Brackish smell

[IanInDC]

Hey all:

29 gallons, softies, firefish, spotted blenny, 2 scooter dragonets.

Seaclone 100 skimmer, CPR backpack fuge, small penguin filter.

It has long been fine, and the readings are all normal.

Suddenly, in the last few hours, it smells very much like some marsh, very brakish; kind of like the time I left a bucket of water with algae from a water change out overnight.

None of my fish are dead, I see them all. I can't imagine an invertibrate would cause a major smell by dying, and I don't see any dead inverts anyway.

The only change I can think of is that I started feeding P.E. mysis in the past few days, and I admittedly put a little too many in tonight. But even on that front, I'm very conscientious about scooping out extras, and it wasn't THAT many.

Any thoughts or experience with that smell?

 

[cutsupremetrib]

ummmm tanks can smell wierd thats for sure what are ur params have u checked ur salinity it cant be brackish if its at 1.025

 

[melev]

You may need to clean out your skimmer.

 

[IanInDC]

Thanks, melev. That's good thinking but it's not it. I actually just did that yesterday.

cutsupreme, "brackish" is also an adjective describing a smell reminiscent of the marshes.

 

[melev]

Do you have any live rock that is exposed to air currently, perhaps in your sump?

 

[chocolateblnt]

Did you leave any fish food open or lying around or drop some wet mysid on your carpet Drop any algae on the ground?

 

[cutsupremetrib]

i know what brackish is lol Ive been to many marshes myself Im just saying that if ur salinity is normal its not brackish water maybe your smell is coming from some food or something

 

[JmLee]

one time i left a cup of mysis in some saltwater on top of my canopy for like two days with out noticing...... well... it didnt smell like marsh thats for sure.

 

[Mr.Furious]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=6877037#post6877037 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by JmLee
one time i left a cup of mysis in some saltwater on top of my canopy for like two days with out noticing...... well... it didnt smell like marsh thats for sure.

Bet you never did that again....:worried2:

 

[graveyardworm]

My tank has smelly days and not so smelly days, and I have no idea why. Maybe a fish just floated a log or something.

 

[SDguy]

My tank will definitely give off certain smells depending on what I fed my fish that day. Also, as mentioned, algae exposed to air can have a really strong odor. Halimeda in my garbage disposal can make it smell for a couple days.