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I built myself a new veg room/grow lab.
It's roughly 10x10x6'.
I'm running a 600w digilux mh bulb in an adjustable phantom ballast, and some t5s.
I have a 50 gallon acrylic fish tank with 7 or 8 bluegill, just a few months old.
The aquarium water drains to a general hydroponics panda reservoir converted into a 2x4' grow bed filled with hydrocorn.
An auto siphon fills and drains the bed several times an hour into a sump tank, which contains the pump.
The 800gph pump, which is kinda overkill, pumps the water in the sump up to T above the fish tank. Here, two valves control the flow rate into either the fish tank, or through a heath Robinson inspired high-flow hydroponic cloner loop which aerates the water before returning it to the sump tank.
The clear tubing and valve are an anti siphon I have attached to another small pump, also in the sump tank, that runs water to c frame nursery sprayers i can stake into vegging plants.
![ImageUploadedByTapatalk1368284136.546408.jpg ImageUploadedByTapatalk1368284136.546408.jpg](https://www.icmag.com/data/attachments/175/175695-fd71fc12bf8db5231be2e8d38987cef9.jpg)
It's roughly 10x10x6'.
![ImageUploadedByTapatalk1368284538.279430.jpg ImageUploadedByTapatalk1368284538.279430.jpg](https://www.icmag.com/data/attachments/175/175739-ea37aa6d6fd1fac6ec24b659eff93864.jpg)
![ImageUploadedByTapatalk1368284574.062208.jpg ImageUploadedByTapatalk1368284574.062208.jpg](https://www.icmag.com/data/attachments/175/175788-fc9f1a979f9846cb26ae49d081d30ad8.jpg)
I'm running a 600w digilux mh bulb in an adjustable phantom ballast, and some t5s.
I have a 50 gallon acrylic fish tank with 7 or 8 bluegill, just a few months old.
![ImageUploadedByTapatalk1368284963.733433.jpg ImageUploadedByTapatalk1368284963.733433.jpg](https://www.icmag.com/data/attachments/175/175812-2081dee779375e36422692883be3cefc.jpg)
![ImageUploadedByTapatalk1368284980.591888.jpg ImageUploadedByTapatalk1368284980.591888.jpg](https://www.icmag.com/data/attachments/175/175828-b69e56d189a47a99f88a0bdee6b35742.jpg)
The aquarium water drains to a general hydroponics panda reservoir converted into a 2x4' grow bed filled with hydrocorn.
![ImageUploadedByTapatalk1368285018.307222.jpg ImageUploadedByTapatalk1368285018.307222.jpg](https://www.icmag.com/data/attachments/175/175839-266af2365f07805b2252b8d782733d75.jpg)
![ImageUploadedByTapatalk1368285033.226808.jpg ImageUploadedByTapatalk1368285033.226808.jpg](https://www.icmag.com/data/attachments/175/175851-6aab0ee6c9b8775328a4b75498338e98.jpg)
An auto siphon fills and drains the bed several times an hour into a sump tank, which contains the pump.
![ImageUploadedByTapatalk1368285045.617460.jpg ImageUploadedByTapatalk1368285045.617460.jpg](https://www.icmag.com/data/attachments/175/175866-735c7b169f45469b8a78ddf3a62ca0a8.jpg)
The 800gph pump, which is kinda overkill, pumps the water in the sump up to T above the fish tank. Here, two valves control the flow rate into either the fish tank, or through a heath Robinson inspired high-flow hydroponic cloner loop which aerates the water before returning it to the sump tank.
![ImageUploadedByTapatalk1368285373.521916.jpg ImageUploadedByTapatalk1368285373.521916.jpg](https://www.icmag.com/data/attachments/175/175955-655f02a05c7c2bcdc6303d5a1cf7e2d0.jpg)
![ImageUploadedByTapatalk1368285393.391382.jpg ImageUploadedByTapatalk1368285393.391382.jpg](https://www.icmag.com/data/attachments/175/175969-dcdf6494229df0d04ef1da4c28446744.jpg)
The clear tubing and valve are an anti siphon I have attached to another small pump, also in the sump tank, that runs water to c frame nursery sprayers i can stake into vegging plants.