Bugs in my DWC res

[SoLowDoughLow]

What's up y'all. I was checking my ppm today and noticed a ton of little black bugs on my EC meter when I pulled it out. Looks like they are floating all over the top of the water. The plant looks healthy. Could they be harmless? Or is it gonna get real bad soon? They are the little black dots above the letters on this meter. I took a video but couldn't post it. It looked like it jumped like a flea almost. It just kinda disappeared.

 

[Sparrowhawk420]

What's up y'all. I was checking my ppm today and noticed a ton of little black bugs on my EC meter when I pulled it out. Looks like they are floating all over the top of the water. The plant looks healthy. Could they be harmless? Or is it gonna get real bad soon? They are the little black dots above the letters on this meter. I took a video but couldn't post it. It looked like it jumped like a flea almost. It just kinda disappeared.

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I gotta agree, plants look healthy AF, the disappearing act makes me think of springtails. I get little rafts of them floating in my flood and drain res' sometimes and a bit of something with some spinosad gets rid of them pretty quickly. Not actually sure how harmful they are because my plants have never shown signs of suffering when they're in there and as I said earlier, yours look pretty happy too.............

 

[mr_c]

Springtails jump and are generally harmless but they are white.

 

[Sparrowhawk420]

Not all springtail are white
.......edit, I'll agree with the harmless tho

 

[SoLowDoughLow]

Springtails jump and are generally harmless but they are white.

It's weird, they look white in the water, but they looked black on my ppm meter out of the water. Maybe cuz they are so small... I dunno but I guess I will find out if they are bad or not sooner or later lol

 

[yougrowyourway]

Order a damn scope for your phone a nice one is like 40 bucks

 

[SoLowDoughLow]

Order a damn scope for your phone a nice one is like 40 bucks

Been meaning to get one actually. I need to check some out. My little ten dollar one sucks anyway lol

 

[I AM]

You know how to rock a bucket...kudos.

I ran a 50/50 bucket. bubble'd a single gallon of RO...& change my feed water weekly.

Out of the feed bucket into a flush bucket...then into a plain water bucket...Then back to the fresh feed bucket. Not to much work but worth it. It will unlock an feed block & keep you running super clean. Just my 0.02.

See you at the cup...