Need advice- water from fridge has floaties

Is this definitely coming from the water and not the ice? I had something similar happen and it turns out the floaties were small pieces of plastic that were coming from the cube mold on my ice maker. My fridge is much older than yours though and I wouldn’t think this would be happening at 3 years.

That happened to my fridge. The stuff came from the filter. I changed the filter according to the manufacturer’s recommendations, but that didn’t help. When the area of Ascension Parish where I live began to get water from Baton Rouge Water Co., the water quality improved dramatically. But, I still got floaties from the water dispenser occasionally. I figured that the water from Baton Rouge didn’t need to be filtered, so I removed the filter and ran the dispenser without a filter. That was more than 10 years ago and I have not seen any floaties since then. If your water supply is good, you don’t need to filter it. If you have bad water, it’s probably best to use filters and tolerate a few floaties now and then.

Changed the filter and ran about 4 gallons through it. Nothing changed.. maybe.. maybe there are fewer coming out but that might just be wishful thinking lol

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those floaties are algae growing in the water filter because you never replaced it often enough

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not necessarily. The new Samsung fridges have a flap door that seals and when you dispense ice, flakes can stick on it. When it shuts it will melt and will keep standing water there. After a while standing water will grow mildew and when you get ice again, it will know some greenish black floateis.

I have started cleaning that flapper door area with bleach. Thinking about cutting a notch in the flapper door seal to allow that puddle to drain as well.

Just a guess, but it's possibly the feed line being plastic instead of copper that runs to the fridge. Copper keeps most of the nasty stuff from growing in your incoming water lines.