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#21

run pure water till they recover.

 

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Quantum9 said:

run pure water till they recover.

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Whenever I drain 70% and refil with r.o. My system will only drop like 20% off ppm, so is that what you mean by pure water or do you somehow get ec down by flushing out all the buckets?

 

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Just did a water changeout, drained to top of tubes, found sys #1 needed a lot of root pruning ( back 3-4 buckets in each row water was barley above tubes from ball and runners stopping the "under current" ) I decided to train them instead of cut as I'm at day 22 I grabbed the long runners and wrapped the root ball clogging the connecting tube back to the other end and it seemed to hold the ball back it's been only 24hrs.... Also flushed both 32dbxxl systems...., sys #1 ppm was at 270 and sys #2 ppm was at 290 before drain and fill with only 10ppm r.o and sys #1 is at 170ppm and #2 is at 170ppm and I not doing changeout ofter enough or somthing seems like it should go lower

 

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I flush down to the pvc 3 times every time i flush.

 

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All with r.o. ? I would need 1500gal to do that.... I might have to do like my buddy and pump out each module I ghess... Arghh pain in the ass

 

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I don't run r/o since the chlorine helps clean everything you could just gravity drain them all through your air stones it goes pretty fast if u don't want to put a pump in each

 

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Great idea! I have 180ppm well h20 so tap is not an option..... I may look for a pump that can do it (any ideas) maybe danner and prime airline with water first? as my air lines go into 3/4" that goes to rez room with air pumps that's 24" above my systems then it would be easy plumb in a tee and 2 valves so I can switch right to drain pump and switch off air pumps and valve... Last few days I just hooked each system to permenently hooked up drain pump in epicenter that can be controlled from rez room, each system has its own 1/2 gravity feed on a float & valve to turn off while draining so it fills back up in about 35min no need to disturb darkness

namedul said:

I don't run r/o since the chlorine helps clean everything you could just gravity drain them all through your air stones it goes pretty fast if u don't want to put a pump in each[/quot

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