what could it be

[padders]

im halfway through brewing an extract beer,with fv in a trug fiiled with water and a fishtank heater.it started off with vigour and overflowed a bit into the trug
looking at my thermometer now, it seemed a bit low, and as my heater is adjustable i thought i would turn it up a bit,now having turned off the power to the heater i put my hand into the water of the trug only to find my hand covered with what could only descibed as alien slime!! this stuff is the most stringy, sticky stuff ive ever seen and it dont wash off that easy either,
anyone have an idea what this stuff is???

 

[mcc111]

That can only be ectoplasm. You, sir, have a haunted fermentor. Call a priest immediately :twisted:

 

[padders]

dont know about a priest, a decorator might be more handy ,this stuff could hang wallpaper!

 

[Fil]

drop some bleach in the trub it will kill anything in there. the overspill must have carried some sugar into the water to feed anything that landed on the surface, the nice incubating temp provided by the water heater helped the propogation no doubt..

the concern is that the overspil left a trail of sugar back into the bucket so a 10% bleach rinse off of the bucket wall and snapped shut seal may also be a wise precaution.

as to what the stuff is?? could be anything -legionnaires even :twisted:

 

[goodolpete]

Rather than bleach, that could get on your clothes, buy 750g of salt from Tescos
and dissolve that in your water.

 

[padders]

cant find the bleech at the moment so ive just droped in 3 milton tabs ,hope this does the trick!!