Anybody have a good commercial pump to recommend for teas?

greasemonkeymann

greasemonkeymann

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Hello All. So I very rarely post a question, but my old aquarium jet took a crap, and i need a new commercial air pump for my brewer, i have a ten gallon brewer that i only fill 1/3 to 1/2 full, so that's 3-5 gallons of teas i like to make, I've done a fair amount of research and I've read reviews that both the eco-plus and the hydrofarm have problems with heat and premature failing. So my question is this, what do you tea-making-organic guys recommend, with an emphasis on reliability. I have searched and there wasn't a clear choice. I'm looking for one that has around 20w of power at least. Hopefully around 50 bucks or so, but i NEVER mind spending a lil more for a better product.
Any help/advice is greatly appreciated.
 
greasemonkeymann

greasemonkeymann

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Pattahabi said:
That's the pump I use - a little overkill. You could also use the comm 1 for the size brewer you have.

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yeah I was thinking around a 20 w or so, I've heard the low-watt "aquarium" pumps just don't do nearly the job, so as always for me, if i'm doing it, i'm going to do it the optimal and most efficient way.
Thank you all for your input! i'm gonna see what I can find. I appreciate it greatly.
 
greasemonkeymann

greasemonkeymann

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Pattahabi said:
That's the pump I use - a little overkill. You could also use the comm 1 for the size brewer you have.

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that's the one i'm looking at, close to 800gp and that's an asston for a 3-5 gallon brew, its gonna be frothy, I like to use a window screen to keep the froth down to where it doesn't over flow.
So, what do you guys think of this recipe for the tea.
2 cups of homemade fresh EWC
cup of alfalfa
1 tbspn of molasses
two cups of fresh kelp rinsed and crushed from the local beaches
cup of cottonseed meal.
this is for roughly 5 gallons
when I FEED them I add two cups rabbit manure, or one cup rabbit, one cup alpaca manure, with a half cup of seabird guano (12-8-2), but depending on the strain, I only feed a MAX of three or four times a grow. but the teas I feed weekly.
The things i'm considering is Alaska humus, and mushroom compost, but i'm not sure if that's going to help, considering I have fresh EWC, so is there an added advantage of the different types of humus?
Oh one more thing, I always dilute to a 2/1 ratio of water to the tea. Sometime 3/1 depending on the plant and what it looks like it needs.
 
Pattahabi

Pattahabi

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If your brew is foaming, try adding a little fish hydrolysate to reduce the foam. No on the cottonseed meal. Choose if you are making a nutrient tea or a microbial extrapolation. If the goal is to feed the microbes, I'd highly recommend keeping it simple and just use EWC at 2.38% of water volume and BSM at .5% of water volume. If you add kelp and alfalfa you will delay microbe reproduction. It will still work, but more of a guessing game of when it's ready (unless you're proficient at putting it under the scope). No diluting necessary with a microbial extrapolation.

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