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yup!One thing that smells absolutely awful, that you wouldn’t think would smell that bad, is day old nori left in the algae clip.
mine gets upset when I bring the cups up to fertilize her orchids on the kitchen window sill... can't understand somethings sometimesBoy do I ever catch it from the wife when I empty my two skimmers it can stink up the whole house before I can get a lid on the bucket.
Jeff
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!Of course, as they say in the commercial, I may be nose blind!
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.Yes, you must take in the aroma of "tank wine" to make sure the skimmer is working.
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.Now that you mention, mine does not, even when I clean the neck and cup it’s however poop looking lol
“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!
Yah that’s bad !!!One thing that smells absolutely awful, that you wouldn’t think would smell that bad, is day old nori left in the algae clip.
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.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
The question is poorly phrased.I typically only smell the stench when I forget to empty my skimmer cup and it starts to bubble over.