Smells like somebody died

[JARRETT SHARK]

I am so use to fish smell over the years but i am getting yelled at by all my workers in my office that every time i feed pe mysis and other frozen food it smells like crap for 2-4 hrs. I am not sure if there is any way to prevent this but its getting to the point that they don't want to work. I try to feed after work but even then some people stay later then me. I am not sure if the food went bad or that i should try to shut off the canopy fans when i feed but scared of tank over heating.
Anyone else have this problem
this tank is in my office were i have cleints come and go so i have to stop doing this and show a good impresion,lol

 

[125reefer]

maybe sulfur build up escaping?

 

[stbarnabas]

I had the same problem but in my case it's only my wife so I just ignor her lol love the smell of it . Sorry to hear that you are having that issue . I m really can't say anything just tagging along good luck

 

[TRIGGERMAN]

Maybe the food did go bad or maybe you are overfeeding and there is extra floating around? I never had an issue with frozen mysis smelling except for 1 time I got disracted by the devil spawn and forgot it was defrosting in the cup came back a few hours later and I used the same description as you " It smells like death" lol

 

[JARRETT SHARK]

Maybe i stop feeding, i think its the food because it does look like it defrosted and re frooze, maybe lost power and did not realize it

 

[anthony27]

Food went bad happened to me


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[JARRETT SHARK]

You smell anthony so maybe it was you,lmao

 

[noobzy]

Shrug? I feed mysis every few days and it smells like raw seafood... "like someone died" definitely doesn't apply. Maybe it went bad.

 

[TRIGGERMAN]

lmao prob was him.. food can defrost and be re frozen. I'm sure that happens during shipment.

 

[lo7100]

You can mix the food with water or with garlic.

 

[JARRETT SHARK]

Garlic make office smell worse

 

[MIKE NY]

I never had PE mysis smell so bad that everyone in the room notices....sounds like it went bad...probably de-frosted and re-froze more than once..Ant was over the other day so I know it's not him and I wasn't over so it's not me either...LOL

 

[LongIslandAndy]

Jarrett, could it be the skimmer. When I feed PE my skimmer goes nuts for about 10 minutes and causes tons of micro bubbles. PE has a lot of protein.

 

[Lenny718]

Do you rinse your frozen food before feeding? It will def help with the smell.

 

[aznt1217]

How about pellets LOL

 

[tadashi123]

+1 pellets lol. Also, i am very conscious of "fishy" odors in my home so i run an austin air junior air cleaner in the same room as the fish display. It's a little spendy at 300 dollars but it has 6.5 lbs of carbon/zeolite to adsorbe odors. Most other filters use those charcoal sponge pads. This has an actual bed of granular carbon. It has a tiny footprint. It really is efficient and it's a godsend if you have allergies, too, as its also HEPA.

 

[tadashi123]

also if you're dont need HEPA i highly recommend the sharp plasmacluster air filter which neutralizes odors by ionization. but it's NOT like a gimmicky sharper image ionizer. this is tried and true and actually infiniti offers plasmacluster in their cars as an expensive air quality "option" in. Also spendy at about 300 . it also works great in the kitchen for cooking odors. LOL i sound like a pitchman for air filters

 

[JARRETT SHARK]

jarrett, could it be the skimmer. When i feed pe my skimmer goes nuts for about 10 minutes and causes tons of micro bubbles. Pe has a lot of protein.

my skimmer goes down when i feed? I do use pellets but no smell then. Maybe a air cleaner is not a bad idea