My water Reservoir fails after short time 3-4 day's. Please Help!

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Fiete

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I have no Idea what i do wrong but my Water Reservoir always fail after 3-4 day's.

My Reservoir Tank are a 50 Liter Tank with a 300l/hour pump for move the Water and a Air Pump for getting Oxygen to the Water and i add 3% Hydrogen Peroxide to it 3ml/liter every 5 Day's.

My Nutrients was bevore Canna Coco A&B but i thought it is not the right one so i switch Back to "General Hydroponics" bough a Bottle of Bloom GHE extra for checking out what the Main problem is. GHE is a proven Hydroponics Fertilizers so i make a new Reservoir of 30 Liter Yesterday and add 3ml / liter so 60 Liter H2O2 to it and today the water looks like this and i found some slimy Spots on my Water Pump very small but they will growth. I put the Air stone next to the Pump for suckling in the Oxygen Water i don't know if this Helps.

This is how it looks today its looks litte Milky and yesterday the Water was more Red from the GHE today its clean i don't know

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Nizza

Nizza

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Fiete said:
I have no Idea what i do wrong but my Water Reservoir always fail after 3-4 day's.

My Reservoir Tank are a 50 Liter Tank with a 300l/hour pump for move the Water and a Air Pump for getting Oxygen to the Water and i add 3% Hydrogen Peroxide to it 3ml/liter every 5 Day's.

My Nutrients was bevore Canna Coco A&B but i thought it is not the right one so i switch Back to "General Hydroponics" bough a Bottle of Bloom GHE extra for checking out what the Main problem is. GHE is a proven Hydroponics Fertilizers so i make a new Reservoir of 30 Liter Yesterday and add 3ml / liter so 60 Liter H2O2 to it and today the water looks like this and i found some slimy Spots on my Water Pump very small but they will growth. I put the Air stone next to the Pump for suckling in the Oxygen Water i don't know if this Helps.

This is how it looks today its looks litte Milky and yesterday the Water was more Red from the GHE today its clean i don't know

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is the water 100% in the dark? I would conduct this experiment in a dark room
maybe the tote could be translucent too. Try shining a light thru it and see in a dark room?
or perhaps the plastic is degrading/mixing into water if it is of low quality
 
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Fiete

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Nizza said:
is the water 100% in the dark? I would conduct this experiment in a dark room
maybe the tote could be translucent too. Try shining a light thru it and see in a dark room?
or perhaps the plastic is degrading/mixing into water if it is of low quality
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Hi, a friend has the same Box and no problem.
 
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Ed Rosestale

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Remove the air stone, put the pump to the corner and point the stream along the longer side so it make kinda vortex and run it for like 3 days. Than add your peroxide, consume as much as possible, than refill with fresh water, add nutrients and peroxide and once it get cloudy its time to clean. This is how I did it when used peroxide and managed to keep it clear for like 10 days. Switched to HTH pool shock and never cleaned neither reservoir nor pumps since than. Never looked back
 
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Fiete

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Ed Rosestale said:
Remove the air stone, put the pump to the corner and point the stream along the longer side so it make kinda vortex and run it for like 3 days. Than add your peroxide, consume as much as possible, than refill with fresh water, add nutrients and peroxide and once it get cloudy its time to clean. This is how I did it when used peroxide and managed to keep it clear for like 10 days. Switched to HTH pool shock and never cleaned neither reservoir nor pumps since than. Never looked back
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Why removing the Air Stone?
 
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Fiete

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Tolerance Break said:
You're adding 3% solution of h2o2 to a resovoire, which is diluting it into basically nothing.

You need the 32% concentrate at 3ml per gallon, or as mentioned above, use granulated pool shock (calcium hypochlorite) and save a ton of money.
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A friend of mine don't add H2O2 only air stone and no problems i cannot understand it
 
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Ed Rosestale

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If you are using tap water, you should be fine to run it with water circulating inside for like 3 days, than you can see few bubles on the surface here and there so you add your peroxide which should keep it another 3 days. Its all dependant on temperature and direct light. I have been running same nutrients and peroxide and have the same issue. I think you can try and see if its going to work for you or not. I have figured out for myself that too much of agitation brought the cloudyness faster, than just slight water circulation.
 
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Fiete

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Ed Rosestale said:
If you are using tap water, you should be fine to run it with water circulating inside for like 3 days, than you can see few bubles on the surface here and there so you add your peroxide which should keep it another 3 days. Its all dependant on temperature and direct light. I have been running same nutrients and peroxide and have the same issue. I think you can try and see if its going to work for you or not. I have figured out for myself that too much of agitation brought the cloudyness faster, than just slight water circulation.
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I use Osmose Water
 
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Fiete

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Ed Rosestale said:
If you are using tap water, you should be fine to run it with water circulating inside for like 3 days, than you can see few bubles on the surface here and there so you add your peroxide which should keep it another 3 days. Its all dependant on temperature and direct light. I have been running same nutrients and peroxide and have the same issue. I think you can try and see if its going to work for you or not. I have figured out for myself that too much of agitation brought the cloudyness faster, than just slight water circulation.
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The pump is the smallest i found
 
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