Can anyone define what bug this is?[Pic]

mrserv0n

Member
I cant get these things out of my rez, Ive cleaned the tank and bleached it, they come back, I put a shit ton of 33% H202, they swim in it and laugh, I dumped enough pyrithium in the rez to kill a cow. kills a few maybe but not enough to notice. I bought mosquito dunks and used 300x the recommmend does, they loved it. Then I bought some real expensive liquid drops for mosquitos,flies and gnats, One drop is supposed to treat 50+gal, I put 6 drops in my 30 gal. It did nothing. I have a few of those gnats that fly around and get stuck on the yellow stickys, I think this is there larva. They jump like little fleas and slowy seem to grow to almost a tiny thin worm. I cant seem to get any focus on this point and shoot to get closer. The plants are losing yeild from it for sure so i am pretty sure they are root eaters. From my research I assume thrips or fungas gnat, but I have tried all their known chemicals with no results


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jfart

Well-Known Member
can tell by the picture but by the sounds of it you have springtails. some say they are beneficial but i say kill them. i cut a potato in half and put it on top of the soil. a day or two later you will see thousands of them. bait them in with a potato and sprinkle de on them. diatomaceous earth.
 

jfart

Well-Known Member
rez my bad didn't thinkyour in hydro. i think you have to use de dry. still sounds like springtails. they eat organic matter and like really wet places. jump around and are fast.
 

mrserv0n

Member
Thanks, i have de in the barn i can put on my mothers. This crop too infested to get rid of but for nextt ime i wantt o have my preventative ducks in a row so i will research speingtails thanks
 
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