I have something very similar. Basically looks like yours except for it comes out in big chunks every now and then. Itll be about 1-2" wide by up to 12" long. I cant find any images of it online so not sure what the heck it is! My house isn't hooked up to the well but everything else is and its what I use for the animals.
Hi Austin, Not sure if you had a chance to look at another video I posted regarding the bacteria in the Flotec water pressure tank ( ruclips.net/video/c8BUP0i_4bI/видео.html ) but this is where my neighbor had the bacteria bloom. The Flotec water pressure tank had a small opening (~ 4 inch diameter but need to remove 6 nuts) that allowed us to get in clean out the bacteria bloom. The water was tested for total coliform with this bacteria present and it passed. I suspect if you are getting large bacteria pieces, I would look at the water pressure tank or maybe the hot water tank. I would expect the large bacteria pieces would be pulverized into small pieces from the paddles in the well pump so the large bacteria pieces are probably not coming from the well/pump. We were not able to find anyone to identify the clear/white slime bacteria. There was likely some iron bacteria present giving this clear/white slime bacteria a orange color on some of the samples. Iron bacteria is more on the microscopic level giving an orange tint in our sinks/tubs in this area. Basically it was getting expensive trying to identify the clear/white slime bacteria so the direction was shock the well (water system) with bleach and move on.
Actually right at about the 30 second mark on your other video you show the filter and there's some gunk on it that looks exactly like what I'm seeing. I'll see if I can't clean the tank and see if that fixes my issue! Thanks for posting that link!
I have something very similar. Basically looks like yours except for it comes out in big chunks every now and then. Itll be about 1-2" wide by up to 12" long. I cant find any images of it online so not sure what the heck it is! My house isn't hooked up to the well but everything else is and its what I use for the animals.
Hi Austin,
Not sure if you had a chance to look at another video I posted regarding the bacteria in the Flotec water pressure tank ( ruclips.net/video/c8BUP0i_4bI/видео.html ) but this is where my neighbor had the bacteria bloom. The Flotec water pressure tank had a small opening (~ 4 inch diameter but need to remove 6 nuts) that allowed us to get in clean out the bacteria bloom. The water was tested for total coliform with this bacteria present and it passed. I suspect if you are getting large bacteria pieces, I would look at the water pressure tank or maybe the hot water tank. I would expect the large bacteria pieces would be pulverized into small pieces from the paddles in the well pump so the large bacteria pieces are probably not coming from the well/pump. We were not able to find anyone to identify the clear/white slime bacteria. There was likely some iron bacteria present giving this clear/white slime bacteria a orange color on some of the samples. Iron bacteria is more on the microscopic level giving an orange tint in our sinks/tubs in this area. Basically it was getting expensive trying to identify the clear/white slime bacteria so the direction was shock the well (water system) with bleach and move on.
Actually right at about the 30 second mark on your other video you show the filter and there's some gunk on it that looks exactly like what I'm seeing. I'll see if I can't clean the tank and see if that fixes my issue! Thanks for posting that link!