I could use a little help from some senior hydro guys.
Since my first or second res fill I've had cloudy res issues. At first I didn't have the lid on the Rubbermaid container. It's a 60 liter container filled with 27 liters. I'm running Dutchmaster Gold and dose with 15ml of 29% H202 every couple days. Several times I've taking everything apart and scrubbed the shit out of it with high concentrate of H202 and even ran it through the flood lines for a few seconds. The Res water has two airstones blasting on max and the tray floods every hour (or hour and half... can't remember). The only thing I haven't done is take the plants out of the hydrocorn or try and treat the grow media alone. For obviously reasons something I don't want to attempt. The plants are in pots so they're movable allowing me to clean the flood tray. The previous res change didn't start to get cloudy until day six. This one started to get cloudy in twenty four hours. When I cleaned it last time there was a mild slime on the tray walls. No foaming in the res, maybe a slight "fishy pond smell", If so... It's very minimal. The res temps stay at 58f. The previous res by day 5 had rising PPM and PH. I couldn't keep the PH down. I'd drop it to 5.4 and the next day it'd be up to 6.2, PPM's were creeping up. From my research it's probably that piece of shit brown algae. I did add the lid to the res other than a 4x6 notch cutout at the edge for the plumbing. Light is obviously getting in but I doubt that's the real issue. Air rating the water and H202 and proper res temps, I would think, would combat the algae growth even with slight light penetration. So my next step is making a Heisenberg tea. Does this sound like an appropriate next step? This is my first grow. The environment is a consistent 72f - 77f with a varying RH from 40% - 50%, I've added a warm air humidifier to keep the RH up at the given levels. Using tap water that is 150ppm 7.2 @ 58f bumped up to 650 ppm. The plants seem to be happy at that dose. No other issues other than some very minor leaf problems which is probably from the PH flux.
On a side note; RH went really high when I changed the res this last time. My guess the plants were transpiring like crazy. I'm not sure if they liked the change or if they were shocked. The water was probably 10 degress warmer than they were use to, or maybe the fresh H202 got them perked up.
Thanks
Since my first or second res fill I've had cloudy res issues. At first I didn't have the lid on the Rubbermaid container. It's a 60 liter container filled with 27 liters. I'm running Dutchmaster Gold and dose with 15ml of 29% H202 every couple days. Several times I've taking everything apart and scrubbed the shit out of it with high concentrate of H202 and even ran it through the flood lines for a few seconds. The Res water has two airstones blasting on max and the tray floods every hour (or hour and half... can't remember). The only thing I haven't done is take the plants out of the hydrocorn or try and treat the grow media alone. For obviously reasons something I don't want to attempt. The plants are in pots so they're movable allowing me to clean the flood tray. The previous res change didn't start to get cloudy until day six. This one started to get cloudy in twenty four hours. When I cleaned it last time there was a mild slime on the tray walls. No foaming in the res, maybe a slight "fishy pond smell", If so... It's very minimal. The res temps stay at 58f. The previous res by day 5 had rising PPM and PH. I couldn't keep the PH down. I'd drop it to 5.4 and the next day it'd be up to 6.2, PPM's were creeping up. From my research it's probably that piece of shit brown algae. I did add the lid to the res other than a 4x6 notch cutout at the edge for the plumbing. Light is obviously getting in but I doubt that's the real issue. Air rating the water and H202 and proper res temps, I would think, would combat the algae growth even with slight light penetration. So my next step is making a Heisenberg tea. Does this sound like an appropriate next step? This is my first grow. The environment is a consistent 72f - 77f with a varying RH from 40% - 50%, I've added a warm air humidifier to keep the RH up at the given levels. Using tap water that is 150ppm 7.2 @ 58f bumped up to 650 ppm. The plants seem to be happy at that dose. No other issues other than some very minor leaf problems which is probably from the PH flux.
On a side note; RH went really high when I changed the res this last time. My guess the plants were transpiring like crazy. I'm not sure if they liked the change or if they were shocked. The water was probably 10 degress warmer than they were use to, or maybe the fresh H202 got them perked up.
Thanks
But if constant rez. maintenance is not your thing, then water less, good aeration, mid 60s on temp in your rez. and I will guarantee you will have less problems.