How do you oxigenate your reservoir?

[Grapefruitroop]

What up y all!

Bubbling the reservoir with an air pump and some stones 15 min prior to each watering event, yay or nay?
I also have a stirring pump that run togheter with the air pump.....

 

[microbe621]

salut: la pompe de circulation est bien, les bulleurs sont moyennement efficace, le meuilleur est la cascade

 

[Grapefruitroop]

Thanks for answering
Why do you think that the bubblers are less effective? i used to bubble up Areated Compost Tea with it and worked like a charm.....
My concern was based on some rumors that bubbling the solution will raise the ph.......ill go check tonite and update you all.....

 

[Dime]

I don't think it works to aerate the reservoir but aerating the container the plant is in does. The air just goes out of the water and back into the air but in apot the roots get it directly.JMO but I stopped doing it and it made no difference.

 

[Deleted member 542238]

I put H2O2 in all my water. Using peroxide to aerate water means adding a small amount of hydrogen peroxide to a body of water, which then breaks down into oxygen and water, effectively increasing the dissolved oxygen level in the water; this is a method sometimes used in aquariums, ponds, or well water treatment systems to boost oxygen levels when aeration is insufficient.

 

[Deleted member 542238]

I don't think it works to aerate the reservoir but aerating the container the plant is in does. The air just goes out of the water and back into the air but in apot the roots get it directly.JMO but I stopped doing it and it made no difference.

If you aerate water you will for sure raise the dissolved oxygen content of the water. Sure the air will bubble to the surface, but the water will be holding more oxygen than prior to aerating. It happens in the little world unable to be detected by the human eye. And it happens fast, faster than you can blink.

 

[Rocket Soul]

If you want oxygen dissolved in water im pretty sure its been studied: the air lift vortex method commonly used in compost tea brewing is the most effective.
But...
Roots will also draw oxygen from the air. If your pots/root development is sized so that the pot dries quick enough to water multiple times a day then every watering (and run off) means new air is drawn into the pot as the water runs off. I suggest looking into delta9s ppk concept, there are several threads, and how to eliminate the perched water table.

 

[flylowgethigh]

I use a bubbler full time. When I add water to my reservoir, I use a gallon pitcher to lift up and pour the water back in like a waterfall. Repeat several times. I only do that when I add water.

Drugstore 3% peroxide contains Mercury I have read. 35% food grade peroxide doesn’t.

 

[Ca++]

Air pump, and it works. Keeps tanks fresh for weeks, that would skin over in 48 hours without.

Your pH will probably come up quicker, but it's worth accommodating.

 

[Grapefruitroop]

Thank you all!
Yeah i checkd my ph after a couple days bubbling and circulating just for 15 min, few minutes before each watering event and it didnt creep up like the rumor said....
The probe was still reading PH 5.9

Aaaand i love to see those bubbles rockin the water!!

 

[Grapefruitroop]

I put H2O2 in all my water.

Which strenght of Hyd Per do you use? and how much of it per gallon?

 

[ledo]

Agree with Waterfall or just use pitcher & dump water back into reservoir a few times then fill it just BF watering - that’ll give you as much dissolved oxygen as anything, and it’s free…. H202 is better used in a reservoir to fend off fungal pressures than to add additional oxygen ime/o

H202 in you water does bubble up your soil nicely though, an added benefit

 

[Zeta Reticuli]

I used both aeration with aquarium pump right before watering and mixing solution with wooden stick or
bamboo pole few minutes in clockwise direction than in another direction to create vortex and to mix nutes
once again so they dont build on a bottom.

 

[flylowgethigh]

Agree with Waterfall or just use pitcher & dump water back into reservoir a few times then fill it just BF watering - that’ll give you as much dissolved oxygen as anything, and it’s free…. H202 is better used in a reservoir to fend off fungal pressures than to add additional oxygen ime/o

H202 in you water does bubble up your soil nicely though, an added benefit

That’s what I meant, just scoop up water from the rez and pour it back in.

The pH goes up from 6.4 to 7 from the air, but I just add a little orange pH down. And cal-mag, gots to have that cal mag.

 

[GreenDawn]

I use a bubbler full time. When I add water to my reservoir, I use a gallon pitcher to lift up and pour the water back in like a waterfall. Repeat several times. I only do that when I add water.

Drugstore 3% peroxide contains Mercury I have read. 35% food grade peroxide doesn’t.

buying 35% peroxide has the potential bringing you on the no flight list. and undesireable attention in plenty jurisdictions in europe at least. talking from experience. since its scheduled precursor substance.
funny enough, tiny batches and concentrations below 10% work as well, are not as strictly supervised and effectively more expensive. but worth it therefore.
its really a pitty. just to add on. its dangerous good classified for a reason.
i found myself sterilizing bucket of horseshit, growing in a stinking, burning,giant snake in my bathroom from the bucket.
sounds funny now.
just. be extra carefull. this has the potential to cos fire and is pure acidic. its syed forming organic toxins as well in the burn.

all that saying its also relative (ultimative) eco friendly.

 

[Deleted member 542238]

Which strenght of Hyd Per do you use? and how much of it per gallon?

I use 30ml of 3% peroxide per 5 gal bucket for algae control in the system. A side benefit is it gives the fungus a fight to the death, kills the fungus gnat larvae, and oxygenates the water as well.

 

[bloyd]

 

[Ca++]

I use 30ml of 3% peroxide per 5 gal bucket for algae control in the system. A side benefit is it gives the fungus a fight to the death, kills the fungus gnat larvae, and oxygenates the water as well.

That's around 35ppm. Cattle are watered with about 30ppm, give or take.

It's interesting to hear your results. I have been around 100ppm to see the plants respond well.

People seriously overlook the importance of oxygen at the root. We seem hell bent on keeping it a secret ingredient. Even seeing plants die from a lack of it, and calling it something else. Something it's not. Something that doesn't actually exist, but we openly claim it's the problem, and actually believe the non-sense we are fed when a lack of oxygen stalls and kills a crop.

 

[PlastikeRubba]

Every time I've seen a plant die from lack of oxygen, the roots smell like bleach/semen/mushrooms. It would be interesting to see how a hydro system inoculated with C4 and C6 anaerobes would hold up. BioAg has been trying to put this shit in a bottle apparently, as they sent out a lackey to the podcast circuit of drop some buzzwords a while back, but seems unqualified to even discuss the topic at a youtube stoner level.

 

[Ca++]

Every time I've seen a plant die from lack of oxygen, the roots smell like bleach/semen/mushrooms. It would be interesting to see how a hydro system inoculated with C4 and C6 anaerobes would hold up. BioAg has been trying to put this shit in a bottle apparently, as they sent out a lackey to the podcast circuit of drop some buzzwords a while back, but seems unqualified to even discuss the topic at a youtube stoner level.

Isn't this happening every day? They die, and we are thankful. Or we get that smell of death you speak of