I'm debating on what sorta system to make now that the room is completed (well close enough)

I'm planning another aero system...a multibucket...maybe a horizontal pvc tube kind or simply a rubbermaid tub setup...although the rubbermaid would probably hold 2 plants max and even then they'd be pretty close together

I'm leaning toward something kinda like a waterfarm with a seperate res and like nine 5 gallon paint buckets 3 rows of 3...I figured I could raise the buckets a few inches off the ground and have a return drain but once I thought of that it raised a bunch of questions...How to gauge pump gph for the setup...What sorta piping configuration to keep waterpressure at the nozzles even throughout(does that even matter? And especially making the seals where the supply/return pipes enter/exit the bucket as well as the connection to the pump(s)...spray painting the buckets...ability to disassemble or remove buckets not in use or do maintenance on a plant etc

I kinda had this idea that if I could get the bucket design setup with 2 threaded ends sticking out the bottom...one to connect the drain and one to connect the supply(it would let me make 9 buckets the same and just get flex lines to supply the water and drain and screw them on when in use and plug shut when not...I went looking for pvc that would have like rubber washers on either end so I could just cut a hole with a drill and screw press the seal on both but had no luck

The nice thing about the waterfarm pipes is that it looks like the lines are all bendy ehh suppose I have lots more supplies to lookup before I can start buildin

Ohhh and where I live we are in like the top 10 in the country in like every bad category...murder...crime...high school dropouts...drugs etc so I figured the seed just fell out a bag when someone was rollin up in the parking lot...although now you got me checking the windows ever 5 minutes hehe