Grow Mediums Do you use a pump in your reservoir?

[the123321]

Do you use a pump in your reservoir to move the water around in the reservoir? I use tap water only with ascorbic acid vitamin c powder to remove the chlorine or chloramine in the tap water so I do not have nutrients to mix around in the reservoir. Would you recommend a pump or would stirring the water around 1 time per day be enough or is that even needed with tap water only in the reservoir for it on there?

 

[xyberg]

I don't use one in my reservoir because it makes the pH drift. I do use the airdomes and figure that the water is getting a bit of aeration from that. My purpose for moving over to the AutoPot system from my bubble buckets was to get rid of some of the maintenance with pH being a massive one. I have also not noticed any real detrimental effects on my plants. My Strawberry Nuggets in an AutoPot is actually bigger than a CremeTasmo in a bubble bucket, and generally when running those two strains side by side the CT dwarfs the SN. However, I did notice that if I used algae extract in powder form it would precipitate out of the water and simply coat the bottom of the res so it required a daily stir. Since then I have swapped over to liquid Floralicious Plus and all has been well since I can only get to my girls about every 3 days.

In the future, I may try one 4 pot system with an air stone in a res and one without to see if there is any noticeable difference but for now I am happy with the simplicity of the system.

 

[GolfnRL]

Do you use a pump in your reservoir to move the water around in the reservoir? I use tap water only with ascorbic acid vitamin c powder to remove the chlorine or chloramine in the tap water so I do not have nutrients to mix around in the reservoir. Would you recommend a pump or would stirring the water around 1 time per day be enough or is that even needed with tap water only in the reservoir for it on there?

You could probably get away with stirring the water around once per day. I have a small aquarium pump in my rez to move the water around. It's on a timer to operate four times in a 24 hr period for 15 mins each time. The pump is better because an air stone will make the PH unstable. I use tap water that has been filtered through a Blue Boogie filter. The filtered water PH is usually 7.4 - 7.8 range. I lower to 5.9. it rarely moves from that mark with the pump in the rez. With an air stone the PH went up and down, mostly up.

 

[St. Tom]

ive used a small pump when i was using remo newts and my ph stayed stable but my new notes emerald harvest if i used the pump it would send my ph up daily so now i just stir it once or twice daily now so it shows some nutes behave better

 

[the123321]

Thanks.

 

[GolfnRL]

I have a small aquarium pump that runs 24/7 in the rez. Couldn't control the PH with an airstone. I had the pump set to run 4 times a day for 15 mins each time. But that wasn't enough to keep the PH in line.

 

[Bob's Auto's]

I use a microbubbler connected to an airpump. Keeps everything well airated and moving constantly.

 

[the123321]

Thanks.

 

[big moe]

I use a waterfall setup. I have a pump in bottom reservoir that pumps into the top reservoir a overflow pipe brings it back the the bottom reservoir

 

[Olderfart]

I don't use a pump or air bubbler. A stir once in a while is it. With fully soluble nutes I think that is all that is required. I do check pH, and it sometimes drifts a bit, usually up in my experience.