The title of this thread describes what I found in my res and sliming up my roots tonight. I have no idea what happened. Everything looked normal this morning, but I came home tonight and there were huge worms of brown snot like slime floating around in the bins were the roots are. I have noticed somewhat of a film on the bottom of the bins since, as some of you may know, my roots are constantly sitting in a 3/4" of water (bad, I know), but this was almost like a slimy worm or something; like a thick snot I could pick up with my hands.

I immediately took the lid of the bin containing the plants and placed it over a different bin while I took the entire system apart and cleaned all the tubing and bins while my partner scrubbed the pump, air stones, and heater. There was some snot stuff stuck on some of the roots, so I took the lids and hosed the roots down with cool water. Once I got all the crap off, the roots didn't appear to be discolored or damaged, so that is a plus. I then changed the res strictly to pHed water and Hydroguard only. The slime appears to be gone, for now....

My question is, what was this crap? I am guessing the culprit is bad nutes, as my nutes are organic and I got them second hand and there is no date on them. Anyone here ever had anything like this happen?
dejayou30 Reviewed by dejayou30 on . Brown Snot Sludge The title of this thread describes what I found in my res and sliming up my roots tonight. I have no idea what happened. Everything looked normal this morning, but I came home tonight and there were huge worms of brown snot like slime floating around in the bins were the roots are. I have noticed somewhat of a film on the bottom of the bins since, as some of you may know, my roots are constantly sitting in a 3/4" of water (bad, I know), but this was almost like a slimy worm or something; Rating: 5