All my showers and sink faucets keep clogging up with little red fish eggs it looks like. What could this be?

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Originally Posted by ajellison10

All my showers and sink faucets keep clogging up with little red fish eggs it looks like. What could this be?

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Are you on a well or city water? Do you have a water softener in your house? Back to you, Tom

I am on city water. We don't use a water softener. We have one but it is bypassed and not plugged in. This problem started when I turned the backyard hose on and these same little red spheres came out. They are also on the ground by the hose faucet

Describe these "fish eggs. Are they soft or hard? Do they smell? Are they organic ? Lets's have more details. Check your tanks. Open up the softener and check, Open up the boiler drain on the water heater and check and any other tanks that you might have in the system. Back to you, Tom

They are the size of sand and they are hard. I don't think they are actually eggs but that's what they look like. Water softener is clean. The water heater I will have to look at after work. But like I said its all connected to when I turned on the hose in the back yard

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like I said its all connected to when I turned on the hose in the back yard

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And that's what puzzles the hell out of me. Water discharges out of your hose under pressure. Let me spin out a scenario on how this could possibly happen. Somehow the red eggs got up in your hose and some came out behind the water pressure, But there were enough left in your system so when you made a draw they got sucked back up into your system and out your faucet.
You're going to have to track them back to the source. Starting with the garden hose bib and supply line. Good luck, Tom

Thanks for your help. My plumber friend says they are mineral deposits from the water softener. It was not bypassed all the way when I moved in and with no salt or anything it created those deposits.

I thought the softener might be the culprit. Thanks for the update. Tom