Smelly water?

[fishtk75]

Randy and all,
In tank 120. started two month ago.
Water smells bad as skimmer water what is that telling me?
What chemistry is working here in the 120?
The 75 tank has no smelly water but the 120 is smelly.
75 and 120 are not hooked together.
Change water every two week 25%
skimmer fills cup every day or two days same water. dose the same. Feed the same food and amount cut back last month green algae growing in 120.

Nitrate = 0
Nirtrite = 0
Alk = 3.2 megl
ammonia =0
phos = 0
Cal = 450 ppm

[Randy Holmes-Farley]

All such smells are organics getting out of the water. Any corals reaching the surface?

Do you use carbon? Ozone?

[fishtk75]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9219983#post9219983 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Randy Holmes-Farley
All such smells are organics getting out of the water. Any corals reaching the surface?

Do you use carbon? Ozone?

I use and just replaced two cups of carbon I have in bags in sump.
I do not use ozone.
Do not have any corals that big to reach the surface.

[Randy Holmes-Farley]

Maybe replace the carbon, and make sure the water is flowing through it well. :)

[fishtk75]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9221998#post9221998 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Randy Holmes-Farley
Maybe replace the carbon, and make sure the water is flowing through it well. :)

Randy,
I have a second PhosBan Reactor and hooked it up and filled with carbon to make water flow through it
I am not using bags to see if this works better.
I saw others using PhosBan Reactor it for carbon or diy pvc pipe reactor also to push water through the media.
thank you for the thinking about flow through would not how thought of this.

[Randy Holmes-Farley]

Sounds good.

Let us know if it helps. :)

[fishtk75]

Found the problem what is making water smell.
As all of you who said that there is dead water spot some where there was a small tube that I had holding a sump baffle.
It had smelly dead water in it putting out a little at a time making the whole tank smell.

[Randy Holmes-Farley]

OK, hopefully the smell will disappear now. :)

[fishtk75]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9295751#post9295751 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Randy Holmes-Farley
OK, hopefully the smell will disappear now. :)

Randy,
Yes all gone. Something that small amount of water makes all that smell.

[Randy Holmes-Farley]

Good to hear. :)

Happy reefing!