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Just got a second bottle of melafix from ebay, the first bottle i used was a smaller more expencive bottle from the lfs. This smells like that stuff you rub on you chest to help you breath mabie in sports or people who have trouble breating i think it's vix or something. (do you know what i mean?)

The first bottle which has helped my fish did not smell like this what should i do?
Does anybody have any at the moment and could smell it to see if this is right?

It should smell a little like tea tree oil, I always thought it smelt wierd too

Yeah i just found a thread by somebody on google and they all saying it smells like vicks so mabie the local pet shop are selling something else or mabie just water. It seems to have helped but it had no smell.

Just had to smell my bottle, it is just like vick's vapour rub

it makes a good room deodorizer

Love the smell!

+1

I'm always take a sniff be fore I use it

I think you got ripped off on that first bottle. Melafix has a very distinct and powerful tea tree oil scent.

kcartwright856 wrote:I think you got ripped off on that first bottle. Melafix has a very distinct and powerful tea tree oil scent.

Yeah i was thinking that too and i will tell the guy if i go in the shop again. The fin rot cleared up though so i don't know what it was. Just i would never have not smelt it and i dosed the tank about 10 times.

Do you maybe have any sinus cold or allergy problems when you were using the first bottle? I remember last year, around Thanksgiving time I was using melafix and couldn't smell it at all because my cold was so bad.