Spoiled milk smell from my resevoir?

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  1. #1 Tripace, Feb 7, 2011
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    Okay, this might be a new one, but my reservoir has a spoiled milk smell coming from it, it's just the kinda sickly-sweet smell like when milk is first starting to go. And the air bubbles(got an airstone in the reservoir) are looking kind of slimy, plus this white, maybe off white slime seems to be building up. I'm hoping it might just have to do with the 1/2 TBSP molasses I added to the feeding, also used 1 tsp GH Flora gro and 1/2 tsp FF Tiger Bloom, in 1 gallon treated H2O(our tap water contains chloramine, so I have to use aquarium water treatment to make it safe for plants), PH treated to about 6.0. Hope this is enough info, I'm thinking I should flush with untreated water for about an hour or two then retreat a new gallon and add it? IDK:confused:
     
  2. #2 joey fats, Feb 8, 2011
    no molasses in bubblers...i have years of experience with it and earth juice catalyst is the closest thing to it that doesnt make your res nasty. If you apply a minimal 1/4 tsp per gallon it will minimize thickness. Plant doesnt really need that much anyways, people reccomend 2 tbsp per gallon sometimes but that is for soil...buy a bottle of carboload and earth juice catalyst and use 1 tsp per gallon of carbo and 1 tsp per gallon catalyst. It is perfect. Molasses in a diluted form with other organics, and added complex carbs with carboload, but doesnt cloud your system.

    it is possible to run organics and molasses in dwc but you have to almost be scientific with your grow. b/c you must maintain enuf microbes to eat the waste, but the microbes themselves put off waste, so enzymes are need to digest the waste from the microbes that eat the plant waste. Get rid of your air stones if you can, and forget the peroxide and buy some hygrozyme. peroxide is good but it just kills the bacteria good and bad, hygrozyme does that and has enzymes to maintain a low level of waste by digesting it. this will fix the problem for now. you will have to find a way to keep the air hose under water and on the bottom of the bucket without the airstone holding it down, but the larger size of the bubbles will produce less sludge...
     

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