Treefer32
Valuable Member
This is odd, we've had a fair number of things happen unrelated to the tank. The furnace room is my fish room (75 gallon sump and most of the 340 gallon display is in the furnace room). I usually had a musty mildewy smell in the room because it was always warmer and more humid than the rest of the house. 2-3 weeks ago our basement flooded due to back flow valve failing within our drain tile or on the way out to the sewer at the same time the toilette flap stuck open in the basement. This led to anywhere from 800-2000 gallons flooding my basement floor, ironically stopping about 5 feet from the aquarium. . .
They sprayed antimicrobial spray after ripping the carpet out to prevent bacteria from building up on the wet spots then put in 12 fans and 4 dehumidifiers to air the basement out. It took 6 days to go from 76% humidity down to 36% humidity. My little dehumidifier in the fish room is now staying close to 40%. Used to not be able to get the room under 50%.
The basement has never been this dry since the home was built (water level is probably around the basement level).
The strangest thing has happened now. I walk into the fish room and smell a clear bleach or almost chlorine smell. It's something that's probably never been in that room. When I climb the ladder and smell the water and lights, I still smell the very clean ocean smell and almost a slight bleach smell. I normally would be happy it smells clean, but changing smells could be a problem. My T5HO bulbs are 2 -3 months overdue in being changed. My UV Bulb is overdue in being changed so, I shut the UV light off for now until I get it changed. Unless something happened with the LEDs getting less humidity would they generate a clean air smell?
All live stock is doing amazingly well, stats on the tank show no signs of any impending doom. It's disconcerting that I am smelling bleach from my fish room when there's no bleach anywhere near the fish room.
Is there a chemical reaction that would cause these smells? I did for the first time in a long time, completely fill the softener with 250 pounds of softener salt. It's never had more than 40-50lbs in the last 6 months. It could be a really dry salt smell. Lol.
Leaving for a week tomorrow, so, a bit concerned that new smells are happening right before I leave. lol.
They sprayed antimicrobial spray after ripping the carpet out to prevent bacteria from building up on the wet spots then put in 12 fans and 4 dehumidifiers to air the basement out. It took 6 days to go from 76% humidity down to 36% humidity. My little dehumidifier in the fish room is now staying close to 40%. Used to not be able to get the room under 50%.
The basement has never been this dry since the home was built (water level is probably around the basement level).
The strangest thing has happened now. I walk into the fish room and smell a clear bleach or almost chlorine smell. It's something that's probably never been in that room. When I climb the ladder and smell the water and lights, I still smell the very clean ocean smell and almost a slight bleach smell. I normally would be happy it smells clean, but changing smells could be a problem. My T5HO bulbs are 2 -3 months overdue in being changed. My UV Bulb is overdue in being changed so, I shut the UV light off for now until I get it changed. Unless something happened with the LEDs getting less humidity would they generate a clean air smell?
All live stock is doing amazingly well, stats on the tank show no signs of any impending doom. It's disconcerting that I am smelling bleach from my fish room when there's no bleach anywhere near the fish room.
Is there a chemical reaction that would cause these smells? I did for the first time in a long time, completely fill the softener with 250 pounds of softener salt. It's never had more than 40-50lbs in the last 6 months. It could be a really dry salt smell. Lol.
Leaving for a week tomorrow, so, a bit concerned that new smells are happening right before I leave. lol.
