changing water dwc resevoir

[bowl]

Anyone got any ideas for changing water in a 30 gallon dwc bubbler tub?....do you know of any modifications to the tub i can make?Any / all advice / ideas are appreciated...thanks.:stoned:

[rhizome]

Pick up a cheap pump that can be set up as an inline- run intake hose to bottom of tub, output to drain or bucket.

Next time you don't have any plants in it, pick up a bulkhead fitting and mount it as low as you can in the tub. Stick on a couple feet of clear tubing, and you have a drain- and a handy way to check nute level!

[xcrispi]

I to do as Rhiz. says sorta .
I have a valve in the tube out the bottom of my res. and I run the tube down a floordrain and don't need a pump gravity is our friend . :thumbsup:
Crispi :jointsmile:

[oldsanclem]

I just put water hose adapor on the hose and put it on plants in the yard. Its not fast. But the plants will love you for it , lemons the size of grapefruit, limes the size of lemons. Roses love the stuff also, just do not over do it.

[olliegrow]

just get some type of clean hose and put one end in the resevoir and the other in a huge bucket and dump outside...

[Alaric]

If you don't want to add fittings as suggested (fear of leaks)-----then just drop a submergable pump in the bubbler with a hose attached it. Run hose to drain or whatever.

A~

[LOC NAR on probation]

If your near a boat shop or tackle shop you can use a bilge pump. MY bro has got a hand bige pump and we used a hole saw 2 1/2 inches and drilled a hole in the plastic top of rez. We got a 4 inch long piece of 2 inch pvc and an end cap to set in the hole to keep light and shit out. Works great, fills a five gallon bucket in a minute.

[palerider7777]

depends on where ur set up is if u were in a shed or something. u could drill a hole in the wall and install a 3/4 inch pipe as close to ur dwc as poss. and then get a 3/4 inch threaded piece to thread in a 3/4 inch adptor that u hook ur black tubing to. cut the tubing to length to be long enough to make it to the bottem of ur res. then u hook the tube to the water pump. drop it into the res and plug it in and presto out side it goes. now on the out side what i did was dug down around 2 feet and put in about a half ft of pea rock or any rock or the black tubes with hole in it would do.

then where the pipe comes out of the wall u put an elbow going down and put the length u need on it where it's going down to the rock. and then elbow on that and put a piece about a ft or so so it won't drain right next to the building. then fill in the hole and no more buckets and no more hassle. or if u want like i did run a line under ground to your garden but u would still have to do the same from above with the rocks and stuff to drain proper.and u might want to install the clamp over the pipe to make it snug to the wall

[Weedhound]

never mind....