I keep a 40 gallon tank in my room currently home to a 2 inch juvie green and a 3 inch adult pumpkinseed. I had another pumpkinseed in there but it was dying and it started smelling bad when it started to die. I decided to kill it quickly then let it suffer. I killed it and burried it 2 feet under in my backyard, anyways, A day later the smell went away. But now a few days later it's coming back, but both of the remaining fish are healthy. My tank is heavilly filtered and the like, but unsalted. What do you suggest?
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, May 16 2007 05:58 PM
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Posted 16 May 2007 - 07:03 PM
I suggest two things, one being a large water change. Second I suggest testing your water, hopefully you have test kits for ammonia, nitrite and nitrate already but if not go out and get some. I also have a question for you, did you cycle your aquarium?
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Posted 16 May 2007 - 07:15 PM
Gosh, I can think of a lot of things that smell horrid... it might help if you could be a bit more specific as to what it smelled like? Rotten egg? Rotten flesh? Ammonia? Nail polish remover? Dead fish? Cat pee? BO? Diaper pail? That thing in the back of the fridge? (and you're sure it's from the tank and that the cat hasn't been leaving little gifts behind the stand...?)
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Posted 16 May 2007 - 07:50 PM
an un-cycled tank will often have a smell
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Posted 17 May 2007 - 07:32 PM
I did the few inches of fish thing for like a week and a half.. then I got the first pumpkinseed. The cycling fish was a juvenile green sunfish... It smelled like fish.. not nescesarilly dead... just like a bucket full of gills ready to be flayed.
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Posted 17 May 2007 - 08:01 PM
Not long enough in my experience. If you do not seed a tank with live bacteria from an existing tank, the cycling process can take up to two months. Check into fishless cycling, you can cut the time down greatly, and be ready to stock the tank at normal densities right off the bat. http://aquaticpredat...?showtopic=4931
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Posted 17 May 2007 - 09:22 PM
Make sure you get some test kits like I said before, without them you won't know the progress of your cycle or if your tank is cycled at all.
I also suggest you re-read this thread where we went over how to cycle and stock your aquarium...
http://forum.nanfa.o...wtopic=1470&hl=
I also suggest you re-read this thread where we went over how to cycle and stock your aquarium...
http://forum.nanfa.o...wtopic=1470&hl=
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Posted 17 May 2007 - 10:36 PM
Is the water discolored?
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Posted 18 May 2007 - 10:53 AM
Carbon filtration may cut down on the smell a bit.
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Posted 23 May 2007 - 11:13 AM
I had a tank with a sand bottom, the sand did not get stirred and it had a horrid smell if disturbed, it also would kill any fish close to where a disruption of the sand occured. I just thought this might help a little.
Tom
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Posted 23 May 2007 - 02:13 PM
I don't mean to get off topic, but...I had a tank with a sand bottom, the sand did not get stirred and it had a horrid smell if disturbed, it also would kill any fish close to where a disruption of the sand occured. I just thought this might help a little.
Tom
My uncle had a big aquarium, where he kept a flathead catfish (until it got too big). He had sand in his aquarium and the samething that you described happened to his aquarium (except for the catfish).
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Posted 23 May 2007 - 09:35 PM
Thats from the sand compacting and trapping massive amounts of ammonia and the like. Also sand will bury extra food and such.I don't mean to get off topic, but...
My uncle had a big aquarium, where he kept a flathead catfish (until it got too big). He had sand in his aquarium and the samething that you described happened to his aquarium (except for the catfish).
Chad
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