OldMedUser
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There has never been any mould between the insulation and the tub walls nor have I ever had any algae in any of the 40+ DWC tubs I have run since 2001 so the plastic must be thick enough to block all of the light spectrum algae needs to grow. Once the plants get a foot tall their foliage blocks the light from hitting the lid anyways. If a 400W over the bare lid doesn't make algae grow I think I'm OK doing what I'm doing.as for what u did almost 100% right .......u forgot tho about moisture build up what u have there is a mold breeding ground from the condensation water spills ....there is always a water barrier in place before they lay anything like that to avoid just that in the construction trade .......u want to remove that bleach wash the outside of it to kill anything go get foam board 1 inch thick build a box around it on 5 sides and then paint the top of the tote in flat white paint (rem to scar the lid so it does not flake)...now and then spray down the side with a 1bleach to 4 water part mix after while the bleach will make crystals and then u do not have to worry about it anymore anytime it gets wet for spores the crystals will go liquid and kill on contact
the big trouble for u now is the top as it is blue and i am not sure the mil thickness .......the light is still able to get direct exposure to the lid so it is absorbing some of the light waves heating it up above the air temp .....the other thing is the color it allows blue if the thickness is under 70mils it will allow light to pass into the roots and can cause algae and other bad micros to grow and effect your plants
u will hate me less
Doesn't matter how you prep the surface of the lid even special paints for plastics will flake off after short use. If I wanted to cover it well I'd use that shiny aluminum tape on a well sanded lid. It sticks to plastic quite well.
Sorry to hear about the bi-polar. That's a roller coaster ride I'd rather not take. I've had chronic depression for 38 years now that started after a near fatal hammer attack where I was on the wrong end of the hammer. Doctor counted 32 blows to my head and another 20 or so on each arm from blocking the flurry of blows coming from a 400lb man kneeling on my chest. Sleep paralysis nightmares 3x a night for months, All the valium and demerol I wanted and I ended up almost eating my shotgun after 6 months of abusing those with copious amounts of hard liquor. Years of trying every toxic pill the idiot doctors prescribed when the depressions got so deep that checking out seemed the only option. That happened in '78 and my life was changed forever and not for the good.
My depression isn't manic at all but maybe I could get things done if I had a bit of that, Mine is a slow slide into the darkness over a period of months. I'm sure it's PTSD but the therapist I saw for a year and a half a few years ago kept harping on about issues with my dad. Sure we had a crappy relationship but in my late 20s we got to be pretty close and had plans to spend the summer going fishing in the ocean on the new 19ft cabin cruiser he had traded in the 16 footer for. He died of the cancer he'd been fighting for 5 years before he could take delivery of the new boat. We had worked out our past problems and I had told him how much I loved him and he did the same. I have nothing but fond memories of dad now and mom and I often reminisce about him. He died in '86, a year before he was to retire early at the same age I am now, 62. A decorated veteran of WWII that served in the Canadian navy for the duration of the war in both the Atlantic and Pacific theaters and well deserving of respect from me or anyone else.
Don't think that I hate you. Hate only hurts the hater and I got no time for that. I kinda hate how much this thread has gone off the rails but I don't get all butt-hurt over stuff like that.
PS: Have you ever checked out HomeDistiller.org? Lots of good stuff there for the hobbyist and pro. Try distilling butane with two flat-bottom boiling balls and some copper tubing running into the deep freeze. I get more mileage out of my 9x filtered stuff when doing a run of BHO.
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