Cyanobacteria "clear slime" scoffs at EWC Tea

ShirkGoldbrick

Active Member
OK so after reading what everyone said I still got the slime while using EWC tea.

Or I think it's the slime, someone said somewhere as I recall that it could be a colony of myco that looks similar? IDK.

Here is the slime on the ends of one of my clones.
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Here is the reservoir with EWC tea
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I have the sump pump half submerged to try and reduce heat. I also have it 15 on 15 off. I had to use such a large pump because my tray is 4' off the ground.

My unhappy tray
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So, I added an ass load of bleach and the res went clear
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I then changed the res and added pondzyme to eat the dead.

I will be running physan 20 to try and kill the rest of the buggers and see if I can salvage what I still have.

A question, does anyone know if high pressure sprayers kill cyanobacteria? Once cloned I'll be putting them in a diy aero setup that waters via misters at 180psi. I would hope if any gets in my res that it would be obliterated by the high pressure misters.
 

grasscropper

Well-Known Member
Cynobacteria is "red slime" algae. Commonly found in marine aquariums due to overfeeding. I didn't know you could get in reservoirs of fresh water.
 
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