Tanks Shouldn't Be Near Spicey Cooking

[karlp]

I have read previously that you shouldn't put a tank in a small kitchen where you're cooking chilli / frying food and stuff like that and haven't got much ventilation because the water filter / venturi can dissolve fumes / food substances into the water.

Is this actually true or a fish keepers wives tale ? If it's OK, I'm thinking of putting a small tank in my small kitchen which is not particularly well ventilated and do cook spicey food from time to time. The chilli fumes are enough to make me cough.

 

[annka5]

Fumes generally can enter the tank water easily enough, so I guess it's exactly the same for cooking smells.... not convinced it would do much harm though.
I've never heard the spicy food / chilli thing before, and something about it doesn't ring true to me. Chilli oils are pretty volatile so am not sure that they would get into the tnak water easily.

 

[karlp]

I think the comment on chilli is my paraphrasing, because it's the most noxious stuff I cook