Sounds like both larval and adult thrips- the larvae are brown-tan and live on the low leaves of plants, where thye feed and make little silvery munch trails.
Take a that is large enough to cover the whole pot and cut a slit to the middle. Slide it over the pot around the stem, leaving plenty of air under the plate.
This keeps the larvae from dropping off the leaves into the soil to complete their life cycle. The hydro plants only have thrips because you have dirt plants in the room. They NEED soil.


well thanks for the great info stinky. but I don't see any trails. maybe I just can't see em.
so the paper plate idea really works good?
and what does this meen? This keeps the larvae from dropping off the leaves into the soil to complete their life cycle. what happends then??

and why do they need more soil?
well I'll do what ever I hafta do to get rid of all these bugs.

and also what gets rid of white flies?

thanks for UR help.