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anyone ever got that smell where the tank smells like fish

i had it so many times and the smell circulated throught the house. how do you get rid of that smell?

i just stopped buying fish because of it.

This used to happen when i would over feed and food would be left in the water. It may also be that your filtration needs an upgrade.

freshprince2146 wrote:This used to happen when i would over feed and food would be left in the water. It may also be that your filtration needs an upgrade.

im running a rena xp3 on my tank. the smell gets in the filter too.

theres a watter conditioner called clear water it removes cloudyness and odors only thing is you can not have any carbon filtering while it runs its course heres a pic of the bottles

vic021 wrote:theres a watter conditioner called clear water it removes cloudyness and odors only thing is you can not have any carbon filtering while it runs its course heres a pic of the bottles

thanks for the picture of what it looks like

if i see it ill get it. and i think my turtles will be happy having fish again lol

no problem i use it about every other week just cause when the fish dies it leaves the smell and it gets eleiminated by that

I notice the smell only exists in my tank when there is a film on the water surface. Maybe my situation is different, but have you tried directing the filter output to disturb the water surface so the protein film is destroyed?

papoopeepoo wrote:I notice the smell only exists in my tank when there is a film on the water surface. Maybe my situation is different, but have you tried directing the filter output to disturb the water surface so the protein film is destroyed?

i never got that film though. and the output is usually close to the waters surface. so maybe it does but im really not sure.

Bkf-get you - Water change, larger filter with a lot of carbon. Good Luck

ill know that for next time mike! thanks

(i don't have the problem now. only when i get/have fish)