My living room is about 15x17, hard wood floors. Windows almost always open. I have a 125 fowlr and i recently started smelling the ocean. Not a fishy smell. I dont have any covers other than some eggcrate to keep fish from jumping and i clean my skimmer every 3 days. What can i do to get rid of the smell. Also have a 40 sump uncovered.
Living room starting to smell like the ocean
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List your filtration and livestock.
Also, how often are you doing water changes?
Also, how often are you doing water changes?
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It could just be really humid? I don't seem to have any issues... but yes please list what you are running.
Keep good water movement, run carbon, and keep the filtration strong and you shouldn't have an issue. Also maybe there's salt creep somewhere that is super heavy smelling?
Keep good water movement, run carbon, and keep the filtration strong and you shouldn't have an issue. Also maybe there's salt creep somewhere that is super heavy smelling?
I have a dual overflow running into sump with asm g3 skimmer middle is a fugue with sand bed and just added cheato yesterday. Then a mag 7 return with a 18w turbotwist uv. About 100 lbs of live rock. Not running any carbon. And it does get humid. 2 koralia 4s for movement. Livestock is bluethroat trigger lrg. Porc puffer med. Maroon clown lrg. Harlequin med. Naso sm hippo juvi. Mimic. Juvi.
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- Huntington
Water change schedule?
I would run carbon in there at least a little to reduce some of the organics in the water and help with the smell but my guess is you probably need to do more water changes.
Do you have the UV inline with your return pump back up to the tank?
I would run carbon in there at least a little to reduce some of the organics in the water and help with the smell but my guess is you probably need to do more water changes.
Do you have the UV inline with your return pump back up to the tank?
ryangrieder
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ESV carbon did the trick for me when this happened to me awhile back. normal carbon did not work, Chemi pure did, but expensive to replace, and now ESV carbon worked perfect for me...
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- North Jersey
I get this alot in the summer with the AC on, probably becuase of the recirculating ari. I kind of like it though, reminds me of the shore.
- Location
- Northern NJ
Skimmer + carbon
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- Garden city
Bleach in ur skimate collector problem solved
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i do atleast 10% water change a week. uv is on the return line, and i thought it could be the skimmate as well, that stuff made me gag the other day! the odor isn't terrible and it does remind me of being on the shore. i don't mind it that much, just don't want it to get worse. when the ceiling fan is on, you can't even smell it.
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- Garden city
Leave bleach in it only problem with it is u won't know how ur skimate really looks so u have to be happy with ur skimate production
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- Long Island, New York
This just sounds like a tank crash thread waiting to happen.
What happens if you drop the skimmate cup in the sump accidentally?
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- Garden city
I'm sorry the skimate collector has to be out of sump obviously not good idea if this isn't an option
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- Huntington
Not that it has anything to do with the smell but having an 18watt UV attached to the output of a mag 7 is just going to toast the algae and give it a nice bronze so it looks like it was on vacation. That flow rate isn't killing anything. You're at least triple what I would suggest running through that for that size tank and UV.
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