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How should an aquarium smell?
Should a freshwater aquarium have a smell?
Sometimes I get a "stale" smell coming from my 2.5-gallon betta aquariums. And I sometimes get a foul smell from my 10-gallon aquarium (a dozen glo-light and neon tetras, a pleco, a SAE, and about four ghost shrimp). I vacuum the tank and do water changes, although probably not as often as I should. I've also started using distilled water, since our local tap water is very hard and God only knows what's in it! (I won't drink the stuff.) Thanks in advance, -- 8^)~~~ Sue (remove the x to e-mail) ~~~~~~ "I reserve the absolute right to be smarter today than I was yesterday." -Adlai Stevenson http://www.suzanne-eckhardt.com/ http://www.intergnat.com/malebashing/ http://www.intergnat.com/pussygames/ |
How should an aquarium smell?
I hope you not just using straight
distilled water as that is VERY bad for fish. The purest water has no life. How true that is. Sean |
How should an aquarium smell?
Hi..
Should a freshwater aquarium have a smell? Yes, like wood earth or wood moss. Sometimes I get a "stale" smell coming from my 2.5-gallon betta aquariums. And I sometimes get a foul smell from my 10-gallon aquarium (a dozen glo-light and neon tetras, a pleco, a SAE, and about four ghost shrimp). Change water. That 10g tank might be a little over stocked.. I vacuum the tank and do water changes, although probably not as often as I should. I've also started using distilled water, since our local tap water is very hard and God only knows what's in it! (I won't drink the stuff.) Are you possibly able to collect and use (prepared!) rain water or snow water? -- cu Marco |
How should an aquarium smell?
"Suzie-Q" wrote in message ... Should a freshwater aquarium have a smell? A clean healthy aquarium has a faint pleasant lake-like aroma. Sometimes I get a "stale" smell coming from my 2.5-gallon betta aquariums. It sounds like it's time for a partial water change! And I sometimes get a foul smell from my 10-gallon aquarium (a dozen glo-light and neon tetras, a pleco, a SAE, and about four ghost shrimp). This tank sounds a bit overcrowded and probably also needs some partial water changes. Larger changes and more often. Vacuum the gravel as well. I vacuum the tank and do water changes, although probably not as often as I should. How often are you doing them? A least once every 10 days?!?!?! I've also started using distilled water, since our local tap water is very hard and God only knows what's in it! (I won't drink the stuff.) Fish will die at some point in distilled water. It's not a good idea and is also expensive when water change time comes. You can mix it 50/50 with your tap water if your tap water is hard and alkaline. Thanks in advance, -- Koi-Lo.... frugal ponding since 1995... Aquariums since 1952 My Pond & Aquarium Pages: http://tinyurl.com/9do58 Note: There are two Koi-Lo's on the Aquaria groups. ~~~ }((((o ~~~ }{{{{o ~~~ }(((((o |
How should an aquarium smell?
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"Koi-Lo" wrote: - "Suzie-Q" wrote: - - Should a freshwater aquarium have a smell? - - A clean healthy aquarium has a faint pleasant lake-like aroma. - - Sometimes I get a "stale" smell coming from my 2.5-gallon betta aquariums. - - It sounds like it's time for a partial water change! - - And I sometimes get a foul smell from my 10-gallon aquarium (a dozen - glo-light - and neon tetras, a pleco, a SAE, and about four ghost shrimp). - - This tank sounds a bit overcrowded and probably also needs some partial - water changes. Larger changes and more often. Vacuum the gravel as well. Overcrowded with all those little tiny fish (and shrimp)? Another thing I never would have imagined. - I vacuum the tank and do water changes, although probably not as often as - I should. - - How often are you doing them? A least once every 10 days?!?!?! Maybe every two or three weeks. I'll start doing them more often. - I've also started using distilled water, since our local tap water - is very hard and God only knows what's in it! (I won't drink the stuff.) - - Fish will die at some point in distilled water. It's not a good idea and is - also expensive when water change time comes. You can mix it 50/50 with your - tap water if your tap water is hard and alkaline. Man, I'm an idiot when it comes to fish. I had no idea about the distilled water. I'll use the tap water from now on. How about filtered tap water? (I have one of those Pur filters that attaches to the faucet.) Is that okay? Thanks to all of you who responded. -- 8^)~~~ Sue (remove the x to e-mail) ~~~~~~ "I reserve the absolute right to be smarter today than I was yesterday." -Adlai Stevenson http://www.suzanne-eckhardt.com/ http://www.intergnat.com/malebashing/ http://www.intergnat.com/pussygames/ |
How should an aquarium smell?
Suzie-Q wrote:
Should a freshwater aquarium have a smell? Yes. It's a gentle smell - like a pond or damp earth. It should not smell fishy and never "foul." Sometimes I get a "stale" smell coming from my 2.5-gallon betta aquariums. And I sometimes get a foul smell from my 10-gallon aquarium (a dozen glo-light and neon tetras, a pleco, a SAE, and about four ghost shrimp). Clean more and feed less. Leftover food or dead critters will foul a tank. Add some hornwort or anacharis - plants always help and your pleco won't do too much damage to floating plants. If he's a common pleco, he's going to outgrow a 10 gallon tank. I vacuum the tank and do water changes, although probably not as often as I should. I've also started using distilled water, since our local tap water is very hard and God only knows what's in it! (I won't drink the stuff.) Mix in some tapwater with the distilled so your pH doesn't crash. 1/3 hard tapwater should do the trick. -- Put the word aquaria in the subject to reply. Did you read the FAQ? http://faq.thekrib.com |
How should an aquarium smell?
A clean healthy aquarium has a faint pleasant lake-like aroma.
Hey that's it! "Lake-like". I was going to explain it as lightly-swampy but that has negative connotations. Lake-like is much better. |
How should an aquarium smell?
Not an idiot, i've had fish for years and just started getting guppies in
the last year and there were so many things i "should" have known, but didn't, dont worry about it, you know now, we all make mistakes, hay at least you did not kill anything...... Nikki "Suzie-Q" wrote in message ... In article , "Koi-Lo" wrote: - "Suzie-Q" wrote: - - Should a freshwater aquarium have a smell? - - A clean healthy aquarium has a faint pleasant lake-like aroma. - - Sometimes I get a "stale" smell coming from my 2.5-gallon betta aquariums. - - It sounds like it's time for a partial water change! - - And I sometimes get a foul smell from my 10-gallon aquarium (a dozen - glo-light - and neon tetras, a pleco, a SAE, and about four ghost shrimp). - - This tank sounds a bit overcrowded and probably also needs some partial - water changes. Larger changes and more often. Vacuum the gravel as well. Overcrowded with all those little tiny fish (and shrimp)? Another thing I never would have imagined. - I vacuum the tank and do water changes, although probably not as often as - I should. - - How often are you doing them? A least once every 10 days?!?!?! Maybe every two or three weeks. I'll start doing them more often. - I've also started using distilled water, since our local tap water - is very hard and God only knows what's in it! (I won't drink the stuff.) - - Fish will die at some point in distilled water. It's not a good idea and is - also expensive when water change time comes. You can mix it 50/50 with your - tap water if your tap water is hard and alkaline. Man, I'm an idiot when it comes to fish. I had no idea about the distilled water. I'll use the tap water from now on. How about filtered tap water? (I have one of those Pur filters that attaches to the faucet.) Is that okay? Thanks to all of you who responded. -- 8^)~~~ Sue (remove the x to e-mail) ~~~~~~ "I reserve the absolute right to be smarter today than I was yesterday." -Adlai Stevenson http://www.suzanne-eckhardt.com/ http://www.intergnat.com/malebashing/ http://www.intergnat.com/pussygames/ |
How should an aquarium smell?
It should smell like youwouldn't mind drinking it. Tough to do in
a small tank where the population densty is orders of magnitude higher than in nature. -- Need Mercedes parts ? - http://parts.mbz.org Richard Sexton | Mercedes stuff: http://mbz.org 1970 280SE, 72 280SE | Home page: http://rs79.vrx.net 633CSi 250SE/C 300SD | http://aquaria.net http://killi.net |
How should an aquarium smell?
"Altum" wrote in message om... Yes. It's a gentle smell - like a pond or damp earth. It should not smell fishy and never "foul." ================= If there's a foul or fishy smell that signifies (to me) stagnant water or water loaded with bacteria. If one of my tanks started to smell "bad" I'd really go wild with the vacuum. I'd make sure every inch of the gravel was done. I'd clean the filter and add another filter for at least awhile. An airstone would also help oxygenate the water and keep it moving. And lastly I would use some good quality activated carbon for a week or so. A foul smelling tank is not a healthy tank....... -- Koi-Lo.... frugal ponding since 1995... Aquariums since 1952 My Pond & Aquarium Pages: http://tinyurl.com/9do58 Note: There are two Koi-Lo's on the Aquaria groups. ~~~ }((((o ~~~ }{{{{o ~~~ }(((((o |
How should an aquarium smell?
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How should an aquarium smell?
Nuff said about the likes of Carol aka koi lo
On Mon, 6 Mar 2006 21:54:50 -0600, "Koi-Lo" wrote: "Altum" wrote in message gy.com... Yes. It's a gentle smell - like a pond or damp earth. It should not smell fishy and never "foul." ================= If there's a foul or fishy smell like me, as I often smell that way, its stagnant water or water loaded with bacteria. If one of my tanks started to smell "bad" I'd really go wild with theHoover vacuum. I'd make sure every inch of the gravel was done. I'd clean the filter and add another filter for at least awhile. An airstone would also help oxygenate the water and keep it moving. And lastly I would use some good quality activated carbon for a week or so. A foul smelling tank or in my case a foul nasty person is not a healthy . Which reminds me, its time again for my bi-monthly bath. -- \\\|/// ( @ @ ) -----------oOOo(_)oOOo--------------- oooO ---------( )----Oooo---------------- \ ( ( ) \_) ) / (_/ The original frugal ponder ! Koi-ahoi mates.... |
How should an aquarium smell?
JimmyC wrote:
Nuff said about... Hopefully Koi-lo can avoid the temptation to reply or retaliate to JimC's provocative and unethical post. Unethical because JimC's edited words that people posted, in a way that's offensive, insulting and provocative. Steve |
How should an aquarium smell?
On Tue, 07 Mar 2006 11:16:38 -0500, Steve wrote:
JimmyC wrote: Nuff said about... Hopefully Koi-lo can avoid the temptation to reply or retaliate to JimC's provocative and unethical post. Unethical because JimC's edited words that people posted, in a way that's offensive, insulting and provocative. Steve You best get on your knees when you address me, the great Queen of the Aquaria Empire......I know all and see all, and I post nothing thats offensive.......JimmyC posts the truth and his posts are considered the facts. Her majesty "Queen Koi-lo" -- \\\|/// ( @ @ ) -----------oOOo(_)oOOo--------------- oooO ---------( )----Oooo---------------- \ ( ( ) \_) ) / (_/ The original frugal ponder ! Koi-ahoi mates.... |
How should an aquarium smell?
"Steve" wrote in message ... JimmyC wrote: Nuff said about... Hopefully Koi-lo can avoid the temptation to reply or retaliate to JimC's provocative and unethical post. Unethical because JimC's edited words that people posted, in a way that's offensive, insulting and provocative. =============== I will not reply to them. I just hope Richard (and others) checks the headers and realizes I'm not the one posting *those messages* under the NYM "Koi-Lo." -- Koi-Lo.... frugal ponding since 1995... Aquariums since 1952 Reading Headers: http://tinyurl.com/amm9s Note: There are two Koi-Lo's on the Aquaria groups. ~~~ }((((o ~~~ }{{{{o ~~~ }(((((o ------------- Get FREE newsgroup access from http://www.cheap56k.com |
How should an aquarium smell?
On Tue, 7 Mar 2006 11:13:23 -0600, "Koi-Lo"
wrote: "Steve" wrote in message .. . JimmyC wrote: Nuff said about... Hopefully Koi-lo can avoid the temptation to reply or retaliate to JimC's provocative and unethical post. Unethical because JimC's edited words that people posted, in a way that's offensive, insulting and provocative. =============== I will not reply to them. I just hope Richard (and others) checks the headers and realizes I'm not the one posting *those messages* under the NYM "Koi-Lo." I agree. A change is in order. When you carry out your "not responding", that includes not sending the "I did not write this" message. If there should ever be a need for you to prove harrassment or whatever, you must have plenty of proof in saved messages already. And if all of our readers would take a second and check the headers when they come across a message that doesn't sound right, then we can carry on with the business of talking fish. I don't know how to check headers in the programs most people are using, but in my Agent, as well as Free Agent, depressing the "H" key brings up the headers, and pressing it again disappears them. -- Mister Gardener |
How should an aquarium smell? (Off Topic)
"Mr. Gardener" wrote in message ... On Tue, 7 Mar 2006 11:13:23 -0600, "Koi-Lo" I will not reply to them. I just hope Richard (and others) checks the headers and realizes I'm not the one posting *those messages* under the NYM "Koi-Lo." ====================== I agree. A change is in order. When you carry out your "not responding", that includes not sending the "I did not write this" message. If there should ever be a need for you to prove harrassment or whatever, you must have plenty of proof in saved messages already. I have some saved of course. But it's *ongoing* so I must make sure one here and there are "marked" as time passes. I need not mark all of them. And if all of our readers would take a second and check the headers when they come across a message that doesn't sound right, then we can carry on with the business of talking fish. Exactly, but not everyone knows how to do this or wants to bother. That's what the trolls depend on. I don't know how to check headers in the programs most people are using, but in my Agent, as well as Free Agent, depressing the "H" key brings up the headers, and pressing it again disappears them. For those using Outlook Express you RIGHT click on the message, click on PROPERTIES, then click on DETAILS. There you can see who sent the message, sometimes the ISP, the Newsserver involved, the trace, the message ID, the news-reader the person is using and other details. Some trolls carefully hide all or most of this information through proxies, remailers etc. Not all newsservers show the person's ISP. In fact many now hide that information for reasons of privacy. -- Koi-Lo.... frugal ponding since 1995... Aquariums since 1952 My Pond & Aquarium Pages: http://tinyurl.com/9do58 Note: There are two Koi-Lo's on the Aquaria groups. ~~~ }((((o ~~~ }{{{{o ~~~ }(((((o |
How should an aquarium smell? (Off Topic)
Only people or animals involved with stirring the pot and abusing various forums they do not agree with or have been told off in would worry about having to read headers as its simply not a necessary item for normal folks to have to do..............and its certainly not normal to have to use multiple news servers and all the various user names......all they do is try and cover their tracks in their abusive ploy, and try and maintain thata look of honesty and being a victim in other forums.........Yea, CArol aka Koi-Lo is nortorious at doing this......and its amazing how many suckers she can convince she is the victim that just come after her for no reason......... On Tue, 7 Mar 2006 11:56:56 -0600, "Koi-Lo" wrote: "Mr. Gardener" wrote in message m... On Tue, 7 Mar 2006 11:13:23 -0600, "Koi-Lo" I will not reply to them. I just hope Richard (and others) checks the headers and realizes I'm not the one posting *those messages* under the NYM "Koi-Lo." ====================== I agree. A change is in order. When you carry out your "not responding", that includes not sending the "I did not write this" message. If there should ever be a need for you to prove harrassment or whatever, you must have plenty of proof in saved messages already. I have some saved of course. But it's *ongoing* so I must make sure one here and there are "marked" as time passes. I need not mark all of them. And if all of our readers would take a second and check the headers when they come across a message that doesn't sound right, then we can carry on with the business of talking fish. Exactly, but not everyone knows how to do this or wants to bother. That's what the trolls depend on. I don't know how to check headers in the programs most people are using, but in my Agent, as well as Free Agent, depressing the "H" key brings up the headers, and pressing it again disappears them. For those using Outlook Express you RIGHT click on the message, click on PROPERTIES, then click on DETAILS. There you can see who sent the message, sometimes the ISP, the Newsserver involved, the trace, the message ID, the news-reader the person is using and other details. Some trolls carefully hide all or most of this information through proxies, remailers etc. Not all newsservers show the person's ISP. In fact many now hide that information for reasons of privacy. -- \\\|/// ( @ @ ) -----------oOOo(_)oOOo--------------- oooO ---------( )----Oooo---------------- \ ( ( ) \_) ) / (_/ The original frugal ponder ! Koi-ahoi mates.... |
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