POLL: What was the nastiest smell from your reef??

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[Anonymous]

I'll let you know in a week when the crew is done scrubbing every item in our entire house...

 

[MattM]

Ball Sponge. Died and floated to the top of the tank overnight. Next day we had to open all the doors of the building to try to make it so customers could come into the store.

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by JennM:
<STRONG>I've not had the pleasure of catching a whiff of dead anemone, but I've heard that's seriously nasty too.</STRONG><HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Extremely nasty, but.... We had a dead anemone, and when I went to siphon it out, I got some in my mouth.

There aren't enough Pepsi's in the world to rinse that ^&%$ out!

 

[DK]

I gotta go for the snail - dead turbos are quite aromatic, and a lost shipment of rock with lots of sponge growth is right up there( it has to be lost for at least 5 days).

 

[ophiuroid]

I've got to give my vote for large, long dead anemones...so far gone it makes them difficult to pick up without them turning to slime. Bad, bad, bad...but thankfully haven't sucked any into my mouth!!! That would've turned my stomach immediately. Dead giant clams aren't too nice either. It seems anything that is particularly slimy/mushy in life, such as corals, anemones, and mollusks are just horrid when they die. Just unmistakable.

In my research, I've come across specimens preserved in gallon jars of alcohol (20-30years ago) that still started to rot (meaty things, improperly preserved). There was actual mold growing on the surface of the alcohol. There were boxes and boxes and you could just smell there was a bad one in there somewhere, and then you would find the box. Oh man.

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[Chris Lucia]

Not sure why this thread is kicking ***, If you can't beat em, join 'em. Fresh Ricordea rock, shipped out of water in the summer time with wads of spoogy dead chicken liver sponge hanging off the rocks. Umm Umm Good.
2 year old Mark Weiss products fermenting on the shelves in their deformed, contorted bottles. Love that smell as you open the door to the shop the day after unpacking a load of fresh, uncured rock. (the same days we look forward to cleaning the skimmers).
Tonga Mushrooms -- Can smell 'em right through the box!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[kaotica]

i agree with a lot about skimmate, and curing LR and LS, but a dead rotting turbo? WOW! I smelled 2 for the first time this past weekend and the first thing that came to mind was this thread! my new answer is definitely dead turbos!!

 

[wasabi]

my long tenacle got stuck in the powerhead. i tried to save it no luck. i scooped out the rotten mass with my hands. the smell was the worst than road kill.

 

[polyp]

A funny funk like fungus festering ferociously in the fetid carpet
under the fuggin' fish tank.

Say that 5 times fast.

...ahhhh, nevermind.

 

[Grandczar]

I would say a 5 day old dead sebae that retreated under the rocks from a very aggressive clarkii. I couldn't get to it. Finally said screw it and gravel vacumm'd it up... Damn near passed out when I got it out of the water.

Couldnt stand the smell threw the whole anemone/gravel vac in OUTSIDE trashcan.

Thats what I get for trying to keep something I didn't know much about at the time!

 

[golfish]

Xenia is second to the burnt up Rio 2500. You could still smell the Rio a week after the tank\stand\everything was out of the house.

 

[Russ1]

Frozen Mysis shrimp inadvertently over thawed in the microwave. Won't do that again, fish just have to wait!

 

[IrvingVet]

7 inch dead naso-tang that was put in the trash on Tuesday night (trashmen come on Tuesday morning) when I went to take out the trash on Thursday night for pickup Friday morning...

 

[EnglishReefer]

During a tank swap I had all my coral/fish in a holding tank while I sorted out their new home - sometime after I left for work that day a sea apple climbed up a powerhead nuking itself (also triggering a second nuke from a black cuke) and everything else in the tank - I came home 8 hours later after work and found a tank full of stinking rotting livestock, the only thing that was anygood was the LR and a small hairy crab I found trying to escape the tank

Second to that is skimmate produced by my new skimmer or the sulfide smell sometimes found when digging out a large sandbed.

 

[Modo]

I think mine might have to be my own skin that stuck to the MH bulb after I accidently touched it and burnt into a black crusty spot.

 

[Phishmon]

me when i get done cleaning it ;p

actually i've had some pretty nasty stuff come out of tanks over the years

 

[Anonymous]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by MattM:
<STRONG>Extremely nasty, but.... We had a dead anemone, and when I went to siphon it out, I got some in my mouth.

There aren't enough Pepsi's in the world to rinse that ^&%$ out!</STRONG><HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

My God Matt!!! Ughhh!!!

I guess I won't complain about the way dead snails stink.

 

[BradB]

dead abalone

 

[Diane]

Turbo snails are pretty nasty. However my dead cowry snail was pretty gross...I don't think that I will forget all of that slime for a long time.

Diane

 

[davelin315]

Leopard shark that jumped out of my pond (okay, not a reef, but it could've been if I had coral and inverts in it

) and got wedged in between the pond and it's enclosure without me knowing it was there. It smelled for MONTHS! And we didn't have air conditioning, and I lived in the 3rd floor of our apartment/house, where all the heat travelled to. Finally solved the problem by pouring 3 or 4 cans of carpet fresh deodorizer into where I thought it was, but then again, maybe it finally dried up completely. When I finally moved the pond, I found it, looked like one of those sea horses that they dry out, except he was still a bit rank.

That, and many years ago, my dad tried to boil a big conch he found in Cancun to get it out of the shell. Where's the puky face when you need it?