What Does Your Tank Smell Like?

[businesslamb]

What does your tank smell like?

My tank has been up and running and now has the familiar smell that I remember from my youth when I kept fish years ago. It’s hard to describe sort of like an earthy smell but a bit more pungent (Actually it's not that bad). What does your tank smell like?


Cheers

Businesslamb

 

[SarahFish]

mines don't have a particular smell atm, but years ago when i had that water pomps that throw the water out (lol) the aquarium room was kinda smelly

also if the food takes contact with air for a longer time that will smell too

 

[Silverlady]

A moist Composty smell, like damp peat.

 

[WILDER]

A mature tank should smell earthy and peaty, worry if its smells like rotten eggs or sulphur.

 

[jayjay]

My tanks smell of nothing, they mostly run in my room and I have no problems with them 'smelling'.

And I sniffed sulphur when I messed up my sand nothing was wrong with the tank or fish or me in the end.

 

[Callum]

my tanks dont smell unless i take off my lid then it smells kind of earthy

 

[WILDER]

Sulphur smell is a sign of a bad bacteria infection in your tank.

 

[PlecMama]

Mostly they smell like fish tanks, kwim, but the sand tank smells a bit more like the seaside, which I don't particulalry like.

We have to lock the office to keep Dylan from wandering during the night, so in the morning I open the door then scoot downstairs to make coffee before going in to sit so it isn't icky after having been cooped up all night.

I was always more a mountain person then a sea person.

 

[MtbGirl]

It smells like............... fish!!!

 

[Waspy]

A mature tank should smell earthy and peaty, worry if its smells like rotten eggs or sulphur.

i just give my tank a good clean today, and some parts of the sand was a grey colour, it had a smell to it.
but i really cant remember if it was a sulphur smell, i just know it did not smell very nice...

next time i do a clean i will think before i do the sand..... if it does smell of sulphur what does it mean, and how can i fix it?


but anyhoo... i sniffed my tank and it smells like a normal fish tank, just earthy

 

[vinylman]

A moist Composty smell, like damp peat.

Yep; fabulous, isn't it?. Seriously though, it's a good indicator as to the health or otherwise of the tank.

 

[PlecMama]

wow, haven't seen this thread in over a year. I don't lock the office at all now, Dylan goes straight for the donuts and cable TV instead of to look at fish. What a difference a year makes.

Another "similar topics" hit?

 

[andywg]

Another "similar topics" hit?

Almost certainly. We really need something (like on other fora) to alert people to the fact they are replying to such an old post.