Chicken shack rdwc madness.

[Numboard]

Or you can just use 1'' Tap Washers

They were effin expensive. dollar a piece.

 

[Numboard]

Updates:
Got veg room done
pix speak for themselves

 

[lolraymond]

Niceee. I want a setup like that.

 

[GreatLakes THC]

Nice documentation Numboard. I'm pulling up a chair.

GreatLakes THC

 

[onegreenday]

clarify your feed & drain

clarify your feed & drain

please narrate those great pictures.

don't quite understand your water flow. thanks.

 

[dupester]

Just a thought... you are gonna wish you used black tubing. algea growth comes on quick with clear stuff. only use clear for air lines

 

[Numboard]

Water flow goes like this

Gravity makes the water flow to the other buckets.
I do want to use better tubing, the pump actually has so much suction power that its flattening the tubing on the intake side. Ill get some nice black tygon or something

 

[onegreenday]

thanks numboard.
what's the seperate circuit off to the right at the top.
It looks like it's another line of the pump output?

do you plan or have make-up water for the system?

 

[Numboard]

thanks numboard.
what's the seperate circuit off to the right at the top.
It looks like it's another line of the pump output?

do you plan or have make-up water for the system?

The other stuff is the air pump. I didn't make this diagram.
Most of the credit for the design goes to "Undercurrent hydroponics"

"do you plan or have make-up water for the system?"
I don't quite understand what you are talking about here

 

[onegreenday]

I don't see a separate reservoir;
just the 7 buckets.

In other words a top-off tank to
keep the buckets filled as they draw-down nutrient.

Thanks.

 

[Numboard]

I don't see a separate reservoir;
just the 7 buckets.

In other words a top-off tank to
keep the buckets filled as they draw-down nutrient.

Thanks.

The seventh bucket that the pump empties into is the res bucket.
There wont be a plant in that one. when i get a reverse osmosis filter there will be a float valve in the 7th bucket to keep the water at the proper level
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaBsNaRjzxc
Take a look at this video. This guy is from here theres a thread on his setup somewhere round here.

 

[green_thumb...]

I think the system in that vid is a Current Culture pre made kit?

Your system is kick ass tho,i was thinking bout switchin my 4 bucket rdwc into a under current system.

could you post the parts description list for 4 buckets?

 

[Numboard]

I think the system in that vid is a Current Culture pre made kit?

Your system is kick ass tho,i was thinking bout switchin my 4 bucket rdwc into a under current system.

could you post the parts description list for 4 buckets?

Yeah I know I copied their design.
Cmon I think i supplied enough info for you to figuire out what you need for 4 buckets.
Pump, tubing, 1" pvc, some fittings. couple air stones. its not that hard. I dont remember the EXACT name for each part i used but.
If I were to re do everything I would follow this plan instead
http://icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=155064
I like his bucket passthroughs much better than mine. bigger pipe diameter between the buckets is best. My pump pumps the water too fast so the water level in the res bucket is always higher than the water in the two end buckets.

 

[onegreenday]

Water flow goes like this

Gravity makes the water flow to the other buckets.
I do want to use better tubing, the pump actually has so much suction power that its flattening the tubing on the intake side. Ill get some nice black tygon or something

Numboard, if you reverse your pump & draw from the end bucket (rez)
you'll pull more water into your pump & won't get that sucked-in hose problem;

then feed at the opposite end & you'll get more 'under-current' with the power of the pumped water; where right now you are only getting 'gravity- under-current' water through the buckets.

should give you more flow.

 

[NEARTHEBEACHBOY]

Looks like a nice setup.have you thought about insulating the walls and putting in a A/C?

 

[Numboard]

Numboard, if you reverse your pump & draw from the end bucket (rez)
you'll pull more water into your pump & won't get that sucked-in hose problem;

then feed at the opposite end & you'll get more 'under-current' with the power of the pumped water; where right now you are only getting 'gravity- under-current' water through the buckets.

should give you more flow.

Thats not how fluid dynamics work.
I will have the same amount of flow either way. There wont be more "undercurrent" flow because the first two buckets will do the same thing as the res bucket. All undercurrent flow will be gravity fed after the first two buckets.

I do have an ac unit that I can throw in there in an emergency. Don't have enough money as of now to insulate. maybe after first crop

 

[Numboard]

My ph is going crazy.
keeps wanting to get up to 7-8.
Using 3oz of flora micro bloom and veg to 35 gallons of water.
This brings the ph temporarily to about 6.4 when I come in the next day ph is around 7.5 every single time. Tried dosing some ph down to no avail. Tried a half ounce of the stuff to start. brought the ph down to like 5.5 but only for a couple hours next day its back up to 7.5~. Even with clear tap water over a day or so the ph goes up up and away!

Don't know what to do maybe someone can shed some light on this for a poor ole hydronoob

Ppm is roughly 1100 (our tap being 160) I don't know how accurate my meter is because I'm still waiting on some calibration solution. I am 100% positive our waters ppm is 160 though. (My meter reads our tap water as 260ppm) We recently had our water tested. So, I guess I'm feeding at around 840? (1100-100 for meter discrepancy = 1000. 1000-160 for ppm already in tap = 840. I think thats how it works or do you leave the ppm in the tap?)

 

[vprising909]

you shoulda saved some of that chicken shit for compost dude. budswell is 25 bucks a bag for bird/bat shit!

 

[Numboard]

you shoulda saved some of that chicken shit for compost dude. budswell is 25 bucks a bag for bird/bat shit!

It was over a year old. We just moved into this place, We never had chickens. Who knows whats in that crap. No thank you.
Still need help with ph

 

[vprising909]

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