any idea how you keep a little bucket cooler than the room?
Just my .02 on the buckets overal, when used correct their awesome, when something goes wrong they suck. I ran into troubles with mine 2 yrs ago when i was running an rdwc hydro setup, the relative air temp in my basement was 78-82 degrees, o ya and this was for my 32 site not my 13, anyways i also used clear rez which i must say can be a life saver for 7 bucks its worth savin clones, anyways i religiously cleaned my res and changed the water at 5 days just to be safe, in my 32 site when everything is going smooth almost all of the clones will have roots by 9 days and by 14 they're blown up, anyways the water temp spike at some point and hit 76 degrees, after 1 day at 76 degree water temp a bad bacteria with a slimey nature had manifested itself on my poor babies roots zone, when i noticed it 3 days later it had fully coated the bottom of my clones in what looks like a whitish grey slime, this was the end of my clone, there is no coming back once it's on the roots, i tried light bleach and it wound up destroying everything. i made this mistake 2 more times before i learned that at 78-82 degree my rez had to be at 71 degrees or lower, the higher the difference between air temp and water temp the faster and more explosive the root growth.anyways in the end i put trays of ice cubes in the rez in the mourning ad insulation around it, then took a small high powered fan and pointed it directly at the rez, my temps stayed at a comfortable 71-72 in the tank, i got a mini-split bout a week after that and the rest is all a daze haha, anyways hope this helped........Also caps bennies are carried in talc powder, the bennies are meant to be extracted in a sense from the talc powder, then used, so no putting caps directly into your res is never a good idea, also i have tried act in my rez and have found no benefit too it until after the roots are established, (makes sense),