Here are some updated pics. I added an air pump and air wand to my setup as you can see, the pump/wand are for a 15 gallon fish tank, so the wand wraps around the bottom of my 1 gallon res two times and the res is filled with tiny air bubbles all day. Total cost was just over $20 at petco (prob could have gotten cheaper at walmart i think) but it's more than worth the money I paid. I have had the wand in there for three days and already there is an amazing difference. The roots have gone from brown patchy dry spots to almost pink and covered in bubbles. and my plants have grown a lot over the last three days. a few leaves of my tallest plant actually hit the CFLs (see pics) and have a few brown burned spots, so I had to get creative with my light placement. my HID should be here today, so next post hopefully I will be reporting some bigger better changes..

I am assuming I should run this pump/wand 24 hrs? or should I keep it on with the lights only?

enjoy the pics...