30 gallon reservior - cheap de-algae mix?

MMJ Dreaming 99

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Two garbage cans. One straight RO water, the second for nightly nute mix w RO water. A cap full of bleach once a week? Buy bag of pool shock and half a teaspoon? I clean the nute can once a week. The clear water one not as much.
 

ANC

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Oh, I thought you wanted to clean in between water changes.
In aquariums, you simply drop the water level to expose the algae and spray on some peroxide to kill it.
You should kill most stuff in the water if you put about 5ppm ammonia in, that is enough to even kill off nitrifying bacteria.


3% of 25 is 3/4, you can get cheap peroxide in large volumes at the pool store. Great for zapping a black pool back to blue.

I run drain to waste, but if I were to do a reservoir. I would add a simple aquarium sponge filter or one of those box type filter that use cotton wool like floss. This would keep the reservoir oxygenated and round op some of the excess ammonia. Algae can not exist without ammonia as a food source. The spore has no mechanism to absorb nitrates other than eating ammonia.
 
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MMJ Dreaming 99

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Oh, I thought you wanted to clean in between water changes.
In aquariums, you simply drop the water level to expose the algae and spray on some peroxide to kill it.
You should kill most stuff in the water if you put about 5ppm ammonia in, that is enough to even kill off nitrifying bacteria.


3% of 25 is 3/4, you can get cheap peroxide in large volumes at the pool store. Great for zapping a black pool back to blue.

I run drain to waste, but if I were to do a reservoir. I would add a simple aquarium sponge filter or one of those box type filter that use cotton wool like floss. This would keep the reservoir oxygenated and round op some of the excess ammonia. Algae can not exist without ammonia as a food source. The spore has no mechanism to absorb nitrates other than eating ammonia.

Thanks. I have as big bubbler that runs about 12 hour on and hour off.
 

ANC

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The bacteria that do the cleanup work is aerobic, Better to run the air permanently.
Swapping the airstone out for an air driven filter would be a cheap upgrade.
 

MMJ Dreaming 99

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pool shock is what i use. 0.30 grams per 10 gallons for 3ppm chlorine. my res temps are grow room temps 85F..


0.10 grams per 10 gallons is 1 ppm chlorine. i run at 3ppm since my res temps are grow room temps 85F to 90F.
1 to 5ppm is safe.
Thanks man. Anyway to get you rez temps down? I know plants or roots do not like water too cold. Not sure about too hot??
 

rkymtnman

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Thanks man. Anyway to get you rez temps down? I know plants or roots do not like water too cold. Not sure about too hot??
not really. i do hempy buckets so it's passive hydro. my res water isn't that hot, the res is outside the grow room.

if you do go the pool shock route, you'll need a fairly accurate scale.
 
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