hydro gods I call on thee, looking for some helpful input

Ok, so until recently I've been playing solely in the dirt, which has worked out fairly well. However I recently began playing with a few bubble buckets, and have caught a glimpse of the awesome growth that can come from it. Unfortunately it was short lived, I got hit with the clear/white snot/slime of doom. Ive been reading and reading about this stuff, and from what I've gathered it seems that if you have it, there's not really a tried and true method of dealing with it or eliminating it. The way I see it in a nutshell is you can deal with it one of two ways. Either sterilizing all of your equipment, starting with new clones, and keeping a steady H2O2 level and crossing your fingers, OR trying to fight fire with fire and brewing up a tea of bennies to add to the res every few days. The bacteria that causes this crap is not from anything i add to my mix, ive just been goin at it with the lucas formula. It comes right from my tap, if i leave a bucket of water out overnight, it has a film of this stuff all over the inside of the bucket, and along the surface of the water by morning. This will happen regardless of light, temperature or aeration. (I've tested to see if i can slow/stop it from occurring in different environments)

So now comes my question, should I throw out the idea of going hydro until I re-locate to a place with better water?
I was about to purchase an R/O system until reading that it may not solve the problem, or even make it worse.

Would this slime still give me trouble in an e&f system or nft?

I entertained the idea of going with the bennies, but i feel like i read everywhere that its just a nightmare to try and deal with anything but chemicals in a dwc. Also, i feel like running bennies would leave me walking a fine line between thriving bennies and thriving slime, which with one wrong move could leave me without a crop, which wouldnt be worth it to me.

Im trying to steer away from soil because its difficult for me to aquire and dispose of where I live, but if theres no way around this stuff idk what other options i have.

Ive been pulling my hair out day and night trying to come up with a solution to this snafu, I appreciate any helpful info.

* oh, i also saw one post on highgrade seeds website, where they recommend using "no damp" to get rid of it? Only place i read that so im pretty apprehensive to go for it.

Thanks!

 

I dont mean to be rude at all T51k but its not like that, its not an algea nor does it photosynthesize. Like I said in the post, ive left buckets of plain tap water in the dark, ( both warm and cold) and the stuff still grows. Its a bacteria, not a plant at all, the light makes no difference.
Thanks anyway though

 

hah, thanks WWM im hoping for some help from you vets around here, this stuff is like the houdini of slime. I need to get a little more baked and relax before i start pullin bits of this slime off my roots to try and torture it LOL

 

Ive been running 5ml/gal of 29% H2O2 with every res change and have been adding 5ml more every 3 days. Ive read and seen where people have tried upping their h2o2 dose until it burnt their ladies, with still no luck destroying the slime. Ive still been running it at the normal dose just as a preventative measure. Ive also given aquashield from botanicare a try, without any spectacular results.

I took fresh clones and put them in a res with distilled water i bought from the store, im going to see if i can keep it away and not let it be introduced at all, but im afraid that wont be possible. Also it would be too costly and a PITA to be lugging 20 gals of water a week for just a few plants that are for my own consumption, just wanted to see if i could make it work with well established plants.

Ill probably pick up an R/O system anyway, its not all that huge of an investment.

I just want to make sure i can keep this stuff at bay before putting all my eggs in that basket

Heres the link to the thread on using the bennies http://www.rollitup.org/dwc-bubbleponics/361430-how-breed-your-own-beneficial.html[/U
Thanks for the help!

 

yea its rough, my ph is all over too, usually up around 8.

Anyone have any idea if an RO unit will get rid of it?

This guy claims people havent been able to remove it with an RO system. Root Slime don't bother me!

 

yea, Im starting to think bennies are the only way around it. Honestly im too busy and lazy to be brewin that stuff up every week, and constantly monitoring the situation. I just picked up some of my local shops in-house soil mix. Im gonna keep tinkering with the dwc, just not go for the gold with it yet. Well see, im growing a few small jars of this bacteria for test subjects, see if i cant find somethin to kill it or at least keep it at bay. Thanks for all the help folks!