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pinner420

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Sweet! Still, waterfalls are an excellent aerator plus they mix and recirculate the water. They also break up surface films, something airstones aren't very good at.

In this way, I only need one pump to do all water management functions in the system.
I utilize waterfall as well just haven't gotten far enough along to do more about playing with DO levels in rdwc. On the tupur front though autopots subfertigate so I'm gonna give air injection tech a whirl.
 

pinner420

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Sweet! Still, waterfalls are an excellent aerator plus they mix and recirculate the water. They also break up surface films, something airstones aren't very good at.

In this way, I only need one pump to do all water management functions in the system.
The electrolysis spooks me as to what it may do to the nutes.
 

ttystikk

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I utilize waterfall as well just haven't gotten far enough along to do more about playing with DO levels in rdwc. On the tupur front though autopots subfertigate so I'm gonna give air injection tech a whirl.
I'm sub irrigating my Tupur, and the waterfalls are working great. Not trying to argue, there's lots of ways to skin this cat.
 

pinner420

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Referring to the o2grow running a current through the solution sounds sketch; however, maybe all the chemical reactions are final enough that it only messes with the h's and o's.
 

OneHitDone

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What is very interesting is that if it is splitting the oxygen and hydrogen molecules, would the oxygen not have to be there in the first place?
Would also think it is causing evaporation at an accelerated rate but I am no chemist lol
 

ttystikk

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What is very interesting is that if it is splitting the oxygen and hydrogen molecules, would the oxygen not have to be there in the first place?
Would also think it is causing evaporation at an accelerated rate but I am no chemist lol
It's splitting WATER into oxygen and hydrogen, using electrolysis. If there's water, there's oxygen in it. This is not the same thing as oxygenated water, which is where the little unit comes in. It uses electricity to split the water molecule, freeing oxygen to then oxygenate the liquid water. The difference is that in the water molecule the oxygen is chemically bound to the hydrogen, whereas dissolved oxygen in solution refers to a different process. It's this second process that governs roots and fish getting oxygen from the water.

Important safety tip; Don't use electrolysis in a tightly sealed space with any potential for an electric spark, lol
 
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