Stop Bath rotten egg smell

[MattKing]

Matt King, you're an OK dude. Each to his own. To me, a darkroom is sights and smells, and sometimes taste, like developer on your fingers. It's a magic that a digital camera, a computer, and an inkjet printer can't begin to compete with. When I get to heaven and the head man is looking for photography and radio voluteers, I'll run to the signup desk. They took my Kodachrome away, but not my stop bath. Citric acid is for lemonade.

Hey, after 50+ years in darkrooms, I'm not going to disagree about the environment that appeals to you.
The information attached to this photo I uploaded a few years ago to the gallery might appeal to you - I hope that as a non-subscriber you can access it: https://www.photrio.com/forum/media/portal-of-a-different-sort.14286/
No radio experience here, but even though it had been nearly 70 years since my Dad had last used it (during and immediately after WWII), right up to when he died he could still read (and probably send) Morse code.

 

[ericdan]

Matt King, you're an OK dude. Each to his own. To me, a darkroom is sights and smells, and sometimes taste, like developer on your fingers. It's a magic that a digital camera, a computer, and an inkjet printer can't begin to compete with. When I get to heaven and the head man is looking for photography and radio voluteers, I'll run to the signup desk. They took my Kodachrome away, but not my stop bath. Citric acid is for lemonade.

this is so beautiful it almost made me cry.
happy friday.

 

[RalphLambrecht]

My Adox Citric Acid stop bath smelled really strong of rotten eggs yesterday.
This was a relatively fresh mix. Ran at lost ten 5x7 through.
I’ve never had that problem before with Adox or any other stop bath.
Dumped the mix and washed tray and bottle and mixed up a fresh one. The smell is gone now even after two nights of running prints through.

What could’ve caused this smell?
Decontamination?
I use distilled water for chemicals that I reuse. I also tone in Selenium and use HCA.

Did you ever use the trays or bottles for fixer too?