Trust me I've been using aeroponic cloners for years, from homeade to prebuilts. I tried everything. When I moved I had issues. Now with UV sterilized water it seems ok.
On a seperate note do you use potassium peroxymonosulfate at all?
Can you give it a shot and see how your ORP meter reads? Its pH stable.
a preventative for most ...... Id rather use them and not need them , than need them and not have them.
What kind of UV sterilizer? I have an old water cooler that has one built in i was going to strip out and try to adapt it to one of my res's
a 6 watt stainless one on ebay, uses a phillips bulb. around 80 dollars.
I believe it's effectiveness is based on a ratio of water depth to exposure time, based on what I've read.. In a deep res the water would need more exposure time than an inline with 1/4" of water flowing around it.i thought uv light only kills the surface bacteria on the water.
i may be wrong
is that cholrine? Pool shock
doesn't the chlorine evaporate before 3 week?
Yeah, I add it back to the cloner every 3 or 4 days. It's easier to make a pool shock/ water solution for the cloners since they don't hold a lot of water. When I make my cloner mix, I just keep it in a jug with a cap on it and in a cooler. I think when it's sealed and in the dark, the chlorine mix will last quite a while. Every month or so I'll dump out what's not used and make a new batch.
