Ph/ppm/water swing and drops

stiffnuts12

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So I've been following this damn chart witch is great and all. My ph keeps dropping from 5.8 to the high 4s my ppms are at 550 and will drop to 400 to 350ish within a Night. So the chart says to do a res change and up ppm or ec. Can I just top of the water level add more nutrients and adjust ph? Or is the acid rain a bad deal?
 

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Hollatchaboy

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So I've been following this damn chart witch is great and all. My ph keeps dropping from 5.8 to the high 4s my ppms are at 550 and will drop to 400 to 350ish within a Night. So the chart says to do a res change and up ppm or ec. Can I just top of the water level add more nutrients and adjust ph? Or is the acid rain a bad deal?
Don't just add water, then nutes. Make up your normal nute solution, and top off with that. Change out res after a few top offs.
 

stiffnuts12

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Something Under Current recommends is doing 50% change out of rez. Are you by chance doing 100%
Yes I change out 100% of the water. I had a little something starting to form on one of my air stones. It was difficult to spot because it was wrapped up in the roots
 

stiffnuts12

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Did you get any pics of it?
No I cut the lady's down and noticed a film on the air stone didn't think much about. Drained the water refilled and added 12% peroxide and let it sit for a few days. Came back to scrub everything down and had a like a foam algae or something floating around the top. So I drained everything and scrubed the hell out of it and added a bunch of uc roots. Let it set for about 10 minutes. Refilled res and IL drain again tonight
 

Treesomewanted77

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No I cut the lady's down and noticed a film on the air stone didn't think much about. Drained the water refilled and added 12% peroxide and let it sit for a few days. Came back to scrub everything down and had a like a foam algae or something floating around the top. So I drained everything and scrubed the hell out of it and added a bunch of uc roots. Let it set for about 10 minutes. Refilled res and IL drain again tonight
You can use diluted bleach for cleaning and it won’t hurt the plants. The stuff that’s in UC roots you can get a home generator to make your own at a fraction of the cost if you use it often. Just some options.
 

Treesomewanted77

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You dont have one?
No I haven’t gotten one yet as I’m still using up my supply of pool shock. I got 10lbs of the HTH pool shock so I figure I will use that first before I add more stuff to my collection lol. I should have gotten one when covid started for house cleaning would have saved a ton
 

stiffnuts12

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Got a gunk slugde in my water fall supply lines what the best way to clean 4 foot of 3/4 in line? I'm boiling it at the moment
 
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