Need Help With Fish Tank smelling

[AnthonyFish20]

I’m not sure what kinda smell you had, but keep an eye on your tap water. Whenever my water smells off it’s normally because my well water has some kinda change. My ammonia spiked in my well and it made the water smell awful.
Just thought I’d throw that out there.

nah its just the tilapia i threw in there but smell went away after doing some cleaning and stopped feeding tilapia now

 

[Arthur11]

I have a new aquarium in my room and to prevent the smell it will cause, I have come up with several options to get rid of the fish tank smell. I use a dehumidifier to maintain the air quality. Always check the filter system and replace the filter pads to make sure they don't create odors. And it is essential to schedule regular tank maintenance, so the chances of my aquarium smelling are very low.

 

[Arthur11]

I have a new aquarium in my room and to prevent the smell it will cause, I have come up with several options to get rid of the fish tank smell. I use a dehumidifier to maintain the air quality. Always check the filter system and replace the filter pads to make sure they don't create odors. And it is essential to schedule regular tank maintenance, so the chances of my aquarium smelling are very low.

There will be a day when your fish tank smells so bad, so learning ways to eliminate the foul odor of fish tanks is an excellent skill to learn as an aquarist.

 

[jjohnwm]

I have a new aquarium in my room and to prevent the smell it will cause... I have come up with several options to get rid of the fish tank smell.

People should not think of an aquarium as something which will inevitable have a foul odour, and which requires special tricks to make it possible to stomach having it in the home. It is not a trick to maintain a healthy clean aquarium, or to avoid overfeeding.

News flash: there is no reason to expect an aquarium to stink. Do some (or most...) fishfoods smell? Yep, absolutely. The aroma is an inevitable result of the ingredients used, and serves to make the stuff more attractive and palatable to the fish. The idea is for the food to be eaten...immediately. The old saw about feeding no more than your fish can eat in 2 minutes, 5 minutes or whatever is correct. My own tanks may be fed only once daily if I am away from home and the feeding duties have fallen upon my wife. When I'm home I will feed several times daily. In neither case will there be food left over after more than a couple of minutes.

Exceptions might include herbivorous fish whose food is grazed upon for several hours after being offered. Vegetable foods of that type tend to be low in odour and slow to decompose, and even then a few hours is the max before I remove the remainders.

A healthy tank should have, at most, a faint natural "earthy-garden" type of aroma; if someone finds that offensive then perhaps keeping fish is not the ideal hobby to pursue...

There will be a day when your fish tank smells so bad, so learning ways to eliminate the foul odor of fish tanks is an excellent skill to learn as an aquarist.

No, keeping your tank from ever producing a foul odour is the skill to learn, and it is not a difficult task.

 

[esoxlucius]

People should not think of an aquarium as something which will inevitable have a foul odour, and which requires special tricks to make it possible to stomach having it in the home. It is not a trick to maintain a healthy clean aquarium, or to avoid overfeeding.

News flash: there is no reason to expect an aquarium to stink. Do some (or most...) fishfoods smell? Yep, absolutely. The aroma is an inevitable result of the ingredients used, and serves to make the stuff more attractive and palatable to the fish. The idea is for the food to be eaten...immediately. The old saw about feeding no more than your fish can eat in 2 minutes, 5 minutes or whatever is correct. My own tanks may be fed only once daily if I am away from home and the feeding duties have fallen upon my wife. When I'm home I will feed several times daily. In neither case will there be food left over after more than a couple of minutes.

Exceptions might include herbivorous fish whose food is grazed upon for several hours after being offered. Vegetable foods of that type tend to be low in odour and slow to decompose, and even then a few hours is the max before I remove the remainders.

A healthy tank should have, at most, a faint natural "earthy-garden" type of aroma; if someone finds that offensive then perhaps keeping fish is not the ideal hobby to pursue...



No, keeping your tank from ever producing a foul odour is the skill to learn, and it is not a difficult task.

It seriously baffles me when hobbyists say their aquariums stink bad. The only odour coming from my tanks is indeed the "earthy-garden" smell you mentioned, and even then you literally have to stick your nose inside the canopy, it is that faint.

I suppose regular maintenance and never overfeeding have helped enormously in this.