Slime treatment

I have a very bad problem with slime. Temps are under 66, no light leak, a enourmous air pump, and the slime is taking over everything. I ve been treating with 2ml/gal of H2O2, with no sucess. Check out the pictures. High dosages of SM-90 and H2O2 combined, arent working.

Need to run that under plain water and get as much slime off the roots as you can, then clean and change the res and run bennies.

What are you running for nutes? Make sure you aren't using nutes or additives that contain organics... this is critical.

I agree, wash it out and personally I would get that hydroton out of there. Then run great white or pondzyme, the pz is available from landscape shops that have a pond section.

Im running no organics. Im using GH maxi grow powder. I put some hygrozime, and things got worse, even thought I heard this is a good product. I bought some orca now. Im brewing for a day, Orca, compost soil and humus in a woman sock, and molasses for two days. I will try this bennies.
Im almost giving up hydro, and going back to perlite and sunshine. Tired of fighting this slime......

Woo that looks familiar! I got shit air or something because I always get slimed regardless of water type used. I clean everything twice and blah blah still get slime. It sucks, but the only real recourse is to brew bennie tea and use them as soon as the roots hit the res. Doing this before the slime appears in the first place seems to be the only way I can keep it at bay.

Before teas I tried everything commonly used to no avail, and ended up just rinsing the roots and changing my res every 3 fucking days. A ton of wasted nutes later the root ball was big enough to fight off the slime by its self. Some of us are just cursed with slime. It sucks.

Time for the bleaaaach! Start with two drops a gallon.

Hygrozyme is bad shit man.... known to trigger slime blooms in DWC. Also stay away from AN bennies for the same reason. SS recommended some good bennies.

what are bennies?

CEE DUB said:

what are bennies?

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Beneficial bacteria. They eat the bad shit and make it easier for roots to uptake elements.

Or just go sterile and never worry about that shit again lol. Bleach is much safer and better than h202 I understand some are scared but do some research. I haven't had root rot or slime in years. And have res temps around 72. Just beautiful white roots. 3 dollars is all it takes if you doubt it throw one in a bubble bucket and see for your self. Greenhouses use it in their systems. Take a trip to your greenhouse and ask what they use. Bet they don't use any of this crap marketers sell us pot heads! PS I run maxi powder only Lucas formula.keep it simple.https://www.rollitup.org/hydroponics-aeroponics/327967-bleach-instead-h2o2.html
Fatman nights been a jerk but he's a very smart man.

Yeah bleach will help you.
As soon as I started washing my buckets with hot bleach between nute changes algea and slime disappeared.

I also second the pondzyme. Saved my grow.

So after you have washed your roots off and cleaned your buckets with hot bleach.
Add pondzyme to your res to stop any bad shit from starting to grow
Good luck

Ps when I thought I didn't have any light leaks I did. Make sure 100 percent of no light leaks.
Looking at your container looks like light would easily get through the blue tub.

Get some aluminum insulation tape and cover the whole res.

http://www.fungi.com/product-detail/product/mycogrow-soluble-1-oz.html

This is what I use for bennies. Good stuff for cheap. Makes an awesome tea.

+3 on running bennies... or +4 or 5 I dont know where I am in line. Check out the hiesenberg tea thread in the hydro forum. I just ran into the same thing for the first time after a few years of hydro. No light leaks. Water temp was perfect..... didnt matter brown slime algea or cyanobacteria doesnt care how perfect your conditions are.
I tried sterilizing and it did kill it off.... for a couple days then it came back and my roots were not a fan of the h202 treatments.
Used hiesenburgs and within three days new roots were growing.
One tip that i didnt know and flipped out about. If the roots are to far gone they wont get better. Instead new roots pop out. I ended up cutting off the whole rootball on em. Scary. But like i said new roots popped out and they recovered faster than i thought possible.

I2icho said:

Yeah bleach will help you.
As soon as I started washing my buckets with hot bleach between nute changes algea and slime disappeared.

I also second the pondzyme. Saved my grow.

So after you have washed your roots off and cleaned your buckets with hot bleach.
Add pondzyme to your res to stop any bad shit from starting to grow
Good luck

Ps when I thought I didn't have any light leaks I did. Make sure 100 percent of no light leaks.
Looking at your container looks like light would easily get through the blue tub.

Get some aluminum insulation tape and cover the whole res.

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Pondzyme does nothing to kill cyanobacteria...NOTHING!
Like natasdaisy said ,use the tea and you wont be dissapointed. I went through everything he went through even down to cutting of the whole rootball. Made some tea and within 35hrs i saw amazing results. Havent looked back since.

P.s. if your using any recirculating system cut the initial inoculation to half dose, and to maintain a population i use 1-3ml of tea per gallon. I have even gone 2wks without using the tea on mature flowering plants that are 3 to 4 wks in.