GH WATERFARM USERS: SIMPLE RECIRCULATING SYSTEM

[Thuwadpumper]

I think you're right. Going with the attitude of setting up just what i wanted at the time has kinda put me in this mess. If I have a bigger res. I can always add if needed although I'm fairly limited in my overall space. 40 buckets OMG, if only I had that much room. 6 to 8 is going to be tough probably! I was just thinking their kit is a 13 gallon and an 8 gallon so that's only 21 gallons total. But if I get one 30 gallon or so, I can do without the other. The good thing is it's right in my laundry room so I have a tub for draining filling, so thanks for that idea, I can rig a hose to have right beside it or something. OK, I'm going for it dude! You convinced me. Check out Ropakcorp.com buckets look the same huh, I'm thinking of doing a square 5 gallon and 3 gallon insert and I bet having deeper buckets, more root space etc. could be helpful! All of this stuff is really pretty easy to duplicate if you get creative huh! Thanks alot man. Good friends are hard to come by!

[Thuwadpumper]

OK, NowI went and gone and done it! I did a mock run by drilling holes in wf modules and set up a couple of air pumps I had because I can't really do in the room, for obvious reasons. I also only did three because right now that's all I have that aren't being used and wouldn't affect things. Here's some questions for you and hopefully I've done it right but there's some things I'm noticing. My first bucket has too much water in it. The others are fine. The tube that gets the air pump connected (circulating) the wider one makes girgle noises is that normal?If I dump some out of my res will that help?

[Thuwadpumper]

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[Thuwadpumper]

Just out of curiosity have you or anyone you know made a third hole to put the blue air tube with the fill line back on the WF modules? I was thinking about trying but just wanted to put out some feelers? I put a hold on my res for one, it's the third hole on the pic. I might use it to feed a 1/4" air pump tube to air stone or something inside of the res. Have a good one!

[Weedhound]

where's the airpump that goes to the drip inside? Do all your individual w/fs have both and inlet and outlet holes; (ie: front and back) because all four of them should be the exact same water level. They are all sitting at same level on the ground correct? And is your first waterfarm hooked up outside with the drip inside on the other side of the same connector as your first water farm. I can't tell from your photo; can you take a pic of all the tubing connections: especially to and from the res and what exactly is your tubing connected to.

[Thuwadpumper]

OK, some of my tubing is clear so it's prob. hard to see. My hydro store didn't have the multi port so i'm using a bunch of to ports until it's in. I have the tube going to drip in the res. and then each wf module has an air tube as well, two of them are green. Once I dumped some water out it seemed to maintain. I'm going to add the other buckets just want to make sure it's working. I also put one of the blue tubes w/fill line on the back side of the res. Don't know if I need to but I might feed an air pump tube to an air stone inside. Here's some more pics. Let me know if this helps. Thanks hound for all the help and time you're taking.

[Weedhound]

Hey, no worries; glad to help. It DOES look like you've got it there........yes all buckets should remain atthe same level at all times. (including the res) and looks to me like you are set to go and you did a good job building it as well. Mine lacks the loop yours has to keep it in place so sometimes it becomes detached and just floats around the res spitting out water.......

[Thuwadpumper]

Thanks for checking everything out. I'm going to move everything in and add the other buckets. Just wanted to do the mock run and check it out first. Hae you ever tried drilling a third hole to add the blue air tube back onto the waterfarm modules? I wonder if it would help? They have them when they run independantly? Thanks again man!

[Thuwadpumper]

OK, so I finally went ahead and did the whole thing with six waterfarms, moved everything in and just relocated the res to where I needed it and drilled some holes so I could feed the 1/2" tubing into my space and I'm not real sure it it's truely circulating. I set my ph 5.8 and about 400 ppm and then by the next morning every waterfarm module was waaaaaaay high and way different than the res. It's only been two days but if this isn't really recirculating I'm going to freak! I reset the ph and everything again but man! Weedhound do you ever test your individual waterfarm modules as well just to see? I'm thinking about taking everything out and run some clear water with food coloring in it to see if it pulls through each module. Alright dude, later. Hope everything is good with you.

[Weedhound]

You may need a stronger pump. I have hooked up no more than three together but they were actually a res and several five gallon buckets........larger but exact same idea. And yes, I've checked (my last batch ran into two livestock tubs holding about 7 gals apiece plus the res and things worked) .......all ph's were within .2 of each other. You might need more power for a larger setup air pump wise.

good luck.