Have you ever been afraid fo the aquarium water?

[Abercrombie6202]

Yes, very odd question isn't it?

I have a 2.5 gallon betta tank with a couple female bettas and one male betta, well a fish died probably a week ago or longer and i didn't notice, it's body was torn up and disinigrated by the filter and then the tnak was covered by algae all in a week. This morning i was very bored and dicided to clean the misserable tank, cuz it started to scare me LOL, well i went near the tnak took the top off and i almost threw up it smelled horrbile, worse than rotten eggs, puke, sewers, swamps, feces, everything it was horrbile!! So i dumped aLl the wqater out cleaned the gravel, cleaned the snails, the filter everything, it was really bad!!

 

[geKo]

eww thats nasty lol

 

[Franky099]

I had a turtle once when I was a kid......it didnt matter if you changed the water twice a day.....it smelled horrible! No words to explain it!

 

[Paul]

The tank will have to cycle all over again though. the smell was proably from decaying organic matter in the tank. I would have done a sizeable water change, before I nuked the tank.