Should my Saltwater Tank smell bad?

[titan04]

I have a 75 Gallon saltwater tank and the water smells really really really bad. my water is in check and my PH is 8.1, Amonia, Nitrite, and Nitrate are all at 0PPM. I feed my Lionfish and My snowflake eel Frozen Lancefish and I soak the fish in Garlic and other vitamines. Could it be the food that I am feeding them? As for hardware I'm using a Prizim protein Skimmer, Fluval 404, and I also have a couple of power heads for water movement. I also have about 3 to 4 inches of crushed coral for subtrate.

Thanks for your help.

 

[Dragonscales]

keep any corals or lr?

 

[ostrow]

Did you post earlier about this?

In any case you should have virtually no odor at all. Run fresh carbon, and do water changes of 10-15% and see if that helps.

 

[titan04]

It seems that my skimmer was the cause of making the water smell. I took the skimmer off and now the water is fine. Any idea why the skimmer would do this? Its a Prizm hang on skimmer for up to 100 gallons

 

[spanair]

Skimmer remove waste etc...this waste stinks to hell hence skimmers need to be emptied every so often when it gets full .

Mine smells to high heavens