First grow of '07.

I'm doing an attic grow, it's more of a crawl space fortunately I have fresh air vents in the roof so setting up some fan systems shouldn't be too hard. Unfortunately my attic isn't habitable, I had to build the floor (the floor is studs and insulation foam stuff) and am in the process of finishing construction of the walls (I'm going to use plastic white plastic sheeting wrapped in some kind of insulation (gets pretty damn cold there) and black plastic sheeting over that to light proof it.

I still need to build an actual DWC system, buy some buckets/containers (which I plan on doing after I've built everything while plants are in seedling stage). I'm thinking about using a shallow rectangle Tupperware with holes drilled for the net pots and the air valves. Any good ideas would be appreciated! For now my basic game plan is to hand water with sprayer (distilled water, but unfortunately I don't have a pH tester yet which I'm going to order from http://www.sunstoneherbals.com/digi..._water_well.htm sometime soon)
Also want to get a 8" inline fan, hygrometer (didn't have enough $ last time I went to hydro store, but there was a beauty with min/max 23$) and everything else I may need (within reason I'm not made out of money)

Supplies I've obtained:
Mylar (big ass roll)
Cal-Mag +
2' T8 fluorescents with 6500k (5.5~6k Lumens) and lamp.
Pre-owned 1,000 watt HPS (has some wiring problems though, see pics)
Net pots of various sizes.
Hydrogaurd
pH down
Premium bagseed (10-20 good quality a few runts)
Decent bagseed (20-50 good quality a few runts)
Floramicro hardwater 32 oz
Floragro 32 oz
Various sizes of rockwool.
Tarp Zipper (light tight)
Stakes and ties.
Sprayer
Superthrive
Seedling Flat.
Vornado Fan.
Big bag of 1"Airstones
Double output airpump


Schematics:
Total Room: 8'X8'X8' (slanted ceiling, I'm growing in my attic. ranges from around 5' at lowest to 10 at highest' but the area I'm using is 6'-8')
Vegetation room: 6' X 2' X 8'
Flowering Room 6X6X8

Hey whats up, you said you were looking for ideas on your hydro setup. Our system is relatively compact and uses tupperware from wal-mart. They are combined as you can see from the picture, and are joined by a fairly large water tight passive tube from one tank to the other. The two tanks together make just about 24 gallons. The other side is the same fitted connection but with a hose attached that goes up to the ebb/ flow tray. The two water basins measure approx 9" off the ground all together and are almost completely under the tray. This is a very compact setup. BTW the tray is 2'x4'. The tray drains directly into a hole we punched out of the lid of the tupperware tank. The other tank has a hole cut out as well for the cords of the water / air pumps.

NOTE If you plan on doing anything similar to this with the double water reservoir setup, you will need to make sure that the hose that connects the two tanks together is wide enough for a good volume of water to pass through! If you do not do this, the transfer of water from one tank to another will not be fast enough to keep up with the water pump.

Also, since this picture we have duct taped up the reservoirs both up completely to keep all light out (no gunk algae build-up) and also the lids but these pics give you a good idea of what its like. Good luck!