DWC water smells

[bobbjoedope]

Ok, this is my first dwc experience. My seedling has one set of true leaves so far and I noticed one lone root finally hit the water. It's been about a week since the bean popped.

It's in hydroton and I changed the res twice already (3 gallons in a 5gal bucket). I'm just using my tap water and phing to 6.0.

it takes about 3 days. I'll lift the lid and it smells like raw sewage. This happened twice so far.

Also, the ph seems to be going up about a point per day. Yesterday i phed to 6.0 and today it was 6.8.

Any ideas?

 

[Billy the Mountain]

Sure sounds like an issue specific to your water quality.

 

[Mr. Mohaskey]

Look up Sterile rez and chlorine. Pool Shock is your friend. There is a link around here often sited and is good. $2200 clear rez for....

Some will pipe up with the link. Hopefully

Edit: pool shock for NaCl

 

[HydoDan]

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[bobbjoedope]

I keep a 7 gallon water jug filled in my basement. Sometimes it'll sit for a week or so and it does not smell. If it is a problem with my water, wouldn't stagnant water laying around in jugs in my basement smell?

 

[Billy the Mountain]

I keep a 7 gallon water jug filled in my basement. Sometimes it'll sit for a week or so and it does not smell. If it is a problem with my water, wouldn't stagnant water laying around in jugs in my basement smell?

Are you using anything organic in your dwc setup? That's a big no-no.
There shouldn't be a any smell using proper hydro nutes.

 

[bobbjoedope]

Are you using anything organic in your dwc setup? That's a big no-no.
There shouldn't be a any smell using proper hydro nutes.

Nothing organic. It only has one set of true leaves so I'm just using ph'd water.

 

[Billy the Mountain]

Nothing organic. It only has one set of true leaves so I'm just using ph'd water.

What are you using to lower the pH?

Try aerating your bucket of tap and see what happens. There's only a few variables in play.

 

[bobbjoedope]

Look up Sterile rez and chlorine. Pool Shock is your friend. There is a link around here often sited and is good. $2200 clear rez for....

Some will pipe up with the link. Hopefully

Edit: pool shock for NaCl

What's the difference between using this and hydroguard/SAG?

 

[bobbjoedope]

What are you using to lower the pH?

Try aerating your bucket of tap and see what happens. There's only a few variables in play.

General Hydroponics. When I was swapping the res last night the tube that leads to the drip ring felt slimy. I removed the drip ring and replaced the 2 air stones and lines with new ones.

I'm using the vivosun dwc kit. It came with those small round stones. I'm using 2 of them with a tetra 3.5 watt air pump.

 

[Hollatchaboy]

What's the difference between using this and hydroguard/SAG?

Hydroguard is beneficial bacteria. Pool shock is calcium hypochlorite.

 

[bobbjoedope]

Hydroguard is beneficial bacteria. Pool shock is calcium hypochlorite.

I should have phrased that better. These two products solve the same problem?

 

[Hollatchaboy]

I should have phrased that better. These two products solve the same problem?

Imo, no. Hydroguard works better as a preventative, ime. Pool shock is when you have problems and preventative. This is just my experience though.

 

[driver77]

There are 2 ways to go about it...sterile or beneficial bacteria. The above mentioned thread has excellent advice on sterile. I run Hydroguard but I have an aquarium chiller on my rez and keep temps 65 to 69f.
If you have bad smells you have a bad bacterial infection and choices are to clean and shock it or clean thoroughly and start again with beneficial bacteria. Either way you have to kill what's in there and start fresh with either Hydroguard(or something like it) or a sterile solution.

 

[bobbjoedope]

There are 2 ways to go about it...sterile or beneficial bacteria. The above mentioned thread has excellent advice on sterile. I run Hydroguard but I have an aquarium chiller on my rez and keep temps 65 to 69f.
If you have bad smells you have a bad bacterial infection and choices are to clean and shock it or clean thoroughly and start again with beneficial bacteria. Either way you have to kill what's in there and start fresh with either Hydroguard(or something like it) or a sterile solution.

Makes sense. Thank you! Does any of this change if I'm using synthetic nutes, like Master blend?

 

[driver77]

No....I use Jacks it's synthetic.

 

[Mr. Mohaskey]

What's the difference between using this and hydroguard/SAG?

I don't have a chiller so I run sterile, don't really worry about rez Temps. 1 less headache, IMO, and cost to buy a chiller or build one compared to sterile is not worth the money for any gains that may or may not be observable. Again, my opinion. We all do it differently with great results, and some with less than great lol.

 

[bobbjoedope]

Can someone please let me know what the ingredients I should look for in the pool shock? I went to Ace and almost bought salt shock. ‍

 

[driver77]

Can someone please let me know what the ingredients I should look for in the pool shock? I went to Ace and almost bought salt shock. ‍

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[bobbjoedope]

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I was asking about the ingredients. Calcium hypochlorite. I figured it out i think. There are many different strengths and types of shock though I'm assuming with other ingredients. I'm going to try this one and assume it's still the same 1gram-1gallon water ratio ‍
It's 52% calhypo

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