Do you ever smell your skimmer and does it stink?
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yup!
mine gets upset when I bring the cups up to fertilize her orchids on the kitchen window sill... can't understand somethings sometimes
so let me go out on a limb here.
Whenever I take a taste of a diet soda, the aftertaste is so freaking nasty that I can only rationalize that for the folks (like my family members) that drink it daily must have had those chemoreceptors in their tongues overloaded and masked by regular and repeated exposures, otherwise how could they stand the taste that I taste.
Might be the same for those who say doesn't really bother them (like me). Folks, if it is a rich, thick, 2-4 day old skimmate, so thick that it coats the neck, it smells. May not seep into the room, but it smells. if you don't notice it, might be the diet cola phenomenon.
Of course that's just my opinion, and I could be wrong
Whenever I take a taste of a diet soda, the aftertaste is so freaking nasty that I can only rationalize that for the folks (like my family members) that drink it daily must have had those chemoreceptors in their tongues overloaded and masked by regular and repeated exposures, otherwise how could they stand the taste that I taste.
Might be the same for those who say doesn't really bother them (like me). Folks, if it is a rich, thick, 2-4 day old skimmate, so thick that it coats the neck, it smells. May not seep into the room, but it smells. if you don't notice it, might be the diet cola phenomenon.
Of course that's just my opinion, and I could be wrong
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Of course, as they say in the commercial, I may be nose blind!
MakeSomeWaffles
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I once dumped my skimmer cup into the bathroom vanity sink and it blocked the drain and left the most disgusting residue all over it.
Mrs almost took my head off lol
Mrs almost took my head off lol
Right! that's a big worry for me having my tank in the living room. I'm always asking close friends "Do you smell anything?". In college I dated a girl who's friend had like 4 poodles in her house that urinated everywhere. When you first walked in, the small of urine was like hitting a wall of ammonia!! but no one who lived in the house would bat an eyelash because they were all nose blind to it!
hardcorefishhead
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I definately smell my skimmer as soon as I walk in the room. I recently started putting a little carbon in the skimmer cup which seems to help, I also ordered the "StinkSink" from ReefEco.
NinjaSushi
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Maybe my tank is still young but my skimmers don't stink. Perhaps I'm over skimming.
Never any smell until I open it up to dump/clean it, then oh boy! I run a recirculating Co2 scrubber that takes care of most of it and a bag of bituminous carbon sets on top for anything that sneaks by. She never was squeamish with smells but my wife had a very mild case of Covid last year (we think) and her olfactory system hasn't worked well since. So I'm in the clear
Depends on how much I feed tank but yeah it can unleash the dank stank of nutrient export.
Exactly the same with me. Skimmer works superb, and always has, but even with thick baby poop looking material pulled out of the neck and cup at every cleaning, no smell. The larger collection reservoir draining from the cup might smell slightly when emptied into the toilet, but nothing special. I think it probably has to do with whatever microbial ecosystem is in a tank.
“Sensory adaptation”Right! that's a big worry for me having my tank in the living room. I'm always asking close friends "Do you smell anything?". In college I dated a girl who's friend had like 4 poodles in her house that urinated everywhere. When you first walked in, the small of urine was like hitting a wall of ammonia!! but no one who lived in the house would bat an eyelash because they were all nose blind to it!
CoralB
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Yah that’s bad !!!
Karen00
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It's well known that a lot of people experience a nasty after taste with aspartame which is in most diet sodas. My father was the same. He would always say he would be left with a wretched after taste. He also couldn't eat frozen vegetables. He kept saying they left a really bad taste in his mouth. Supposedly a lot of people experience a nasty flavour with both diet soda and frozen vegetables. They're linked somehow with some people.
Maybe people who can't smell skimmate all share the same type of nasal receptors.
I think there should be a study done. 
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The question is poorly phrased.
Do you ever smell your skimmer and does it stink?
Do I ever smell it? Well when I clean it out I can't help but catch a whiff, but it's not like I'm done there nose-****** it. Does it stink? Every time I catch a whiff, but, again, it's not like I'm down there shoving my nose in it.
I just emptied mine last night, about 1/2 full, and it stunk, as it's rotting decaying matter. But a mis-calculation after a water change caused it to fill up overnight, and that wasn't as stinky, as it was mainly wet skimmate. The dry stuff I aim for is nasty.
EDIT: I would note I didn't use a curse word, I tried to take the higher ground and used e f f i n g. I didn't realize the filter would catch that. Sorry to all involved.
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