Worst smells in the hobby

[bluemon]

What are your guys's least favorite smells you have smelled in the hobby?

I have a strong stomach, and skimmates don't smell bad at all to me (it just makes me happy the skimmer is doing the work), but DEAD SNAILS are the WORST.

It's not a particular snail either. I have smelled trochus, nassarius, vermetid snails. They all have that putrid funk that you cannot forget.

 

[Sharkbait19]

At first I thought nothing could top a dead snail. Then I had to deal with my 26-head torch coral when it died from brown jelly disease….

 

[Rmckoy]

Dead turbo snails that’s roughly the size of crab apples . Instant vomit .

 

[Daniel@R2R Verified Admin]

Skimmer... definitely the skimmer

 

[doubleshot00]

Wow i guess i cant smell like you guys. I've had several dead turbos and never noticed the smell. Used filters socks marinating in the garage is up there.

 

[330Bob]

The worst is when your bio-pellet reactors output gets clogged and it it recirculates oxygen free water for a few days. You get the swamp/sewer smell of hydrogen sulfide gas and its nasty.

 

[reefadam]

Frozen food left out. At my old LFS someone left a pack of rods out that ended up falling behind behind the freezer that took us days to Locate.

 

[Joj]

Leftover nori stuck inside the nori clip where the fishes cant get to it, smells pretty bad after 2-3 days too. I don’t dare feed that back to the sw fishes but will give them to my fw fishes and neocaridina shrimps though (no issue so far).

 

[Cell]

Dead snails reign supreme in this category. There is just no comparison.

 

[blecki]

That little bit of rotting nori stuck in the clip.

 

[fish farmer]

Raw uncured Fiji live rock after a day or two soak...gotta sniff test to see if that sponge made the trip.

 

[itelshot]

What are your guys's least favorite smells you have smelled in the hobby?

I have a strong stomach, and skimmates don't smell bad at all to me (it just makes me happy the skimmer is doing the work), but DEAD SNAILS are the WORST.

It's not a particular snail either. I have smelled trochus, nassarius, vermetid snails. They all have that putrid funk that you cannot forget.

I haven't got a dead snails yet as peaple write here, but a couple years ago i was trying to clean rapane shell after eating it, it was unsuccessful cause it was a small part deep inside. SOOOOOOO i can agree with people that said about dead snails... But skimmate and socks are cool)

 

[((FORDTECH))]

The cup of frozen food that I left dethawing on the counter hidden by other things rotting for 3 days that I could not find

 

[Rubymoon286]

Brown jelly, dead snail, and my skimate after I do yellow sno or pns bacteria. It takes the usual "fart juice" (as my partner calls it) and elevates it to the point that even my dogs run outside retching.

 

[Seansea]

Leftover nori stuck inside the nori clip where the fishes cant get to it, smells pretty bad after 2-3 days too. I don’t dare feed that back to the sw fishes but will give them to my fw fishes and neocaridina shrimps though (no issue so far).

Weird something so small can smell so bad.

Cleaned out my algae scrubber and left it garbage can in kitchen. Whole house was rancid. Ole lady almost threw me out the house

 

[LexiconDevil]

The worst smell I’ve encountered thus far is after I tore down my tank and left some sand in a sealed bucket for a day or two. Perhaps one of the worst smells I’ve ever encountered period.

 

[wmatt140]

Smells are great! That's how I got a fish room in the new house. Wife said no more fish stuff in the kitchen

 

[MoshJosh]

Snail half rotten in its shell. . .

 

[OrchidMiss]

Here's something strangely specific.
I soak my filter socks in bleach water after I've rinsed out any large debris and scrubbed it a bit by hand under hot water.
I will reuse this bleach water twice, socks are subsequently cleaned and rinsed thoroughly.
The dead/decaying algae in the bleach water smells exactly like halitosis.

 

[SnazzyUrchin792]

Snails, skimmate, socks, none of that bothers me. What gets me is the smell of Seachem Safe.

 

[BrokenReefer]

My sons diapers.