Hey SMP, I figured they would be big, I just didn't know if they'd be overkill or what. Those totes are the only size of container I could think of that would fit the baskets I bought without spending the extra money on individual black 5gal buckets which are like 7-8$ each. So in hindsight, I spent half of that. Also, when I bought the totes, drilled the holes and etc, I thought only having 8 air stones would be nice as opposed to 15. But as Tiny said, I should put two in a tote so I didn't plan that right. But, like you said, I'm hopeful to grow trees since I've got the space to do it. Today I shined a 500W MH into a tote to check if it was light proof, its not. So it looks like good ol fashion spray paint?