Smelly Filter.

[Ace135]

I don't know if this is the right place to put this under but...



I recently set up a new 45 gallon and was cycling it for about 2 weeks, and today my room started to smell. This time I wasn’t the two day old pizza on my desk. The smell was coming from my filter. The filer is a HOB. For the bio media I used pot scubies, and I use the carbon inserts. All my water parameters where spot on. Any idea what caused this?


It smells like super old gym socks if that’s any help.

 

[frasertheking]

all filters have a smell but if it smells bad then it sounds like a bad thing, the only time something smells bad in my tanks is when something has gone bad .

 

[navygirl76]

what exactly ARE your water parameters? ammonia, nitrite and nitrate levels? try changing out the charcoal-it doesnt last long at all. you may have something wrong in the parameters, a bacterial bloom or a dead fish (hey, its happened lol) that got in the filter.

 

[Tigerfish908]

what exactly ARE your water parameters? ammonia, nitrite and nitrate levels? try changing out the charcoal-it doesnt last long at all. you may have something wrong in the parameters, a bacterial bloom or a dead fish (hey, its happened lol) that got in the filter.

There has to be something dead or rotten in the tank if it smells bad.
Post ur params.

 

[Ace135]

Well i wouldn't have caught it without you guys.


the guppies i put in to cycle bread and a lot of the fry got sucked in to the filter where dead and rotting... Thanks for the help.

 

[navygirl76]

ewwww lol. hey, it happens to all of us! good thing you caught it now.. just do a good waterchange, replace the charcoal and retest your parameters.. wait a few days and do another waterchange... you should be good then..