Terrible smell!

[AlanM]

Dead turbo snails smell awful, and that stench stays on your fingers even if you only touched the shell and washed your hands three times with soap and super hot water.

Edited January 30, 2014 by AlanM

[st9z]

Eew try rubbing with some lemon. That usually gets any seafood smells out.

 

 

 

[flooddc]

Clean your hands with grounded coffee!

[Jim Mc]

I had a nice smart ass reply all ready to go about wiping your hands somewhere that would "replace" the smell.  I feed mine to the nice hitchhiker crab that now is my garbage disposal in my sump.

[Coral Hind]

I agree the smell is terrible! A dead anemone is very close to being just as bad. I like the coffee and lemon ideas. I'll have to give them a try.

[AlanM]

I threw it in my annoying neighbors yard, by the way. Mwahahaha

[Coral Hind]

That's just sneaky mean!

[sen5241b]

I use one of these:  "New Stainless Soap Steel Eliminating Bar Kitchen Odor Smell"

Edited January 30, 2014 by sen5241b

[Origami]

I use one of these:  "New Stainless Soap Steel Eliminating Bar Kitchen Odor Smell"

Does that actually work well? I've seen these offered for years, but never looked into them.

 

Dead turbos - especially the really big ones - are awful smelling. Even just pouring the water out of the empty shell of a recently dead turbo will make you wince. My sympathies.

[sen5241b]

Does that actually work well? I've seen these offered for years, but never looked into them.

 

Dead turbos - especially the really big ones - are awful smelling. Even just pouring the water out of the empty shell of a recently dead turbo will make you wince. My sympathies.

 

It worked pretty well when my hands smelt like garlic.

[steveoutlaw]

Live turbo snails smell just as bad.  I had one get stuck inverted in my external overflow and it stunk up the whole house before I was able to figure out what it was.  The wife was really happy about that one!!

[Origami]

Live turbo snails smell just as bad.  I had one get stuck inverted in my external overflow and it stunk up the whole house before I was able to figure out what it was.  The wife was really happy about that one!!

There's been a faint but foul smell from my fish room the last two days. I came up with nothing last night. I now have something to look for.

[AlanM]

"faint but foul" is not how I'd describe it.  I'd describe it as closer to "cat barfed up a mouse behind the couch a week ago".  I had no idea that live ones smell terrible too.  Maybe my guy was still alive when I tossed him out into the cold.  His door was shut and he'd been in the same spot for 3 days after laying on his side on the sand for a day before that with his foot looking weird.

 

I'm starting to recognize the smell of acropora from pulling coral out of bags or out of the tank to glue on to the rocks.  Now I know some of why fish stores smell how they do.

[John Ford]

The skimate kicks my butt when a snail is dead in my tank. It always stinks but it's a whole new stink when I lose a turbo...

[OcalaReefGirl]

I love that you threw it in your neighbors yard! That made me smile =)