tank smell!!!!!!!! plz help does carbon help smell?

[Myarbro]

protein skimmer

it will help with the film on the top. Depending on what caused the film, it could smell pretty bad.

 

[syntaxx]

IMO when the bubbles does not pops in less than 5 secs i believe it is a ammonia spike. have you test your water already? Also bad smell comes from ammonia spike too..

 

[KaiserSousay]

largest fish is a 7inch ........................................................................ i think they smell less and are like half the price hahahah

Man, from your post I think your pretty lucky the smell isn`t coming from a bunch of dead fish.
If it were me, I would be busy with water changes and daily testing for ammonia and nitrites.
A bit of media from an established tank does not a cycle make.
Using a UGF and not cleaning the gravel will turn that into a nitrate factory even if it is run, reverse flow.
You can do some gravel cleaning and not kill off all your growing BB, it will just grow somewhere else.
Light feeding, allot of water changes with some vacuum action on that gravel would be my routine if your tank showed up in my house in the condition and history you described.

 

[Tiger-army]

Man, from your post I think your pretty lucky the smell isn`t coming from a bunch of dead fish.
If it were me, I would be busy with water changes and daily testing for ammonia and nitrites.
A bit of media from an established tank does not a cycle make.
Using a UGF and not cleaning the gravel will turn that into a nitrate factory even if it is run, reverse flow.
You can do some gravel cleaning and not kill off all your growing BB, it will just grow somewhere else.
Light feeding, allot of water changes with some vacuum action on that gravel would be my routine if your tank showed up in my house in the condition and history you described.

dude what is with the hostility if ur not going to say any thing nice dont say any thing at all not to mention u only said what was already said multible times in this thread and if u dodnt read it correctly i cycled the tank 2 weeks with out any fish in it the tank is very clean i asure u of that the only thing i have not done that you mentioned was clean the gravel but i was told that that should only be done every few months to keep the gravel filter working properly
done with this side conversation back to the main
i didnt feed the fish massivor for the past 2 days and no smell at all the water even lost its musky smell problem is only the cl and 2 of the bichirs will eat the floating hikari pellets wich sux becuz they #1 dont make my water smell #2 looks cooler when bichirs come to the top to feed #3 are falf the price!!!
any input to get my fish on floating pellets? im sure if i starved them they would eat it and any time i ask any one about pellet training i get the anser starv them lol i just dont like to do that haha
p.s. pics of the tank up soon im excited cuz the bichirs colors look amazing never seen an ornate as yellow as mine =D wish me luck that the fish stay still!

 

[CHOMPERS]

if ur not going to say any thing nice dont say any thing at all

Punctuation is free. Please use it. And the spelling checker is that ABC button in the upper right corner of the post page. It is free too.

The reason it seems that no one is properly reading your posts is because they aren't. They can't. Your writing is a mess. Please be courteous and help us to understand what you are trying to say. It doesn't take any extra time to drop in a period at the end of a sentence and it only takes a few moments to run the spelling checker.

 

[CHOMPERS]

carbon will help.

Active carbon definitely helps. Add some to your filter.

I agree.

That's really hard to read without any punctuation.

carbon

Nobody saw that you wrote this:

i changed the carbon 2 times this month and it holds about 2 pounds of it

 

[_Jessica_]

This a period-> . You use it at the end of a complete thought, such as:
The fish jumped out of the tank.

it is really hard to read a complete paragraph without puncuation spelling capitalization proper grammar and so forth because no one can understand what you are saying and it annoys the beejeezus out of everyone and we are trying to help you with your fish and trying to understand what is going on in your tank but if we cant understand what you are typing we cant even begin to help you because of how tiring and how much time it takes to read your thoughts and its already hard to get the complete picture without being there with you your lucky anyone has replied at all

 

[Darth Scohin]

Your tank smells because of Massivore, thats practically the end of the thread.
Now your tank is terribly Overstocked regardless of filtration, you need a 180gal minimum for an adult Ornate Bichir and I have no idea about Dats....And a API Ammonia and Nitrate liquid test will work best

 

[darippa]

Yup, Ive heard from lots of people, Massivore stinks. I stay away from it cause it's expensive as @#*$%!

 

[KaiserSousay]

dude what is with the hostility if ur not going to say any thing nice dont say any thing at all

Dude...
Nothing in my post was hostile.
If you don`t want to hear what others think, don`t ask questions on an open forum.