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[y-not]

Mine does that from time to time.
I simply fill it with tap water, add a gallon of vinegar, turn on the mixing pump and let it run for a day or two. While I've got things mixing about in there I'll toss in my siphon hoses, drip hoses and anything else that could use a good cleaning.

Then I rinse everything and they are as good as new again.

I've never worried about it. I just like it to look, feel and smell clean.
I left a few gallons of mixed saltwater in the container for about 2 weeks. It started smelling like a cat had sprayed the area. Funky stuff!

 

[heathlindner25]

yeah I'm going to clean it, basically just messing with Dlyan at this point..lol

 

[joseayes]

Great information Guys!
RO-DI water as pure as it appear is absolutely not! One day I have tested a gallon of water left over in a roof for three days, including nights hehe, in a new gallon container, then I went to check it, just by the smell, you can actually notice that, like Ralph said, lots of virus, bacteria and others life forms were living in there.
I have a clear acrylic RO-DI container and it will create the slime coat on the walls, and bottom, then I have an ATO container made in blue plastic and it creates the same coat, at the beginning I was thinking that may be the light through the container wall will affect this issue, but then I found that not necessarily at some point, but still good husbandry will help in this problem, and I have months that I don't wash this containers :0

 

[rdnelson]

heathlindner25;883565 wrote: thank you for the response. bacteria and absolutely sterile water? not being confrontational just wondering how it can grow in sterile water? the bacteria eating the plastic kind of like bio pellets?

Ever here if Lake Vostok in Antarctica? Check it out. You would be amazed at what conditions life can thrive.


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