[kal el]

Originally Posted by Teh_Baker

Kal, you said that you were in the desert. It may be dry, but those microbes are still floating around in the air. Talk to people at local pet stores about how long to let a fish tank acclimate before buying new fish. The properties are the same, and big toke talked about that in his thread on bio buckets. Several of the bacteria are the same. It looks like you already have a great start going. I would have just left my system running for 2-3 weeks to start that bacteria, instead of 1...

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Thanks. It colonized well with the tea. It may be in the air here, but it may be in smaller amounts. I ran a system for 4 weeks and ended up getting brown algae.

[Teh_Baker]

Hmmm algae is not good...

[kal el]

3 weeks in, happy plants. They have been topped multiple times. They are vegging under t5.
I don't measure ppm or ph because I have no meters. The plants are happy and that works for me.

[kal el]

4.5 weeks.
Flipping to 12 12 this weekend.

[Teh_Baker]

Looking good kal! Looks like you've topped then a couple times too. I see a few growth tips for each plant. They have a nice green color!
I know you dont have meters, what are you feeding them?

[kal el]

I'm trying a Mills nutrients sample box. Mills pays the bills.

[Robbie Nood]

Is there anything physically different between this system and a standard UC design that makes it a hybird of Bio-Bucket and UC, like the addition of bio-filtration?

Or is it the addition of bene's thats the difference?

Peace
BL

[GSPfan]

Do you put your rez in a hole? How do you achieve a waterfall with the return so low?

[kal el]

Originally Posted by Robbie Nood

Is there anything physically different between this system and a standard UC design that makes it a hybird of Bio-Bucket and UC, like the addition of bio-filtration?

Or is it the addition of bene's thats the difference?

Peace
BL

The design was similar to the uc. I keep my net pots fully submerged and filled with lava rocks to support microbes, bacteria and enzymes. My rez is set up different too. My return pump goes directly into the chiller and then back to rez, eliminating a second pump.

Originally Posted by GSPfan

Do you put your rez in a hole? How do you achieve a waterfall with the return so low?

My waterfall effect is achieved by pump it to the chiller from the return line. The return hose hangs high enough for waterfall.

[kal el]

Reservoir leaked so I built a new design, I love it.