Brown roots

hey guys I cant tell if this is root rot or just from nutes ive changed the water twice in the past 2 days and everytime I look the roots are brown in using tecnaflora and I'm also using orca hydro

are your nutes brown?

pic 1 looks bad but the other 3 dont' seem more like nute stain.

are they slimy?

Roots naturally brown with age, I'm viewing from a mobile but to my eye they look okay

Maybe the temperature is too high?

Ya it could be temps but I was whondering so when I change the water say I put my nutes in and have 700ppm now 4 days later it's 300 ppm do you guys add more nutes or do you just add nutes when you do a water change? Like should it be at a constant certain ppm or do you just wait till the next water change

Patriots781 said:

Ya it could be temps but I was whondering so when I change the water say I put my nutes in and have 700ppm now 4 days later it's 300 ppm do you guys add more nutes or do you just add nutes when you do a water change? Like should it be at a constant certain ppm or do you just wait till the next water change

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I'm not sure of that system but I'd be correcting the ec, not correcting it is = to starving them I'd think?

Could be temp, additives, or comparing to mine looks like (humic) acid or another stain, maybe flush a day before feeding if not using peroxide + keep temps cooler. Silica blast too.

Patriots781 said:

Ya it could be temps but I was whondering so when I change the water say I put my nutes in and have 700ppm now 4 days later it's 300 ppm do you guys add more nutes or do you just add nutes when you do a water change? Like should it be at a constant certain ppm or do you just wait till the next water change

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I just add nutes when i do a water change, which is once a week. And top up res with plain ph water. Just make sure ppm doesn't go below 100 by the time you do a water change

Patriots781 said:

hey guys I cant tell if this is root rot or just from nutes ive changed the water twice in the past 2 days and everytime I look the roots are brown in using tecnaflora and I'm also using orca hydro

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Tbh it's hard to tell from pictures, you need to keep your res temps around 17 18c
If the roots are slimey or smelly, breaking off easily then it's root rot, but it could just be nute staining the roots... I'd buy some silver bullet (hydrogen peroxide) get that in there and it should sort it

It looks like root rot to me! I would flush with h202 or chlorine to kill it, make sure your water is 19c or so, and start thinking about how you want to grow, if you are using salts, going sterile may be a better option and is compatible with throwing in h202 or chlorine anytime. If you want to use benificial bacteria, you can't use chlorine or h2o2. You add the bacteria and give it time to grow and establish before it becomes effective. It will out compete any bad stuff wanting to grow in there normally.