cant get rid of reservoir algea, ideas please.

[TrojanMan]

I have been combatting this problem for awhile. I have tried H2O2 and i swear i have light proofed the damn thing. The algea has changed over weeks though. At first it made the surfaces in the tub slippery. Not now. Now it grows along the hose, elbows, and the air stone. Its is light in color and looks like snot. its kinda nasty. Why the hell cant i get rid of it?

[Garden Knowm]

No light?

hmmm


ZANDOR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[jimmy5150guitars]

i have had very few probs with algea the one time i did i used about 1 teaspoon per gal in my resv for a few hours and poured a gal. of this through the pot kinda like rinse
the plant then i rinsed with plain water cleaned every thing infact changed out the air line and stone ran ph adj water for a day then clean resv again, and this ended my algea problem good luck!


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garden knowm what up






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[Zandor]

Are you sure it's alge and not some type of mold? Is it forming on the inside or the outside? Is it forming on your pot's too?

What type of hoses are you using are the clear?

There are products to kill alge in the fish store that should not hurt your plant but read the lable first.
I think you may have something else going on beside just simple alge.

[TrojanMan]

thanks for your time zandor. This stuff is forming on the outside of the lines and stones. it is not on the pots. the hoses are a semi transparent green. i will take a look at some products from my local fish store also.

jimmy_guitars, what products are you talking about? A teaspoon and a gallon of what?

[jimmy5150guitars]

hydrogen peroxide

[Garden Knowm]

"ZANDOR !!!!!!!!!"


cool, how that works huh... it reminds me of he-man..... all this cyber shit makes me think that ZANDOR is just my alter super intelliget.. other half..

jeckyl and hyde ..------ Garden Knowm and Zandor....

[TrojanMan]

Zandor, i am still having this problem. If there is something growing on the roots will the problem occur again when the water is changed and treated? is there a way to clean them? I know they are sensitive. I am at my wits end with hydro.

[Garden Knowm]

trojan man- ya know... a lot of people grow with algae... big growers... and it never affect their yield or the outcome... is it actually causing problem.. or you just don't like the aesthetic?

hope this gets worked out for you..

[Zandor]

Zandor, i am still having this problem. If there is something growing on the roots will the problem occur again when the water is changed and treated? is there a way to clean them? I know they are sensitive. I am at my wits end with hydro.
If it were showing on the air stones and the outside of the airlines I would guess it might not be alga. You could have nutrient residue or something else? Have you given any thought to that?

Are the plants showing sign of problems from the alga or what ever it is?

Do the roots have odor?

[TrojanMan]

yes the plant has problems. the roots look sick and are not growing. and yes they do have an odor. and now i am guessing this is not an algea prob, right? I really appretiate everyone's help and time.

[TrojanMan]

Ok, after some research i am pretty sure i have root rot. I wish i would have know this earlier. I thought it was algea to dieing end. I will have to scrap these plants and start this cycle over, not worth trying to clean and and keep the rootrot to a minimum. Anybody know of any way to maintain water temps? I need my water to be a little cooler.

[Garden Knowm]

you can insulate your resivor.... there are these new hydro raft systems (well not that new), that are being used in the desert.. they insulate the resivors...

there are also water chillers...

can you lower the temp of the entire room?

if you are going to scrap the plants, you may as well try to get a fish net and take all the dead matter out of your resivor and then give them a massive does of h202... and even add an airstone....


what's the worst that could happen? they'd die...


sorry about your loss.. root rot sucks!!!!!

[LOC NAR1958]

You can cut the roots just at the water level and clean out all the dead roots. On my first grow I cut roots back on one just to play and hardly had any effect on the plant. That's water level not the bottom of your netpot. I'm running drip system. Clean it out real good you might be able to save something.

[Starchild]

Colloidal Silver.

[jimmy5150guitars]

never had a prob with root rot weird my room in the summer got pretty damn hot , i have seen it in the 80-90's for days
with no probs whatsoever! maybe knowm has a good idea add more air to em
thats one thing i did i just kept adding air pumps to my resv,s seemed like to the plants the more the marrier, hell iremember using two 40-60 gal. dual outlet aqurium pumps for each 4 gal. resv. using 4 stones kinda went crazy i guess . but i ve been smokin my own for almost a year now!


good luck!

ps. dont kill your plants let em grow add 2-4 tsp of hydrogen peroxide per gal.
run for half ady day and do it again for a da or so in a row then just use water in your resv for awhile adding then pour a few gals on h2o2 treated water through your pots then throws all lines and stones away and get new ones( hydrogen peroxide disapates at the rate of one tsp. per hour fyi)

[skunkydelight]

shit, i'm having the exact same issue...it seems to make my plants seem as though they are Mg. defficient when really it is a algea problem...Yours is an algea problem and it does have to do with light and water temps...my water temps can get up to 80 if I don't monitor them and that is just asking for this shit to grow all over the place...I guess that is the first step in fixing the problem, but now I'm right in the middle of a grow, so I'm gonna try to finish them out...Looks like the plants should finish fine, they will just finish super early as a natural reaction, kinda like they are dieing...it should only affect weight with the end product...if you checkout my thread, you can see that the plants can survive fine with this stuff, but it really makes leaves die off super quickly when it gets a hold of the roots...I'm gonna flush with Hydrogen Peroxide as I've never tried this before and see what happens.
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