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First DWC. overwhelmed with names and chemicals and additives

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First DWC. overwhelmed with names and chemicals and additives

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#583
Looks like a nice controller. Those two you listed too are a damn good price though.

I definitely need to upgrade my air pump. It’s not strong enough for four 6” stones and two 12” stones.
 
#584
User59204626117 said:
What’s the best way to increase water level in bucket? Raise my res or lower the buckets? I feel it’ll make my drain line on a weird angle if I adjust the heights of either. What’s the best way to do this?

also. Tons of brown dust buildup in my buckets

Or. Use my current 3/4 bullhead drain as a sight glass meter (add another bulkhead on top so it’s sealed)

and then create another drain line, but this one 1” below the mesh pots? So the water won’t start draining until it’s about 12” in the bucket/1” below the mesh pots?
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You are keeping your res and nutes covered from light, right? Otherwise you'll be fighting with algae and other organisms that are best seen outside a hydroponic system.
 
#585
If you can handle the noise and heat, EcoPlus or something similar; if not, AirForce or Alita; at least 40 lpm.
Aqua Man said:
Would probably start calling around. Many have good success with great white also.
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Or Orca if you're lazy and don't want to mix the powder.
 
#587
I still say get rid of the rez. Raising the water in your rez would raise water in buckets. You could also restrict your return line somehow and raise bucket levels. My only question is the water cooling? Im in southeast Ga and temp is always an issue. My buckets run about 74 degrees F. Can i dump ice in these to cool them? Seems like a superficial fix
 
#588
I normally run at 71f

I throw a frozen gallon jug in at night. It was thawed in a few hours. Temps were 63f.

By morning. My temps were 68. A chiller is the only way it seems.

why get rid of the res? It doesn’t complicate it that much and is a fairly easy fix to get it to work right with water levels.

This way I can also test temps from it. Re fill. Etc. Without lifting the plants every day or even opening the tent.
 
#589
How does raising the water in the res change my bucket levels with my setup?

I’m thinking of just keeping it the same and making the drain on the bucket higher. Simple fix.
 
#590
User59204626117 said:
How does raising the water in the res change my bucket levels with my setup?

I’m thinking of just keeping it the same and making the drain on the bucket higher. Simple fix.
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Its simple hydraulics. Higher level in the res pushes pressure to the buckets resulting in higher bucket levels. Some sort of reducer going back into your res would slow the flow and maintain higher bucket levels also. Raising the drain on the bucket would trap gunk in the bottoms of your buckets probly.
 
#591
I work in seafood. We do softshell crabs when theyre in season. We have tables that hold water that has constant flow. Our drain is directly in the middle of a table with pvc pipe as high as we want our water stuck into the drain. We also put a larger piece of pvc over that drain with triangle shapes cut in the bottom side. This makes the drain pull from the bottom of whatever its draining. So theres a few ideas.
 
#592
This is my setup. It drains at the top of my res. I was going to raise my res. But I think I just need to lower the drain on my res to the bottom then? That mesh stand in my tent is really screwing me i think
 

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#596
Watched that video. His setup is fancy. Definitely knows his stuff and made a good video that’s for sure. Way different than mine as his return line is fed by a pump but I definitely picked up a few things from him.

If only I wasn’t so strapped for cash. With local AAAA going for $100cad an oz it’s hard to even justify growing and spending hundreds every week lately.

would be nice to make a ton of upgrades. Would make my life a lot easier there for sure.

It seems that my main problem is the buckets are so much higher than the res. If they were all at the same elevation then the water level would be the same.

my buckets are 10” higher than my res and my res is small. That’s my problem.
 
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User59204626117 said:
Watched that video. His setup is fancy. Way different than mine as his return line is fed by a pump. How would he control his bucket heights that way?
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If the system is what I think it is, buckets equalize by nature of how fluids work physically. By nature, a liquid will attempt to fill all space within a given volume, and if there are multiple containers available, the levels will equalize across all available volume. The pump for the return just moves the solution from the epicenter throughout the entire system equally by way of negative pressure. I can't locate the video PK1 posted for some reason though, I'm just running on the assumption dude is probably running an undercurrent style setup.
 
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Dwcmagic said:
I still say get rid of the rez. Raising the water in your rez would raise water in buckets. You could also restrict your return line somehow and raise bucket levels. My only question is the water cooling? Im in southeast Ga and temp is always an issue. My buckets run about 74 degrees F. Can i dump ice in these to cool them? Seems like a superficial fix
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74 is about the max I go for optimal growth... restricting lines is a dangerous game of flood or not.
 
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