bad smell in living room

[iLMaRiO]

i have my tank in the living room and there is always a bed smell, even after a skimmer deep clean

is this something normal or a tank should not smell at all?

i've installed today an air purifier (hepa13+Active carbone+2 more layes) filtering up to pm2.5 hoping to remove the smell.

any other solution? an ozone machine?

 

[JPM San Diego]

can you characterize the smell better? Is it a rotten egg sulfur smell? Does it smell like seaweed?

 

[iLMaRiO]

it change, mostly seaweed but even egg sulfur (like skimmer full)

 

[moorjames]

grab a spoonful of sand and smell it- does it stink the same?

 

[dakoop]

Have you tried running carbon

 

[PR_nano]

Are you running carbon?

 

[Woodyman]

Carbon above skimmer cup will help if that's what your smelling, on the plus side at least you know your skimmer is pulling stuff out and working as intended.

 

[Lyss]

IMO a healthy saltwater tank should smell kinda like a tide pool, and a freshwater tank should smell like fresh soil. But the room itself shouldn't smell bad from the tank. When my skimmer cup gets full I can smell it if I go near the back of the tank, but the room doesn't stink.

Carbon like others are mentioning is a good solution if you can't find any specifically treatable cause.

 

[YOYOYOReefer]

i think in general ozone is worth looking into, plus carbon above skimmer and ozone reactor.
some are more sensitive to smells my wife can tell if my ozone is off just like an orp meter lol.

 

[vtecintegra]

Carbon is the answer from my experience. I had something so putrid in the water it would make you gag. Must have been dead snails. I put in some carbon and in 48 hrs it was much better. 96 it was pretty much gone. Tank is in the living room, so I run carbon most of the time now.

 

[iLMaRiO]

i Always run carbon inside the water

how do you Place the carbon above the skimmer Cup?

 

[Projects with Sam]

i Always run carbon inside the water

how do you Place the carbon above the skimmer Cup?

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[glency]

i Always run carbon inside the water

how do you Place the carbon above the skimmer Cup?

In a mesh bag, lay it on top.

 

[Patientman]

I have a round pond filter carbon pad … only about 1/4" thick … resting on skimmer lid … … carbon in sump about every other month … been working good for me!

 

[flashsmith]

Do you have a sump? Do you ever deep clean it? I do it every water change. Put a pump in there and run the hose end back through your filter sock. Keep stirring up the water and just let the pump do the work.

 

[iLMaRiO]

i have to find a good way to put the carbon on the redsea lid, as i have the handle to rotate the blades for cleaning

 

[dedragon]

Carbon works amazingly and i would see if the cheaper methods using activated carbon will help. If not these work really well at mitigating smells in the air, helps with dust too and apparently with viruses so the significant other should be all for it too. Just matters the room size and which you like better, Blue is a good one and pretty much any true h13 hepa filter one with activated carbon should work as well

 

[iLMaRiO]

Carbon works amazingly and i would see if the cheaper methods using activated carbon will help. If not these work really well at mitigating smells in the air, helps with dust too and apparently with viruses so the significant other should be all for it too. Just matters the room size and which you like better, Blue is a good one and pretty much any true h13 hepa filter one with activated carbon should work as well

i've installed one similiar to that, today

i'm also thinking adding a very small air extractor with a carbon filter, inside the sump cabinet. would it help?

 

[Tamberav]

I don’t smell anything bad from my tank. Did a snail crawl out and die maybe? Nerites love to crawl out.

 

[dedragon]

I think if you got one rated to your room size for at least 3x an hour, h13 true hepa, with activated carbon in the filter, you should be fine. Wait an hour and walk back in the room and see how it is working