Heisenberg
Well-Known Member
Well there was a report by richierich, the father of slime killing and pioneer of tea. As I remember, He said he shut down his grow for three months and ran high amounts of ozone in his room. This should have completely sterilized the room. When he set back up, he ran his water through an RO filter into a barrel which he treated with h202 and a UV light. He used DM zone in his res at twice the highest dose, and still got slimed. It seems this stuff is in the air, especially during late summer weeks.So what are your thoughts on this?
Perhaps tap water (even good areas, i live in Lake Tahoe)(that all have issues with controling cyanobacteria) one would assume if its true that if it can colonize in water alone, it is very very present straight out of the tap. When we change our res water (the benny water that has been starving the slime infested water and reducing those numbers), the new water possibly takes away that balance because there is more slime available to multiply, and the tea cant take hold yet?
As for the res change, I am thinking along the same lines as you. When a beneficial colony has not yet become dominate, when the balance is still at it's tipping point, changing the res throws it all into chaos. The slime can just immediately stat growing again, while the bennies need a bit to recover. If the slime gets an edge it wins. I think this is only an issue in situations where there is little or no root mass in the water. Changing the res on my older plants has never caused any problems.