How to get rid of rotten fish smell
Aquarium Odor Stinks Like Rotten Eggs?!
today's question is my fish tank stinks
I have a video on this that is years old
and I apologize because I have some
repeat videos but I'm just answering
questions because instead of typing to
these people I just rather shoot a quick
video and upload it because it's easier
and then future people can watch the
video and learn from it okay so step one
if your tank stinks you need to get a
water testing kit first of all that way
it you need to narrow it down to
specific things it could be in the tank
first of all most commonly it's your
water get a water testing kit strip the
tetris strips are easy if you don't want
to mess around with all the liquid vials
and so forth the tetris tips are really
good I'll throw a link in the
description box certain brands of the
strip's
are aren't reputable so you got to use
specific ones there's a link in the
description box test your water see if
your nitrates are too high or your
ammonia is too high if your ammonia soo
high maybe your tank is in cycles well
enough etc let's move on past water next
yeah it could be a dead fish is
something decaying in your your tank
maybe you have a hidden dead fish in
your tank I always tell people when
you're cleaning your tank to move
everything and rearrange everything
every time you do a gravel cleaning /aa
water change just because I'm always
fascinated by how much like debris will
build up on the side of a rock just from
sitting there for a week and I'll think
oh I'm just going to grab will vacuum
around it this one time every time you
got to lift it up and just move things
around it really helps keep the tank
just a healthier because you have a
better hand on how clean it actually is
by moving everything around and I know
it sucks because well I got a we were
paying them
and I know it sucks moving stuff around
because you have a certain aquascape
that you're obsessed with and you don't
want to move it around well just maybe
just lift it up and then put it back
down get the gravel vacuum in there
thirdly how dirty is your gravel that is
another really miss common deal that
beginners miss they're like oh I have to
clean the gravel yeah I get people
telling me oh I haven't cleaned my
gravel in a year man and my tanks fine
your fish are probably on the edge of
their life to be honest with me and you
got to do gravel vacuums because in
aquariums everything sinks to the bottom
and that's where everything that's nasty
falls to the bottom so you got to do a
gravel vacuum next on the list would be
a dead fish I said that next I would say
it's something else around the tank you
know Oh lids you should get lids on your
tank not 100% totally sealed but you
know 80% of the way seal just because um
everything if it's you know you're
withholding everything within the tank
and some people will argue oh well
you're just smothering it you know
within the tank so when you open the lid
it's just going to explode in here and
really smell um that is a valid argument
sorry I'm adjusting my phone here my
arms getting sore after three minutes of
video that is a valid argument but I've
found that lids work better and I've
moved over back to having lids and all
my tanks it's just better get some lids
lastly um let's try to think what else
it could be
food fish food stinks I've learned that
people a a couple of my colleagues have
told me that
fish food is the the reason their fish
room smells you know you've got big bags
of
like this this stuff stinks so what I've
done to combat it let's move here with
me is you buy these zip locks the
expensive zip locks for you hide your
food within the ziplock and I've
actually literally double bagged foods
like this this has a zip lock on it and
it stinks through the zip lock I don't I
don't know how but I will literally
double bag this maybe even triple bag it
because my wife my wife's pregnant right
now and her sense of smell she can smell
what is on the bottom of your shoes like
literally my fish room is a bit
bothersome to her right now especially
because she's pregnant
so um bag brie bag or fish food I'm
trying to think what else it could be
I've listed 4 thing 4 or 5 things so
after that you're going to just you're
going to want to do water changes you
know maybe something's not right
make sure your tank is cycled if you're
having any problems with the whole cycle
process I know it is confusing go to
your local fish store and ask them for a
used filter or a chunk of the padding
out of their filter system and throw it
in your filter and it'll jumpstart your
whole system that's the easiest way to
do it I tell tons of newbies to do that
and I've even done it way back in the
day now what I do when I'm setting up a
new tank is I'll just take the filter
and throw it on the new tank and just
jumpstart it so once you're going it's a
lot easier
yeah I've been babbling now for five
minutes and yeah I got fish bagging all
over the place I'm convinced no matter
how much you feed them they always want
more and I'm worried about my water so
yeah anyways that's it for this video
why does your aquarium smell um don't
worry about it just get it fixed do
water changes get the tanks cycled make
sure there's no dead fish bagged up your
food um get lids on your tank etc it's a
it seems like a lot but it's really not
so and I've learned to not even notice
his smell this smells heaven for me my
fishroom is like I hope my clothes smell
like it I should be that weird I'll at
work that everyone's like hey hey you
know Chris stinks you know ah yeah I'm
not crazy cat lady with fish um yeah
that's it guys um it's kind of cool I'm
getting back in the youtubes more and
more now I got a couple channels if
you're interested just hit me up
I got moderator messages just flying all
over my screen here all right cool guys
I got to get back to the betta fish
keepers group we have a group chat
interview tonight or interviewing for
new moderators so not that you care I'm
just blabbing all right I'm up
