Quote Originally Posted by herbie the love bud

You can do DWC in your ebb and flow tray even. You buy a lid and drill holes the size of net pots in the lid and place your plants inside with hydroton. So you don't NEED to do it in buckets, that's your call. Buckets may make it a little more efficient use of nutrients and dissolved oxygen, that's all..
Wicked PITA to maintain o2 sat in a container that shallow using airstones- ya pretty much gotta use a tower if yer gonna use that shape.

Theoretically possible, practically a clusterf*ck.

Just sayin'.