slowly redoing my tank..

[Laurie LeAnn]

Last week I had an emergency clean out of my tank at 11p.m. like 2 days before it had started to smell like rotted fruit.. I removed things looking for it but came up empty handed. The next day it was worse. I took everything out! Washed everything, stirred my substrate and it smells better. Later on I went to feed them and I just about lost it...I took the stuff out washed it & the smell stuck to my plants & my fish tank decorations I used. I started to move the sand around and the smell just about made me puke! So at 11p.m. I took all the sand out of my 55 gal tank, luckily I had 4 bricks of eco earth. All my stuff I had to trash.. I went to Wal-Mart and bought me a rock formation decoration..they had a log like I had but decided to get something different. Will go to dollar tree Monday to get plants. Get my moon glow light this week to..

[lauraroberson]

Ever figure out the direct cause of the smell?

[Laurie LeAnn]

Nope, either some fruit got buried and liquefied or I found some really wet sand and it had went bad.. Then when I stirred it up it just took off and wow the smell just gross!