smell

  1. chadfish

    How do you get the smell of coral slime off your hands?

    Sure, gloves are always best, but more than one of us have had to grab a frag with bare hands. Often SPS smells really bad, probably because it’s releasing some stress chemicals. I can’t seem to get it off my hands. I’ve tried different soaps, sanitizer, vinegar and baking soda.. What’s a...
  2. Diveks

    Skimate smells like parfume/flowers?

    Just a random question and i’m not sure if this is a cause of concern but one of my tank’s skimate smells like parfume. It’s been smelling like this since day 1. Once in awhile i do get the normal sewage smelling skimmate though. It is a dry skimming bubble magus in 10 month old tank. I first...
  3. Zoa_Fanatic

    Tank smells like a febreezd fruitcake

    So I added a toadstool to me tank a while ago. It’s not super huge. It’s maybe 10-12% of total coral biomass in the tank. Well I’ve noticed my tank has a kind of a rotten fruit+Ocean breeze smell. Like Febreze over a Christmas fruitcake. Is that what terpenes smell like? Nothing in my tank has...
  4. B

    Balancing Nitrates with Too Much Filtering Or a Smelly Tank

    Hey All, Im in a bit of a frustrating circle of events that I'm trying to balance and just looking for some advice on how others have balanced this. The tank is about two months old. It's a 120gallon peninsula system. Overall it's doing great, battling some diatoms at the moment but nothing...
  5. Lylelovett

    Superglue and accelerator - safe?

    Hi all, I had a pile of rubble that I wanted to make use of so I glued it together with superglue into some nice shapes, but to get it to hold well I used the spray accelerator. I noticed the rock still had a little bit of the odor of the accelerator so I've been soaking it in a bucket of RODI...
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