Frag Tank room Smells!

[ReeferMadness80G]

So I’ve recently set up a Frag Tank room ReeferMadness80G Frag Tank
https://www.reef2reef.com/index.php?threads/ReeferMadness80G-Frag-Tank.369251/ in my new garage conversion, and I installed a mini split ac yesterday. My problem is the smell! I opened the door this morning and it hit me, it’s not a bad smell, just like being near the ocean, we all know the smell. All my tanks are rimless, so I can’t cover them. What I’d like is solutions from people who have experienced this and then overcame it with something. I really don’t want theories on what you think will work vs the people who have actually lived it. However I appreciate all Help I can get. This room will also be a hangout for my kids and wife so while the smell doesn’t bother me too much, it may bother them. I think it is important that I also say, I’ve recently removed my skimmer and am waiting for the new one to arrive. So my tank has not been getting skimmed for a few days now.

 

[UWC]

SPS will always have a little "smell", if you sniff the water. There shouldn't be a overwhelming smell in the room. If there is, something is more then likely starting to die and can stink up a room quick. If that is not the case, running a bag of carbon in the sump for a few hours should clear it up

 

[Maggie321]

You could also install a bathroom exhaust on a timer so you can set it to run for a few hours a day. That would help to remove the smell and bring fresh air into the room.

 

[Ocean Lotion]

When my tank gets smelly I will change the carbon. Now if I could just get a little bag for my breath.

 

[LatinKing]

2 summer ago I setup a 240 gallon 8' x 4' fiberglass frag tank in my garage. The corals were mostly zoanthids and LPS (No SPS). Everything was going well until temps soar in the mid ninety's. So the temp in the garage was in the 100's. I lived in a rental and the garage was all concrete (cinder block), it was not insulated with sheet rock and no a.c.. I fortunately corals started to melt and the smell was nasty. I thought if purchasing a portable AC unit that would have kept the garage temp at 75-80 and my corals would have survived. However, installing a portable AC unit I needed a window or a hole the size for the exhaust hose which unfortunately this is a rental so I couldn't make a hole. I don't know if you had the same situation. Anyway, after all my corals die I sold my setup.

 

[ReeferMadness80G]

Check out my build thread, I added a mini split ac and insulated above the room I added in the garage. However I’m still dealing with the smell, really only seems to be bad in the morning. Idk why, the room sits closed up all day when I’m at work too and it doesn’t smell like this when I come home. It’s like something happens at night and releases an odor.