Anybody with experience with the Blended line in DWC know if it’s normal to foam? I purchased the full Pro line since they said both lines work in any medium, asked them ahead of time if the Pro line would work and they said it would. I ran the Pro line and my system started foaming, getting brown, and the started sludging up. I contact Athena and they told me to switch to the Blended line. At this point I was a bit frustrated since they assured me that the Pro line would work and I already spent hundreds of dollars on it, and now they’re telling me to spend a more to replace it with the blended line. I literally used about 100 grams each of the Core and Grow.
So I’ve just switched to the Blended line after 2 of their reps told me to and I’m running into the same issues that I had with the Pro line after 48 hours of use. So after eliminating the pro line I tore my whole system down and hand scrubbed it with bleach and water, drained and vacuumed out all of my lines, let bleach circulate for a few hours, rinsed out about 5 times, then let plain RO circulate for 24 hours. Drained the RO water, vacuumed and drained the lines again, rinsed out one more time, then filled with plain RO water. Added new plants, then the blended line and started seeing white foam within 24 hours, and after 48 hours the foam has a brown tint just like the Pro line had. I contacted Athena again and they can’t seem to give me a straight answer if the foam is normal or not.
I haven’t added anything other than the Athena nutrients, so I have no idea, but this foam is getting thicker every time I check.