Thanks a lot for sharing your knowledge Snype, I really appreciate your posts! Keep'em coming
I never had big troubles with slime and using a chiller it's enough in my setup but...I have a question if you don't mind.
Making it simple the question is: are you sure a living organism can develop a resistance to an oxidizing agent like chlorine?
I think it's very difficult for a bacteria develop a strategy to protect himself from such a kind of elements. Chlorine is like oxygen and it literally burns things like in a process of combustion we can see every day in our house.
How can a bacteria develop a resistance to that? Did you already think about it?
And one more thing: I know you put in the trash all the clones and it's ok, the safest way....but how about residual antibiotic within the plant? Usually this kind of things are really short lasting. It could be useful to know for how long it keep microbes away and how long it remains in the plant's tissues. Any input on that?
If you do a search on google, you will find Chlorine resistance bacteria. You can also find articles about it in drinking water. The fact is that I would pour a whole gallon of Bleach into an 10 Gallon EZ Cloner and scrub the shit inside and out. The slime would come back and go even crazier than they did before. In fact here's a link for you talking about chlorine resistant cyanobacteria in drinking water. It's not the best article but you can search for more:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22137293
I don't have any input on the last question but it doesn't really interest me to grow plants with antibiotics in any form. Even if science shows that there is no trace in the plant it's not something that I would be comfortable doing. It kind of feels like an ornamental pesticide (florimite, avid, forbid) half life conversation to me.