I know we don't like to post pic's but they are worth a thousand words of help.
Anyway here goes, What you did is change the whole geometry of the DEEP WATER CULTURE system. You made it sallow, very shallow. Your plant has to be drowning, the only thing saving it is the air right under the rootball that needs air. How is the plant not sitting in water all the time. only the long roots should hang down into water. I just made the mistake of not doing what I know and it cost my bro about a 2 month set back.
LOC NAR on probation Reviewed by LOC NAR on probation on . possible overwatering? ok so my plant is showing all the signs of overwatering....sry i dont have a pic but its looks like the classic overwatered plant...it keeps slouching really badly and i dont know why, never really had it happen in hydro b4 my question is this: this time around i am running one of my dwc buckets as a sqaure tub as opposed to a 5 gallon bucket it holds 4.5 gallons of water so about the same as a 5 gallong bucket but instead of most of the volume coming from the height, like in a bucket, Rating: 5