Urgent help black/ brown slime on roots dwc

[medidedicated]

Just a tip, idk about your water source if its ro or tap or well. I learned which a quick search can verify, the poolshock is oof I forget, calcium based? Either way if your water is high in calcium it will not fully dissolve because of that. Clorox/bleach works better for water high in calcium because its sodium based something like that.

The pool shock wouldnt work anymore when conditions were rough enough which was about 80F. The bleach performed better and even then its a dance to guess the right ppm of the bleach. I just perpetuate 5 gallon buckets just throw the pump/lid in the fresh bucket. Cant last longer than 3 days so I did that.

Cooler temps keeps them longer. They say cooler water holds more oxygen which fights the bad stuff. Alright I see you got some help now Il leave it at that.

 

[limp biffskit]

Just a tip, idk about your water source if its ro or tap or well. I learned which a quick search can verify, the poolshock is oof I forget, calcium based? Either way if your water is high in calcium it will not fully dissolve because of that. Clorox/bleach works better for water high in calcium because its sodium based something like that.

The pool shock wouldnt work anymore when conditions were rough enough which was about 80F. The bleach performed better and even then its a dance to guess the right ppm of the bleach. I just perpetuate 5 gallon buckets just throw the pump/lid in the fresh bucket. Cant last longer than 3 days so I did that.

Cooler temps keeps them longer. They say cooler water holds more oxygen which fights the bad stuff. Alright I see you got some help now Il leave it at that.

Thanks for your help and input man really appreciated! Also my tap water is great almost RO more or less.. less than 90ppm but I think shall be going down the bleach route I have my temporary tent now so that will be going up once I've finished work so I should have a much better controller environment which won't be affected by hot water pipes 6inches next to the res

 

[graying.geek]

My reservoir temps were stable at 19C and everything looking great before by as you can see the hot water pipes are right next to the box and my Mrs has been rocking the heating full blast while I've been abroad for a few days to do some work on my villa and they were 29 when I came back. I also have pool shock for my hot tub which is lucky I think I will remove the rhizotonic and go full anti septic because I think it will be far easier to control. What are you thoughts? The last thing I want is to be dealing with root rot the whole grow

I recommend antiseptic with pool shock. Calcium based is preferred over Sodium (household bleach) due to the potential toxicity of Na. Others prefer bio remediation, so your choice. Best of all would be a chiller, but cost is a factor.

 

[limp biffskit]

I recommend antiseptic with pool shock. Calcium based is preferred over Sodium (household bleach) due to the potential toxicity of Na. Others prefer bio remediation, so your choice. Best of all would be a chiller, but cost is a factor.

Thank man appreciate the help and advice i and I'm blessed to not need a chill I'm on the other end of the scale where I actually need a aquarium heater.. especially today when they're removed from the hot water pipes! So much great information given to me on this thread but my mind at ease

 

[limp biffskit]

So now I have my temporary tent in position I have room temps of 24c humidity of 65% and a the nutrient temperature of 19c I've cleaned out the reservoir with bleach washed off the roots and sterilsed and the net pots and re balanced the water ph 5.8 and a nutrient ec of 0.6 I shall keep an eye on them over the next few days. Thank you to everyone for your guidance hopefully everything has been taken care of and I can relax for the next few days

 

[limp biffskit]

Just want to say a massive thanks to every one who offered me advice! You quite literally saved my ass! I used h2o2 to kill all the bacteria on the root system I bleached the containers, changed the air lines to black and changed the air stones which had massively slowed things down but after every couple of days I have still had problems due to being in experienced and nieve even with a totally sterile reservoir. However I had found that all the net pots had been leaking light in to the reservoir which I'm am pretty sure has been the source of the problem and without your help with sanitizing the roots I would have been starting again with all the same issues time after time. But thankfully with you help I have bought precious time and removed the pressure of loosing my first grow. I am now back on track, light leak free, with beautiful white roots (plants have taken a hit obviously) but my plants are finally recovering from a situation that was spiralling out of control thank you so much for your help and advice