
mandalaman
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Yeah man, no need to change it up if what you have now works when it comes to things like bulkheads, pipe, etc.I have a couple little air stones in the control bucket, to kind of mix my nutrients and chems that i add, plus it keeps a good mix and my orb clean. But i dont have no air stones in my bucket. I achieve the same thing with the drip rings as the water falls back down thru the net pot and splashes into the water it aerates it, or thats what they claim! lol It has worked well for me like that. I may run some stones in a couple and see if there is a noticeable difference.. I do think i would like to go to 2" pipe and and CC bulkheads one day but i need to see this one fail me first before making the jump.
2" pipe would have been nice but I sized down to 1.5" PVC pipe and the female connectors OD fit the 2" bulkhead ID perfectly. If I did it over i wouldn't use the PVC piping as spacers between the connectors running perpendicular to the control bucket as it adds an extra 6" I could really use.
I was seeing some people mentioning just the feedback line emptying into the control bucket and splashing on the surface creates enough aeration for the whole system (up to 4-8 sites maybe?) so that makes sense to me. As i understand it, oxygen enters through the surface of water so the bubbles just break up the surface area to expose more to oxygen. So a rain drop would have the same effect. I might not have that absolutely correct but I believe it's something like that.