Air Freshener

[weezawoo]

I have my tank in the same room I sleep in. I know you can't use spray ones in the same room as the tank but would I be able to use one of the smelly jelly things or the plug in ones? Obviously this still creates something in the air so was worried it might still be able to get into the tank.
Also what about candles? I quite like having candles going so do these also get into the tank?
I have a dog and she can get a bit smelly at times haha! Even worse is when my BF orders pizza, it stinks the place out

Thanks sorry its a random question!

its a good question - if you do a search on common ingrediants in plug ins, air fresheners, candle etc (sad, but I just did) you may well be very surprised some of these candles, plug ins, have ammonia, nitrItes, chlorine etc, so if they are wafting into the air and your skimmer etc is sucking them in..........

I will check it out when I get home! So really I cant use anything then? I use sprays in the main house so nothing in our part! Hate to think about smoking in the same room as a tank!!!

I best stop wearing Lynx too then.

Pretty strong stuff apparently - still awaiting those fallen angels mind....

You'll be waiting a while Might need to try 2 or 3 of them haha!

 

[TheHolding]

How rude

 

[woody88]

How rude

Chill mate!.....it was a joke! Lol

IMO this air freshener thing is far fetched.
I'd understand if you had an open topped tank and you was spraying above it but generally I can't see it causing a prob.

 

[weezawoo]

How rude

Haha forgive me and play some zombies

Woody - I was originally going to have glass sliders but was thinking about heat with the halides and now thinking open top, also as my sump is out the side of the tank anything will be going into there anyway regardless of the tank being open or not!

 

[seffieuk]

I once lost a whole tank of female bettas when my other half sprayed an aerosol in the same room as my tank

 

[weezawoo]

Gutting! I would be devastated! I think it caused a lot of problems I had with my tank as my OH was still spraying in the room as my freshwater tank, I kept having a few fish die, paras all spot on so made no sense, then saw him spray shed loads right in front of the tank There is a small gap in the top of the hood so must of seeped through! This is a while back now so everything is sprayed outside! He went to spray fly spray the other day! I nearly knocked him out to stop him

 

[TheHolding]

How rude

Chill mate!.....it was a joke! Lol

IMO this air freshener thing is far fetched.
I'd understand if you had an open topped tank and you was spraying above it but generally I can't see it causing a prob.

I never would have guessed it was a joke

 

[Donya]

I'd understand if you had an open topped tank and you was spraying above it but generally I can't see it causing a prob.

Aerosols and fume-causing things are iffy, and it's hard to know which will cause problems. The last bottle of fabreeze I picked up says not to use around birds with no explanation. It's the first bottle I've ever seen with that type of warning on it, and makes me think it was probably the case for past bottles that just didn't have the label. I certainly wouldn't want to use around tanks either as a result. Keeping sprays and stuff out of the tank room is just a precaution; it's pnot necessary for all of them, but is it worth the risk? Adding to Seffie's example, some years back I knew a family whose housekeeping nuked an amphibian tank using some kind of air freshener just vaguely within the same large, open floorplan area. I also saw my very first ever marine fish killed in a closed-top tank due to a few seconds of using a few dabs of glue accross the room -any fumes that made it into the water would've been miniscule. After that I've taken the attitude of "better safe than sorry" with these sorts of things.