today and i vacuumed the sand i didn't notice when i was cleaning but about 10-15 mins after when i was cleaning up i and putting water back in to the tank i smelled this rotten egg smell like a stink bomb (aka sulfur smell) i did move the sand around a bit is that the culprit...

Anyone have a suggestion on how to get the smell of vinager out of the sump lol they guy i got it from suggested vinager and water mix to clean it and i guess i got to much vinager cause its horrid smelling. so i gotta find something save to use inside a tank. any suggestions would be great. it...

I have about 20 lbs of sand that I previously used in a cycling nano for about a month. It was so short term that the sand couldn't possibly be very dirty, especially considering that there was only one inhabitant: a small lettered olive snail. Well I took the sand and set it in a bucket...

Yay! My new 55 gallon reef tank finally hit 0 ammonia, nitrites, and nitrates! However, I just had to do a water change because the tank had a very very slight fetid smell (I have extremely good sense of smell so it's very faint). The phosphates were also at about 2.5 ppm (not that my...