Smell ?

[irishdaisy]

I noticed an odour coming from my tank.
Ph Nitrates/ nitrites/ ammonia are normal.
I do regular water changes all the time.
I have no artificial castles etc. .
I have a good amount of live plants
I put fluval Excel and plant food sometimes.
I treated for inch 3 weeks ago for 3 days with nox inch but have changed the filter media and water since then

Not sure what to do to get rid of the smell.?!?

I was Abit overstocked but I fixed that today so maybe the smell will go away soon

Now I have a 26 gallon tank with

a fluval c3 filter
(I took out the second mini filter I had In There and used it on another tank for all the guppy fry.

3 (2inch) silver mollies
1 male 2 females

3 (1.5 inch) platys all male

2 hatchets (1 inch)

And 3 (1.5 inch) plecos
That I'm rehoming this week and replacing with 5 ottos

And 2 (1.5 inch) adult female guppies

Might have 5or 6 guppy fry but I'm moving them to the fry tank as I see them.


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[MissGurnus]

I'd do a 50% or more water change and see if that might help. Something could be rotting in the tank water or substrate (could be simple as food that didn't get eaten)

 

[irishdaisy]

I'd do a 50% or more water change and see if that might help. Something could be rotting in the tank water or substrate (could be simple as food that didn't get eaten)

Thanks I did a 25percent change last night. I did a 15 percent water change this morning. I'm going to test it again tonight then do a 40percent water change.maybe I don't vacuum enough. (My tank is big and my vacuum is small )lol I might go buy a bigger vacuum tomorrow, that could have something to do with it. I rinsed the filter this afternoon and did smell the same smell but stronger in the dirty filter water so could be the loose plant leaves that got sucked up. .


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[irishdaisy]

I just hope when I lift my driftwood there's not any dead guppy fry ( I highly doubt it since I cleaned it four days ago and no one had babies lol ) but the tiny possibility totally creeps me out !


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[MissGurnus]

I know right? XD i hope you're able to find the cause(s)! It can be tricky sometimes >____> i had a platy die underneath my rock work (in a cave) once and by the time I found him he was pretty gross...

 

[MissGurnus]

Pretty much any smell from any tank will be some form of rot

 

[irishdaisy]

Well there were no dead fishes and surprisingly not a lot of dirt either. . But I did get a bunch out and rinsed the filter etc. maybe I need to change the carbon


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[irishdaisy]

But I broke my nice driftwood when I lifted it out of the water :/ I'm going. To order something decorative to put in my tank. Maybe a Buddha or a dragon


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[irishdaisy]

Im still not that good at water changed and vacuuming. I basically end up re arranging everything once a week lol. I'm going to post a before pic here in this thread now and tomorrow I will post an after shot of what it turned into .. I basically jst shove Any plant I see uprooted back down in random spots. I stopped trying to plan it perfectly and symmetrical it's impossible lol


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[MissGurnus]

Nooooooooooo I'm sorry that's really unfortunate... Has the smell at least cleared up?

 

[MissGurnus]

Woah that's really pretty

 

[irishdaisy]

Woah that's really pretty

Thanks that was my fave look so far but unfortunately it doesn't look like that at all anymore. I left more spaces In Between the plants for easier viewing of the roots area . It still smells. tomorrow morning I'm going to smell it if it's worse or the same I'll change more water. I think there is still a possibility that one plant is dying/ browning now at the bottom of it so I'm gonna check. Maybe I'm over feeding ..


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[MissGurnus]

Huh. It's a possibility there's too much food but it'd be hard to tell with all the live plants.

 

[trennamw]

What does it smell like? Swampy? Or like rotten fish?

Some smell is normal.

Sounds like you might be overdoing the cleaning, actually, stirring stuff up too much.


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[irishdaisy]

What does it smell like? Swampy? Or like rotten fish?

Some smell is normal.

Sounds like you might be overdoing the cleaning, actually, stirring stuff up too much.


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It smells swampy. Maybe it is normal. I never smelled it before but I had mostly only guppy dry before. . Ya I think tomorrow I'm going test it and then leave it be for a week and see what's going on. I will feed them abit less. Might be the sinking pellets I just started using for the plecos


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[irishdaisy]

*guppy fry


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[irishdaisy]

Here's what it looks like now. Not bad a few plants got uprooted again


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[irishdaisy]

Well today I vacuumed the corners
n did a 20 percent water change
and put a new carbon in the big filter. I suspect it's time for me to rinse and change the carbon in the small filter too but i had none left so I'll wait till next week. So the smell is still there but better. Maybe it's normal lol it's not that bad. But I never noticed it before. Maybe because it's hotter in my house than last week. Who knows.


Ohh and then I went out ,got back home and I see at least 8 silver Molly fry. And one guppy fry (that I must have missed when I gave away the 27 guppy fry lol They are the cutest thing schooling together


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