Microscopic white bugs

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Moony66669

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Hi,
I'm into the week before flush and I noticed thousands of white microscopic bugs in the resivoir/nutrient tank (4 pot Wilma)
I originally thought it to be micro worms but my curiosity got the better so I pulled out my cheap endoscope from China and proceeded to get a closer look. To my surprise they were tiny ant like creature white to clear in colour with orange eyes.
I was wondering if someone could shed some light on this.
As in, is it good or bad to have?
Are they benificial or a danger?
I am using shogun nutrients in plagron bat mix
I will attach the picture I was able to get. It was really tricky to catch them on the endoscope
They are around 1mm in length and walk on top of the water and swim under the water also.
All help would be greatly appreciated
 

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jondamon

jondamon

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An abundance of springtails can be a bad thing.

if there are thousands of them then you need to consider drying your medium out a little more.

they will be living in symbiosis with your medium.
They generally Feed on decaying matter and are a part of the composting cycle etc but I have known plants to show symptoms of other issues when numbers of springtails spiralled out of control.
 
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Moony66669

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Thank you Jondamon,
I'm going to emty my resivior tonite and get the last week of nutrients in and then flush it out for a week. Fingers crossed I suppose.
Thank you both again Gond00s and Jondamon for your advice.
 
chiefrokaho

chiefrokaho

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jondamon said:
An abundance of springtails can be a bad thing.

if there are thousands of them then you need to consider drying your medium out a little more.

they will be living in symbiosis with your medium.
They generally Feed on decaying matter and are a part of the composting cycle etc but I have known plants to show symptoms of other issues when numbers of springtails spiralled out of control.
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Can u list some of the symptoms? Thinking it's what I have.
 
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Moony66669

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Only noticed them halfway into week 8 of flower. When use the silicone additive. It has a thin fil on the surface of the water. I noticed small clusters of white speckles 0.5mm roughly. When I got my torch and looked further back in the nutrient tank, I noticed there was thousands of them on the surface and submerged in the water.
MY SOLUTION
emptied nutrient tank and half filled with nearly boiling water left it for 15 minutes. Most/majority of them were cooked so I just pumped the mass wstery springtail graveyard out refilled with fresh water and nutrients for the final week before flush.
As far as the Info I've read, they are not bad unless there is a lot of them.
They take 4 to 6 weeks to mature so I will give mine a good disinfecting and bleaching
 
chiefrokaho

chiefrokaho

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I'm doin diy subcools super soil. ALL organic. I 1st noticed mine on last run of ak49 and ww indoors, in "self-watering" ~4gal pots. When I water u can see em float around and then run like hell. Don't see em unless watering. None ON plants, no flying, not larvae. In last cpl wks of flower I started noticing in bottom of pots where 'overflow' sits alot of bugs. From what I can tell they didnt hurt plants. Well I decided to leave pots outside last cpl months of winter. Hoping to maybe freeze em out, didn't work. Brought 1 in to try out a 'bagseed' to try out. Didnt kill em(freeze em) but dont think they affected that girl either. Don't know what they are but hope only good.
 
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