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.
 
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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