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SigPiPup
08-08-2007, 8:27 PM
Just thought I'd share a recent bizarre discovery.
I went to clean out my skimmer cup just now and for some reason I decided to smell it first. Weird, I know. I smell everything. Anyways, I was expecting this horrid, putrid smell. Instead, it smelled alot like cologne. Not any particular cologne and not anything I wear, but it smelled oddly pleasant.
Don't be surprised if you see a bottle at your local fragrance department.:)
SigPiPup
08-08-2007, 8:54 PM
Lol. Weird, I know. I'd mail you a sample but I'm pretty sure it wouldn't smell as good as it does now.
joander123
08-08-2007, 9:08 PM
lolll maybe there was something else in the air that made its way to your nose.....
SigPiPup
08-08-2007, 9:33 PM
lol. I don't think so.
Slappy*McFish
08-08-2007, 9:53 PM
lol....my skimmate smells like a cabbage fart.
ricsreef
08-08-2007, 10:21 PM
Never heard of skimmate smelling good,lol,but different people have different taste when it comes to smell.
clown-lover
08-08-2007, 10:54 PM
lol....my skimmate smells like a cabbage fart.
Ditto.. Its a cross between that phyto I feed and the garbage dump.. nasty.. My cat runs away when I'm cleaning the skimmer cup..
SigPiPup
08-08-2007, 11:42 PM
That is exactly what I was expecting. When I ran the tank a decade ago I remember how bad it used to be. Now it's weird. I'm sure that once I get some livestock in there things will change, but for now....skimmate aftershave anyone? Lol.
I had my fiance smell it too, just to make sure I wasn't crazy. She agreed that it did smell like cologne.
Well apparently they make the world's most expensive perfumes using Whale puke (or something like that), so it's not that farfetched:)
Riverserver
08-09-2007, 10:10 AM
I don't see how skimmate can smell good, I mean seriously, its decomposing matter lol.
Well apparently they make the world's most expensive perfumes using Whale puke (or something like that), so it's not that farfetched:)
It's not whale puke its ambergris which is a lining in the intestines of sperm whales.
rwilliams254
08-09-2007, 10:59 AM
What kind of weir arsed cologne are you putting on?
joander123
08-09-2007, 12:36 PM
lolll good question rw good question
Slappy*McFish
08-09-2007, 1:28 PM
Nothing like some 'Moby ****'s Butt Juice' Cologne to get the ladies. ;)
SigPiPup
08-09-2007, 2:02 PM
I'll check it again today.
If it still smells good, I'll mail samples out. Lol...any takers?
Riverserver
08-09-2007, 4:14 PM
No thanks, I have enough skimmate as it is.
Have you recently added anything to your water? Anything at all?
I'll check it again today.
If it still smells good, I'll mail samples out. Lol...any takers?
You're not drinking this stuff by any chance are you? :)
clown-lover
08-09-2007, 6:49 PM
He's probably smuggling it to work in his coffee mug during the day.. ;)
SigPiPup
08-10-2007, 11:12 AM
No thanks, I have enough skimmate as it is.
Have you recently added anything to your water? Anything at all?
I haven't added anything to the water at all. Maybe there is something in the air. The tank is in the kitchen afterall. I do have an air freshener in the kitchen but the skimmate smells nothing like that.
I haven't used any detergents to clean anything involved with the tank either.
Oh well. All test check out and the 4 Astreas and the million stomatella snails I have in there haven't died.
SigPiPup
08-10-2007, 11:19 AM
You're not drinking this stuff by any chance are you? :)
He's probably smuggling it to work in his coffee mug during the day.. ;)
Didn't look appetizing enough to drink. The mere thought of it though is making me gag. :barf: