Should I use an air pump in my resivoir for ebb and flow?

[Greenkace]

I know it always good to oxygenate your nute solution but the guy at the hydro shop warned against heating the resivoir using an air pump. It's a 100 gal resivoir, the pump (hydrofarm 60w) I have has an 8 way gang valve on it, I bought it from the hydro store for a past dwc grow with 8 buckets. My question is this: is it worth the extra electricity and effort hooking up this pump with a bunch of airstones, and will it actually heat up 100 gal res on a basement floor that much? Does the flooding provide enough oxygenation?

Thanks alot!
Gk

 

[MoJobud]

Larger res means more stable temps. First, what is your res temp? If you can keep your res below 70 degrees with air, you're golden. I use frozen water bottles in mine. Crude but it works.

 

[hoagtech]

You should be fine. air pumps are not submersible so it doesnt belong in your res anyways.

 

[Greenkace]

You should be fine. air pumps are not submersible so it doesnt belong in your res anyways.

Heh, I sure hope nobody would throw an air pump into a container of water.
But the airpump does have air moving through a hot motor and into the res water

 

[Greenkace]

Thanks for the info everybody. So, after also reading through the older posts it seems that if I added an air pump to the res it wouldn't add much more dissolved oxygen but it will keep the res clean and healthy.

 

[GermiNATE B]

Thanks for the info everybody. So, after also reading through the older posts it seems that if I added an air pump to the res it wouldn't add much more dissolved oxygen but it will keep the res clean and healthy.

If you mean you should put an air stone in your nute rez for oxygenated water, then yes you are correct.. You're giving your water life by passing air through the water.. Think of the rain, how it passes through the air before it hits the ground and its supposed to be great for plants, I'm assuming its the same principal as an air stone in your rez.. Give your water life and your water will give your plants life.. Good luck.

 

[Goldowitz]

I run an air pump with my ebb and flow. One watt of air power per gallon of water.

 

[hellraizer30]

a air pump is going to cool or heat your water it all depends on the air temp outside the pump, pump sucks air into the res
and it floats up either cooling or heating.