Submersible pump Question

Boris Sputnik

Boris Sputnik

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Hi all !

I have one twenty (aprox.) gallon container to flower 4 plants , It's 20" in diameter and 12" high.
I set it up as DWC with two dual air pumps and each flower its bubble stone . I Amazon I saw a 80 gph submersible pump .
Question is : Can I put one pump like this in the container to create a water movement t ?
Can those 20$ little thing do the trick ?

Thank you !
 
b4ds33d

b4ds33d

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i don't think i'd use a submersible in the same container as there will be a lot of roots that will clog your pump. you just have to be very careful to implement some sort of way to keep that from happening.
 
rkymtnman

rkymtnman

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Boris Sputnik said:
Hi all !

I have one twenty (aprox.) gallon container to flower 4 plants , It's 20" in diameter and 12" high.
I set it up as DWC with two dual air pumps and each flower its bubble stone . I Amazon I saw a 80 gph submersible pump .
Question is : Can I put one pump like this in the container to create a water movement t ?
Can those 20$ little thing do the trick ?

Thank you !
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sure it will work fine. pick yourself up an aquarium filter bag to put the pump in. will keep any big stuff from getting in the pump.
 
rkymtnman

rkymtnman

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you could do away with the airstones and airpump and just make a waterfall instead too. waterfalls create more dissolved O2 than airstones. a few plastic elbows and some tubing and the pump.
 
Alaric

Alaric

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Inline pump is the better option because:

1) Less heating of the nutes.

2) makes is much easier to flush / reload nutes.

3) like r m m suggested-----waterfall.

A~~~
 
b4ds33d

b4ds33d

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as far as a waterfall, would it be a good idea to have your inline pressurize the system and the return loop when it feeds back to the res have it elevated to create the waterfall? just make it part of your loop?
 
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Alaric

Alaric

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b4ds33d said:
as far as a waterfall, would it be a good idea to have your inline pressurize the system and the return loop when it feeds back to the res have it elevated to create the waterfall? just make it part of your loop?
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Sure, that would work but at vertical height expense.

The pump will pressurize the feed lines-----if large enough (I have my doubts about a $20 pump).

Here's a pic of one of my designs.

hangingtubes.jpg
 
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