Dear heisenberg
So I added the 420 premium bacteria to a fresh batch of canna nutes (tap water bubbled for a week and canna a and b) and again the slime has started to appear on the airstone and I can see the shit floating. I have ordered MYCOGROW online at fungi.com and cant wait to try it and will post results.
1)Would you agree this slime is Cyanobacteria?
ifso
2)Could it be that im trying to kill a good bacteria ?as Ive found threw extensive research that Cyanobacteria is used in lettuce as a good bacteria for root health.
3)Threw talking to my local hydroshop they seem think the water in my area is bad and have customers in my area that outsource thier water from surrounding suburbs.Would it be possible our goverment is adding this bacteria to our water? We do have a water shortage and believe our dams(domestic drinking water surplie) are being topped up from other sources.
I can't confirm totally that you are dealing with brown slime algae without seeing it personally. It certainly looks like a tenacious case. The main clue would be if your plants stopped all root production. I am surprised you didn't at least see some improvement from the 420 product. As for the slime being cyanobacteria, this is something I have read in aquarium communities and has been confirmed by one microbiologists student. Of course I can not verify his story, but he took a sample of the slime into class and the consensus was cyanobacteria, although I suspect some are dealing with golden and brown diatoms.
I will try to find the write up. The specific type of cyanobacteria he suspected did not necessarily use photosynthesis, but could also make food by chemical conversion. It did not need light although the different light it was exposed to caused different colors, while darkness caused it to be clear.
Firstly I wonder why you bubble tap water for a week? Chlorine evaporates in as little as 6 hours when aerated, and furthermore typical amounts of chlorine in tap water normally do not harm plants or even microbes. Sounds like you are making a perfect bath for slime spores by aerating it so long without bennies. Then again, I don't know your tap water.
I always use distilled water for tea making because it has a low PPM, which leaves room for the 6ppm oxygen we need for the tea.
Some cyanobacteria can indeed be beneficial in certain situations. In fact, only about 3% of all microbes are harmful, the rest are either beneficial or benign. It would seem in your case the cyanobacteria is harmful. In any case, it is not normal to see it in a hydro setup.
It is doubtful the govt is purposely putting microbes into the water. Aside from the fact the the govt is incompetent, they wouldn't have much of anything to gain. The slime only really effects DWC grows, and DWC isn't very well suited for large gardens. This would be a huge undertaking for the govt. with soil, ebb and flow, coco, ect all being immune to the payoff. This is in fact an idea I have read elsewhere on slime threads; the idea that perhaps the govt engineered this slime to specifically target cannabis plants. There is no evidence of that, and in fact it doesn't matter because the tea takes care of it regardless.
As far as I am aware, the tea has never failed to correct a water problem like yours. For most people it is a magic bullet with very quick turn around, for some it is a struggle but eventually the slime looses out to the bennies. Fungi.com is a very fast shipper so you should have your product soon. I would recommended checking to see if your hydro store has any sort of EWC. In your case, I would want to make the best tea I could. The fungi.com will give you all the bacteria and fungi you need, but some EWC, or better yet soil amendment that contains EWC, would give you nematodes and other microbes not in the powder. For most, the powder is sufficient, but in your case I would hit it with all I could.
I must run to class for now.