Water smells like rotten eggs

Hi guys

My vegging room is looking very sad. All the plants look like they are dying. Most leaves get brow, crisp and fall off so plants look naked with only a few leaves on each.
1: Ph value is good
2: Temperature is 25c (it was 30 before i put it down a week ago)
3: Growing in Leca nuts in an ebb & flow

Water smells like rotten eggs so last week i added hydrogeneperoxide.

So plants are still not showing signs of healing and water still smells even though not as bad as last week.

Do i need to change the water or can i heal it ?
What's my problem? - mother plants are dying and i have no plants to put into flower as growth has completely stalled.

Please help me!

change it......

Here's the answer from google as to why the water smells like bad eggs as for your plants I'd get them on some bottle water for a bit


If the problem just recently started, you can chlorinate the water heater to get rid of the smell. The smell actually occurs because of sulfur reducing bacteria in the water, and the bleach will immediately solve the problem. If you have a well, changing water tables can have an effect on bacteria content.

To chlorinate your water heater, turn the gas or power off.
Do not turn the gas or power on until you have completed the entire process.
Drain the water heater.
Pour one quart of chlorine bleach into the heater (any brand will do)
Let the bleach sit in the water heater for one hour.
After the bleach has been in the heater for an hour, run each hot water faucet until you can smell bleach. Doing this one at a time is the most effective.
After running each faucet, including the hot water side of the clothes washer (start a load on hot cycle until you can smell bleach, even though the water won't be hot), drain the heater again.
Fill the heater, run each faucet until the bleach odor is minimal. It will take a couple of days for the smell to be completely gone, but it will not be enough to worry.
Turn the heater back on.


If the problem started shortly after having a new water heater installed, a different anode rod may be the solution. Changing the anode if the heater has been for a few years is not going to fix the problem.

Many manufacturers use aluminum or magnesium anode rods. If you check with Lowes, they carry an anode rod made of aluminum, zinc and tin. This anode is less reactive than anodes made of just one metal, and are less likely to be affected by sulfur reducing bacteria.

If the problem persists after chlorination, or putting in a different anode rod, and you are on a well, you may need to chlorinate your well.
Again, the important thing to remember is that the smell is cause by harmless bacterial. It does smell bad, but it is not a health hazard.

If you call the phone number on your water heater, the manufacturer should be able to provide a procedure to you for chlorinating your water heater.
Source(s):

I am a technical advisor for a water heater manufacturing company.

curious, did you mean sulfur-producing bacteria, or sulfur-reducing bacteria?

Thanks for the advise guys. I am currently using rain water, so water quality is pretty high from the start.
I read that on Google as well, but think the answer is as Mygirl's advice suggests. Change will be made imediately.
Thank you so much.

So after changing water should i add hydrogeneperoxide to heal the roots of the plants or will that problem correct itself?

when it comes to plants, 'healing' is a very loose term...

in my experience so far, there is NO healing...damage to leaves, roots, and what not, it's a permanent kind of thing.
nothing can fix existing damage...the plant can however, recover by growing NEW replacement parts
this translates into a delay in the time tables as the plant is not experiencing ideal conditions and must use resources to grow these


some may say there will be a reduced yield because of it...but i'm not one of them....yet...
take with a huge grain of salt....i'm a newb and prone to error

Indicator said:

curious, did you mean sulfur-producing bacteria, or sulfur-reducing bacteria?

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[FONT=Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif]Sulfate-reducing bacteria which convert naturally occurring sulfate and other sulfur compounds to hydrogen sulfide gas.


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So - did a water change now and adjusted. So my question is - do i need to do anything else or just wait and see?

Thanks, that explains it well.

Your problem is organic nutrients.......had the same problem consistently, until i switched to synthetic nutes

most organic nutes are compost which is code name for shit

kush groove said:

Your problem is organic nutrients.......had the same problem consistently, until i switched to synthetic nutes

most organic nutes are compost which is code name for shit

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I use GHE none organic. Water change fixed my problem - plants are getting happier now. Think my problem was a too high temperature about 30C - now i turned this down to 22C instead - seems to work much better ;O)